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Journal article about Connectivism (may be useful for Assignment 3 part B)

A science project by a 12 year-old enabled by a range of ICTs.  But do you know why the project's title is a little misleading?

A 2009 blog post from a NSW teacher about setting up a school Internet radio station. Includes some ideas for how this could be used. Involves aspects of recording information, distributing it and creating it (amongst others).

A blog post that describes the process for creating a music video parody reflecting on how digital technology has changed us. Cool tools used, a description of the process and a great end result.

A project that gathered audio of people speaking one of two texts. The audio has been combined with a Google map to show the location of the voice. You can traverse the map, select a voice and listen to it. Shows how ICTs can be used to gather and store information. And then be used to manipulate it (to present a map interface) to allow distribution.

Hi all - this blog has been created by an Australian teacher, she has compiled a list of other Aussie teachers and some of the creativity that these guys have is amazing. While a lot is to do with the younger years and not a lot of ICTs, it's a great way to share creative ideas to keep children engaged. I thought it was worth the mention!

I often get emails asking if I know of other Aussie blogs. I know how hard it can be to find them - when I started my blog, I couldn't really find any other Aussies at all! I called my blog Down Under Teacher in the hope that I would connect with other Aussies.

A blog set up to link and share ideas for Australian teachers.

In the 3 pracs that I have undertaken so far, this is the image the best describes the learning, at least from the teaching perspective that I have found. Most classes have involved the teacher standing up the front, initiating the learning, the discussion or the activity. they often use a whiteboard or more commonly a power-point presentation. This just looks like a classroom that I have been a part of.

A collection of different ways to use a data projector connected to a computer - the focus being on thinking about the activities that connect with what is being taught.

A call for volunteers to act as mentors for a small group of students - from many participating in a student blogging challenge - for 10 weeks from October to December.

Great post that talks about the learning enabled through Minecraft that moves beyond using it to build something related to a curriculum. Also a good illustration of using a theory to make an argument about why you might use an ICT to enhance/transform student learning. Perhaps not directly applicable to a class setting due to the constraints of the current education system, but useful for expanding your concepts of ICTs and their impact on learning (as opposed to education).

AN interactive Periodic table produced be a TED project. Click on the element in the table and access a video. Dig a little deeper and there's a "lesson" for each element

Good post from a student on the definition and importance of essential questions. Includes a good collection of pointers to resources about essential questions

Possibly one of the biggest hurdles we will encounter as educators - shorter attention spans and limited patience for learning. 

Another story about a US-based student's science fair project that uses ICTs. Not as visually appealing as the Hello Kitty video, however, this example does show the use of commercial software as a tool in a science investigation. It also shows how the results of this science investigation was later published in a Journal set up specifically for publish work produced by school students.

A teachers blog about her life as a teacher. It's quite humorous and she talks about the life of a teacher from a great perspective. 

A blog post describing how Twitter is used in a primary classroom with 6 and 7 year old learners.

People from across the world share photos of what's in their fridge. I wonder what a resource/project like this could be used for in a class setting? How might it be modified? e.g. the article has a link to projects like "What the world eats in a day" and "What kids eat for breakfast"

Well this made me smile how people let the world into their refrigerators! However when I think about the class setting you could use it to investigate where products originate and the process they go through before they arrive in our refrigerators.

. The opening statement of this Education Technology Debate was titled "Is ICT in education a revolution or a fool's errand?". This is a puzzling question. Over the last decades, there have been many studies on the introduction of ICT in education. So why is it that we can still have a debate about the…

This is a research article regarding pre-service educator training in integrating ICTs in Early Childhood Education.

'It is also disconcerting that some children still do not have access to computers at home and therefore do not have the opportunity of developing the skills my grandson and other 'digitals in diapers' like him take for granted - skills such as using a mouse, finding letters and numerals on a keyboard or screen, typing letters, navigating websites, retrieving files, using pull-down menus, loading CDs and DVDs, uploading photos from a digital camera, using toolbars, saving files, printing documents and files, using drawing software and typing words (Zevenbergen & Logan, 2008, p. 42). Although some of these skills are used for playing games, this is still an impressive array of digital literacy skills, even more so when they have been acquired more through independent learning and experimentation than through an adult providing instruction.' On the above I would like to add that children should learn or use skills in order to play. Children learn through play and this is a concepts that underpins learning in the early years

"Project 252 is a crowdsourcing project that will run during 2015. Every 2 weeks for the 52 weeks of the year (hence 252) we will focus on one letter of the alphabet (starting with A and going through to Z). For the two weeks that each letter is featured, participants will be invited to submit the details of an EdTech Tool (for instance, an app, Web 2.0 service, software package, etc.) that begins with that letter. All submissions will be compiled into an A-Z Directory of EdTech Tools that is searchable by a number of criteria. "