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djplaner

5 Opportunities For Ed Tech To Amplify Children's Curiosity, Not Destroy It | Co.Exist:... - 0 views

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shared by djplaner on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • djplaner on 22 May 12
     
    A good quick overview of some interesting/innovative/authentic applications of ICTs to learning
Bridget Bell

The Australian Curriculum v6.0 History: Rationale - 0 views

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shared by Bridget Bell on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • It promotes the understanding of societies, events, movements and developments that have shaped humanity
  • An understanding of world
  • history enhances students’ appreciation of Australian history.
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  • knowledge and understanding is essential for informed and active participation in Australia's diverse society.
  • History is a disciplined process of inquiry into the past that develops students' curiosity and imagination
  • History is a disciplined process of inquiry into the past that develops students' curiosity and imagination
  • nterpretative by nature, promotes debate and encourages thinking about human values
  • interpret sources; consider context; respect and explain different perspectives; develop and substantiate interpretations, and communicate effectively
  • The study of history is based on evidence derived from remains of the past.
Melissa Messenger

The Units of Work - 3 views

www.reefed.edu.au/...the_units_of_work

shared by Melissa Messenger on 19 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Provide students with opportunities to become engaged with the topic;
  • Establish what students already know about the topic;
  • Further stimulate the students curiosity;
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  • Raise other questions for students to explore in the future;
  • Help students to make sense of further activities and experiences which have been planned for them.
  • Provide students with the opportunity to process the information they have gathered and present this in a number of ways; and
  • Allow for a diverse range of outcomes.
  • Provide more information in order to broaden the range of understandings available to the students.
  • Help students draw conclusions about what they have learnt; and Provide opportunities for reflection both on what has been learnt and on the learning process itself.
  • Assist students to make links between their understanding and their experience in the real world; Enable students to make choices and develop the belief that they can be effective participants in society; and Provide further insight into students' understandings for future unit planning.
  • Melissa Messenger on 19 Apr 14
     
    A great framework to use.
philipamck

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 7 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...using_technology.htm

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shared by philipamck on 13 Mar 15 - Cached
  • Modern technologies are very powerful
  • rely on
  • human brain has a tremendous
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  • the preference for visually presented information.
  • bias for visually presented information.
  • The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop optimally.
  • The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.
  • Children are natural "manipulators" of the world
  • With television, they watch and do not control anything
  • cameras and tape recorders and video cameras in the classroom
  • children think differently than adults
  • Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies.
  • Children have to have an integrated and well-balanced set of experiences to help them grow into capable adults that can handle social-emotional interactions as well as develop their intellectual abilities.
  • What's important is when experience is provided and how it's mixed in with other crucial experiences.
  • Parents and teachers must act as facilitators in children's learning.
  • parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.
  • our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children
  • he key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world
  • as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.
  • struggle with
  • ontrolling access to content that may not be developmentally appropriate.
  • ccess to information that is developmentally appropriate is something that we need to be very concerned about
  • may think that buildings are blowing up all over the place and many planes crashed — rather than understanding that these multiple stories are actually from single events
  • word processor and they can hand in papers that are clean and neat and they can see how to spell words correctly
  • put them on a
  • simplest level,
  • ine motor
  • arge motor problem
  • heir handwriting is very immature and very slow and looks sloppy
  • philipamck on 13 Mar 15
     
    Using technology in the early years
karen419

25 awesome apps for teachers, recommended by teachers - 12 views

blog.ed.ted.com/...achers-recommended-by-teachers

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shared by karen419 on 02 Jun 17 - No Cached
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  • karen419 on 02 Jun 17
     
    Found this and thought it was an amazing list. Has helped a lot with prac. What are the best apps for teachers? We asked TED-Ed Innovative Educators and the TED-Ed community. Below, 25 awesome apps recommended for teachers, by teachers. TED-Ed More than 250,000 teachers use TED education tools to spark student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. "TED-Ed is an outstanding resource in my classroom," says TED-Ed Innovative Educator Jennifer Hesseltine.
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