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Effective curriculum ideas for integrating ICT

Australian Curriculum lesson plans

"Australian Curriculum Lessons is a site designed for educators in Australia. We are a user-submitted site who depend on teachers to post their great lessons so that other teachers can get ideas and lessons to use in the classroom."

A large collection of - apparently - lesson "plans" organised against the Australian Curriuclum. The site is implemented using a blog (Wordpress I think) and generates an RSS feed.

iphone, ipod ACARA app 

I Loved this image as it shows just how interconnected the subject areas across the curriculum can be in real life. It pays to remember this as we strive to plan our lessons.

This could be useful for our assignments.

This website is extremely useful, I have just bookmarked the 'About' page as it had a quote that I wished to highlight - This site was founded to assist elementary and middle school teachers in integrating technology into the curriculum. I think that I will be using this website in years to come.

A MOOC running in March intended to provide an introduction to Digital Technologies as part of the new Australian Curriculum learning area. Not directly connected to ICTs and Pedagogy, but a close relation.

This is from a modern theorist referenced in the Australian Curriculum. I have not finished the article yet but sharing as it has some great information for assignment 1

Thanks for sharing the resource. It clarifies key stakeholders' perspectives regarding ICT skills and the (in-)assessability of such through current testing options. Although Dede expresses cautious cynicism over the self serving nature behind each stakeholder contribution, it does indicate shared emphasis upon the importance of ICTs for the development of transferrable life skills which are reflected in the Australian Curriculum's General Capabilities. As with anything in the curriculum, interpretation of how these capabilities should be taught and assessed is subjective. Be it an impossible task or not, the key edict seems to be that educators are to provide integrated ICT/core content learning episodes that allow learners to develop universally current skills in personally authentic contexts but to also alert the learner to the transferable use of such skills for a global context.

Free teaching Resources for teaching all learning areas of the Australian Curriculum

Google's curriculum on understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship

Based on the Oz curriculum.

Here's the HPE curriculum draft (Dec 2012). I just read the ICT implementation and I found it helpful in consolidating the ideas and resources I've come across. It's so important to teach children to question information they find on the net for its validity and reliablity, for the benefit of their long term health and wellbeing.

A great site for Early Childhood interactive games over a wide range of curriculum domains.  Yes it does cost but have a go at the free trial and see what you think.

from W.A Department Of Education