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An argument that the ability to understand and code for the Web should be a standard literacy.  We may look at Scratch in coming weeks.

Article from the Canberra times offering a simple explanation of the relationship between cross-curriculum priorities and discipline content in the Australian Curriculum. Many of you will be engaging with this over coming weeks.

The difference in the perceptions of "struggles" connects nicely with the struggle many people have with ICTs and the first weeks of this course. Especially the point about how you perceive your struggles.

This week as part of our learning path activity for EDC3100 we were asked to 'fill in the blanks'. Here is a great website that talks about Schema and gives some great activities to help with prior knowledge and building on new knowledge! :) Enjoy

I have been following this teachers blog for the last week and a half as part of my PLN. Her most recent post, which contains a presentation she will be conducting includes a HUGE amount of apps for every imaginable topic- behaviour management, English, creativity etc etc

Sorry for my ignorance but how do you follow her blog? I am interested in the apps, good find.

I have been following educator Martin Burrett@ICTMagic on Twitter for the past 2 weeks as part of my PLN. Recently he has posted this great link to a range of ICT resources for the classroom which I wanted to share with you all.

Last week my group looked at Bloom's as a framework for designing great unit plans. We discussed how higher order thinking should be a key component of any unit plan. These resources will help you encourage higher order thinking and creativity in your units.

"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."

This is a blog I came across last week. Marcie Martel is a teacher who LOVES to use ICT's in her classroom and regularly shares and update her discoveries

A good idea to follow other teachers. The best way you can improve your own practice is to learn from others.

David is a middle years teacher in Toowoomba working in a private school. David blog aims at the students, the parents of the students and other teachers ofcourse. A quick read of the blog shows David focusing on the students and their development, with blogs around behaviour management and reference to Maslow's theory on student environments. Other blog posts see David referring to TED talks and posting regular info-graphics to inspire his students for the week.

This blog post discusses the educational value of video games and is written by Andria Ballschmieter, a special education teacher in a rural high school in south East Queensland.

Last week we looked at how to incorporate computer programming into your learning program. You don't need any prior knowledge or experience ... here's some resources to help you:

A "tech integrator" in schools - Chris Betcher who was mentioned in week 1 - reflects on what he does and captures much of what integrating ICT into learning and teaching is about

Karl Fisch is a Primary Teacher in America.

This is the blog atached in the week two learning path. I understand that we are not encouraged to share learning material already given to us but this was an 'if you want to' part. If you only read one thing read the first post - This teacher seems fantastic!

Research also suggests that educators help motivate students by using materials and implementing activities that students consider meaningful (Spratt, Humphreys, & Chan, 2002). As one of Pinkman's students wrote, "...once or twice a week I check my blog and then other students write comments for me, my motivation is up, usually teacher check my blog, so if I read teacher comments my teacher thought about me, my motivation up" (Pinkman, 2005, p. 20). Due to the popularity of computer and Internet technology and the growing interest in blogging, it was expected that our group of learners would also find the use of blogs in their English language study highly motivating.

The Week 2 activity in asked What's your pedagogy? got me thinking, I decided that building relationships with my students was extremely important to me. I agree with this article and Elena Aguilar shares a very similar pedagogy, her classroom is not just individual students, it's a community in which everyone belong

Awesome question! I have a number of motto's but I think one stands tall amongst them all. We are all equal and put downs of course are not to be tolerated but I believe more focus on student fear of failure resulting in a lack of effort to succeed. There will be times in our career where we will witness students losing motivation due to ridicule from peers or even self-ridicule. More than once I have heard in a maths classroom a student admitting, "Oh I'm not good at maths", even when I can see that they are quite capable. Effectively the student is giving themself permission to fail. My moto is "THANKS FOR CORRECTING ME!" Too often students fear answering a questions in case they get it wrong, and some students will abuse others for their mistakes. It is a cultural attitude that is in the workplace as well as the classroom. If someone voices that they have discovered a mistake you have made, then that gives you the opportunity to correct yourself. If you cannot see the error, then it is an opportunity for them to teach you something new. It doesn't matter which way you look at it, mistakes should be celebrated as a collaborative learning opportunity, and as teachers we should encourage this. Olympic gold medal winner Adam Kreek talks about happy failure and emergence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8P7Ni1NwB0

This is a draft version of Salomon (2000). A talk that is referenced in the Week 2 learning path (2016)

Introduces the idea of conceptual change in the context of science. During week 1 of EDC3100 we will be looking at conceptual change as it applies to learning how to use an ICT.

Article describing research about student weakness in Science and its causes. Used as an optional reading during Week 1.