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Digital Nutrition: a lovely way to phrase ICTs. Changing attitudes towards ICTs in education towards positive acceptance. 

Good background article about the teaching of coding skills, and the importance of logic. 

A more in-depth version of the same article, about technology-inspired changes to Australian jobs. A big push for a growth-mindset. 

An overview of teaching line symmetry, activities ideas and teaching strategies. 

The students in Scott Jackson's eleventh grade American History class have almost no common knowledge about the country's early beginnings and important moments. His students at Brooklyn International High School are recent immigrants to this country who are learning English and how to be American school students at the same time.

This software is currently being used at my children's school. It is like an electronic version of giving out 'stickers', etc for good behaviour. Each day I can see how well my children performed in the classroom and each week a report is generated and emailed to me. This is used in conjunction with an interactive whiteboard, where the children can touch their name/dojo character and give themselves a point for hard work, etc.

Love this idea! I will share with my school too

Magical idea, Luv it. Will save a small fortune for teachers worldwide, as we tend to buy these incentives from our own back pockets in an attempt to engage kids in our classes. Even as a pre-service teacher the little buggers have already cost me......

Is social media all that bad when..... "A new report on "Teens, Technology and Friendships" from the Pew Foundation puts an unusually positive spotlight on the online lives of teenagers as they build friendships and connections in a digital world. Teenagers aged 13 to17 are finding ways to strengthen their relationships with real-world friends as well as making new friends through social media, video gaming, messaging apps and other virtual connectors."

Keep this in mind next time you are researching for an essay.

And don't forget to add the USQ library to Google scholar so you can get access to more full text articles http://www.usq.edu.au/library/getting-help/how-to-guides/google

A program where you can 'create and share your own interactive stories, games, music, and art'.

The first week at uni we started to use a program called Scratch. This program can be used for teachers and students at any level. It is also has free membership. The first activity that we were required to do was to use the motion button to create simple commands to move the script (the cat). The next part of the activity was to make a sequence of commands. This included the moving the script 10 step and then having the script turn around in a clockwise direction at 15 degrees. The number of steps and the degrees can be changed to suit the way you want the script to move. The next activity was to use the simple commands and have them repeat the commands over and over until you stop the command. We also learnt how to have the script change colour while the command sequence was going. The next activity was to draw regular polygons. The first polygon that was drawn was a square. The next challenge was to create other polygons. This program is great to work with. I had some time just to play, adding backgrounds, pictures and sounds. The goal for using this scratch program at uni is to explore options for introducing digital technologies and related concepts in the primary school classroom, as the Technology curriculum is being introduced sometime this year (2013). This program would fall under the Digital Technologies strand in the Australian curriculum: Technologies. This is where students will engage in the components of digital systems: software, hardware and networks.

Great site for children to create stories, games and animations.

Article reporting on what is apparently the "first empirical test of the effect of reflection on learning". It found that learners given time to reflect performed 18% and 23% better than learners who were not given time to reflect on what they'd learned. The study also found that there was no significant difference between reflecting on what was learned and having to teach it to someone else. I do wonder whether the ability of the learners to reflect played any part in the improvements gained? Would guidance on how to reflect improve performance more? Obvious links to both this course and the learning journal, but also for you to ponder in terms of your own learners.

This teacher is passionate about advocating for ICT's in early childhood. She provides interesting ways to do this, and enforces how it can be done as a developmentally appropriate practice.

Hey, Just wanted to share with you that if you wanted to tag your bookmark with multiple words for one tag you type it in like this: "technology in early childhood". Thought that might help you out... Adele.

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

describing flipped classroom with access to academic papers and case studies

Great description and how-to of flipping a classroom.