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I caught this last night on ABC program Big Ideas. It is from the Melbourne 2013 Creative Innovations conference and is of Stephen Heppell talking about changing the way we teach and learn. Most of the videos from the conference are available to watch and I'd recommend trying to see at least the 'education' related ones.

An online/virtual conference about virtual worlds in education. Held March 16-17 i.e. starting Friday.

Teachers Conference: Learning About ICTs

From the site MathPickle was founded in 2010 to inject new ideas into the classroom. It is the driving force to get curricular unsolved problems into classrooms worldwide - one for each grade K-12. A conference in November 2013 established the thirteen unsolved problems. Aimed to solve this problem Whenever an elementary school teacher wants to teach addition, she will invariably face 20% of students who already know how to add and another 20% who are struggling with last year's curriculum. How can she engage the top students without losing the bottom students? How can she engage the bottom students without boring the top students?

A PD opportunity as part of preparation for ACEC (Australian Computers in Education Conference) and ACEC unplugged.

"This section contains special events, festivals, conferences, education days/weeks and, from time to time, you will find competitions and notification of new education initiatives and programs."

"Pre Service Teacher EdFest is a free national virtual conference which will be filmed and the live streamed right here from 11:00am-2:00pm AEST on July 30th. No registration is required to be part of the event, simply tune in below. We welcome your ideas and questions leading up to and during the event via twitter and the #PSTEdFest tag (shown at right of screen)."

Comparing Computer based learning needs of Primary and Early Years.

Joanne Dwyer (2004) writes that some schools seem to give its students in the upper primary years priority over students in the early school years resulting in a reduced potential for learning with computer based technologies in the school environment. She expresses the concern that for equitability all students regardless of age or learning needs should be given maximum support and access to computer-based learning environments. This is obviously an issue that needs to be addressed as we intergrate ICT in to the curriculum. Nice read Kate. Thanks.

Unfortunately early years education often takes a back burner to higher levels of primary education across a range of areas and especially with regard to ICT. I am not sure whether it is a lack of understanding of the importance of early childhood education or just battling to get resources. Even with all of the research about the advantages of good quality early childhood education many still see these years as not containing any 'real' learning, just play. If young learners are viewed as 'just playing' then why would people use ICT budgets on them? As early years teachers one of our biggest battles will be to fight for recognition of early childhood education and the resources to support it.

Tony Ryan is a consultant and writer, and offers professional support to educational and corporate organisations throughout the world on issues such as innovative thinking and future-proofing. He has presented over 1500 keynotes and workshops at state, national and world conferences in the past 15 years.

Free web conference tool. I haven't trialed it yet with other people but it looks pretty simple to use and it's free.

This weeks task on EDC3100 involving The Decoding Learning report gave me some inspiration about my reasons for using ICT... Creativity in my drama class is something that ICTs will definitely help with I think. This link shows the relationship between ICT and inspiring creative thinking. Uni computers wont allow me to use my diigo toolbar on this piece so I cannot make highlights or annotations unfortunately.

Hello my name is Stephanie and I'm an iphone addict. I use my iphone in conferences, in meetings and *gasp* even in the classroom but I'm not using it to play angry birds. Here's 10 ways I use my iphone to make my teaching more effective: 1.

This Blog argues against the need to teach 21st century skills. It's a little controversial, what do you think?