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A project from an English newspaper's online presence gathering contributions to the question "What has technology enabled you to do?" Not directly learning and teaching related, but interesting.  Perhaps as a project for students?

After completing week ten activities, I recogised some important points to focus on for 'Part B' of our third assignment. Teachers who integrate ICT aiming to enhance student learning need to utilise their preparation and planning carefully. This process requires knowledge to ensure high quality teaching standards are being implemented.

make my photos look a 100 years older

Given students' preconceptions of history as fixed information, cultivating students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking is foundational to advancing their disciplinary understanding. This study examines the ways in which preservice history teachers construct tasks that demand students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking and attend to such thinking in their field placements while being taught to do so in their methods courses. Analysis of methods course assignments, student teaching observations, and assessments of candidates' disciplinary knowledge led to the construction of three cases of novice teachers' efforts to teach these ways of thinking to their students. The one novice who attended to her students' interpretive and evidentiary thinking translated her disciplinary knowledge into lessons that involved analysis of text in developing interpretations and gave general prompts to provide evidence in support of students' conclusions. This study highlights the role of preservice teachers' disciplinary understanding and pedagogical content knowledge in developing students' interpretive and evidentiary thinking in history classrooms.

Assignment 2 - peruse for ideas

A summary of work done by a World Bank supported group. Attempts to summarise what is known about the use of ICT in education -- original shared by Lisa Stewart

what do we know about successful pedagogical strategies?

This is kathleen Morris and her blog page is about how to incorporate blogging into her grade 4 classroom. Even though Kathleen is on maternity leave I believe the information posted in 2013 is relevant to my assignment reasons. Another note Kathleen was a team teaching partner to Kelly Jordan who has launched her own blog this year.

For those who are interested in integrating blogging into the classroom and other technologies

A teacher currently on maternity leave, using social media to keep up to date with the current education, teaching and learning trends. Dedicated teacher to be ensuring she doesn't lose skill or ability when it's time to return.

Group resource we can all add to and share. Cut and paste this link to edit: https://docs.google.com/a/umail.usq.edu.au/document/d/1tOXQtnq5NGbwapfbwew50V ewYBBZm21HY6hDK9JDijI/edit?usp=sharing

Group resource we can all add to and share. https://docs.google.com/a/umail.usq.edu.au/document/d/1tOXQtnq5NGbwapfbwew50VewYBBZm21HY6hDK9JDijI/edit?usp=sharing

This is an interactive software program that facilitates for visual comprehension of the moving arrangements, sizes, distances and scale of the Earth and other planets within our Solar System.

A brief summary of my unit plans- activity from EDC3100 study desk

Advantages There is a reason that many people are attracted to wikis for learning. Wikis can be private or public. You can get wiki software at no cost or at a very low cost. They only require basic programming skills for installation, setup and maintenance. Contributors create content independently of each other, so that multiple people can be working on the site at the same time. Wikis can be applied to just about any content area. Users find them easy to search and navigate.

I'm planning on integrating the use of a wiki into my unit plan for assignment 2. I remember teaching myself and creating one a few years back and loved it! I think it's a great tool.

Reasons for using ICTs.

Fantastic resource for assignment 1. Nice work Angela.

So holidays are finished and I am not on the computer as much and actually feel better for it. I think I need that breathing space of work and study so I stop reading so much into everything.

Assignment 2 is all about constructing a unit plan. My next prac will be in a year 5/6 composite class and I thought it would be a good idea to focus on year 5 English and use the Learning Place to see where the students will be at so that I can focus on that area.

A few pages talking about higher order thinking, what it is and how it can be encouraged.