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What would have happened if we had listened to these folk.  Will use a version of this in a lecture tomorrow.

Tallyn, my wife is currently studying for a big test, one that will take 5 or 6 hours. One of her biggest concerns is having to write with pen and paper for that long. Something she rarely does and knows will cause great pain in her hand. Let alone the pain caused to the marker by having to try and read my wife's handwriting. In 50 to 500 times there will be people laughing hard at us for thinking the ability to write with a pen was essential.

You can almost picture your grandchildren laughing at you for picking up a pen and paper to write your to do list can't you?? It is an exciting time we live in though:-)) Good luck to your wife.. she will need a hand massage after that sized written test..

While teachers need to have the skills to operate specific technologies, TPCK includes knowing about effective pedagogy that uses ICT, how ICT can change the nature of content that is to be taught, how it can be used to address problems, and how it can help to construct knowledge.

Using ICT with people with SEN: what the literature tells us

I like this resource, my son needs something just like this as he struggles with his emotions, I am sure many students would benefit from this activity.

Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 1. Digital Access: full electronic participation in society. Technology users need to be aware that not everyone has the same opportunities when it comes to technology.

Worth a read. This is a great blog about how things have changed and what students need to know in a digital world.

NZ and international literature - ways that ICT can support children's learning.

ICT education for authentic learning #edc3100

I like the idea of using these Ipad apps in particular *Educreations; this can be used in the classroom as a recordable whiteboard and the opportunity to put lessons on the web so students can watch them before and after class, parents can see them and can learn with child or they can reinforce the newly learnt concepts. * Toonastic; I can see this being used for reluctant writers with children with special needs where they can create animated moving pictures and record their voice to their story.

This is great, have just downloaded some onto the ipad!! I will keep a look out for more apps.

A blog post where some math educators point out problems in videos from Khan Academy. A great illustration of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). The idea that there is a special type of knowledge that accrues from knowing how best to teach a particular content/subject areas.

You need to sign up to the website but it is free. Has lots of on line resources to use across a range of subjects.

The learning area/year level that could use this resource wout be from prep to year 6. What I like about the flipchart is that it is very interactive and provides resources for a wide range of maths concepts from birthdays, weather to hundreds charts, place value to number lines. Any problems it might have would be that for some things you need to enter or edit you have to switch back and forth between design mode.

"Rethinking Education in the New Digital Landscape by Ian Jukes"

In typical Horrible Histories format, the history of WW1 of life in the trenches is re-enacted with some interesting facts

An Ebook; read along story about a Grand dad and his grandson on ANZAC day.

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