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"Type Description Descriptive writing Not reflective. Description of events that occurred/report of literature. No attempt to provide reasons/justification for events. Descriptive reflection Reflective, not only a description of events but some attempt to provide reason/justification for events or actions but in a reportive or descriptive way. For example, "I chose this problem-solving activity because I believe that students should be active rather than passive learners". Recognition of alternate viewpoints in the research and literature which are reported. For example, Tyler (1949), because of the assumptions on which his approach rest suggests that the curriculum process should begin with objectives. Yinger (1979), on the other hand argues that the "task" is the starting point. Two forms: Reflection based generally on one perspective/factor as rationale. Reflection is based on the recognition of multiple factors and perspectives Dialogic reflection Demonstrates a "stepping back" from the events/actions leading to a different level of mulling about, discourse with self and exploring the experience, events, and actions using qualities of judgements and possible alternatives for explaining and hypothesising. Such reflection is analytics or/and integrative of factors and perspectives and may recognise inconsistencies in attempting to provide rationales and critique, for example. While I planned to use mainly written text materials I became aware very quickly that a number of students did not respond to these. Thinking about this now there may have been several reasons for this. A number of students, while reasonably proficient in English, even though they had been NESB learners, may still have lacked some confidence in handling the level of language in the text. Alternatively, a number of students may have been visual and tactile learners. In any case I found that I had to employ more concrete activities in my teaching. Critical reflection Demonstrates an aware

Interesting article on how parents feel about the use of iPads in schools. Could be useful for our first assignment.

One of many such lists which give some ideas about how Twitter can be used in the classroom. Some food for thought for those who are a bit doubtful about Twitter.

A useful website with fee interactive lessons on everyday life activities for Special Needs students. This would be a very useful resource for those life skills that Special Needs students need in order to become self sufficient in their lives.

This website is extremely useful, I have just bookmarked the 'About' page as it had a quote that I wished to highlight - This site was founded to assist elementary and middle school teachers in integrating technology into the curriculum. I think that I will be using this website in years to come.

A long but interesting post about what it means to be able to use computers, why most kids can't and what implications it may have for the future. Written by a teacher.

A unit of work put together by Hartsdown technical college which incorporates the use of a variety of ICT's.

One of the examples from the 101 questions website. All of the examples are based on the use of ICTs to pose a mathematical question to students that will perplex them, that will get them to ask questions. Uses a three act model for the lesson where Act 1 is the "perplexor".

Blog post summarising research into the impact of short, frequent quizzes on student learning and offering some observations and implications on the common planning practices used in schools (and universities). Obvious links to unit and lesson planning and also the use of ICTs. ICT-based quizzes likely to be the best way of implementing short and frequent quizzes.

A collection of outputs produced by a European working group on IWBs. Includes guidelines for use, procurement and videos of use

Blog post describing some tools and approaches that can be used to scaffold student use of search engines

One possible approach to the problem of students using phones in class. Not such a great fan of it and then one of the comments offers the solution that I imagine quite a few students adopting "I'd just put it on an old phone connected to wifi and stick it in my bag. BOOM 24/7 locked phone"

Although an older article it still has many relevant ideas for ICT today

Although an older article it still has many relevant ideas for ICT today

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

The first page provides synopsis of this paper, using computers for children to do interesting things and programming as a vehicle for teaching thinking.  Skimming through titles, you can circumnavigate to view approaches and descriptions of computer use and coding.

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......

This is the Blog of Leanora Donnelly a special education teacher with whom I have had the pleasure of working. She is passionate about inclusion and differentiation, interests I also share. Whilst this blog focuses on popular culture it does talk about how the inclusion of pop culture through the use of ICTs can enrich the educational experiences of students and teachers and even the playing field for students with disability and other diverse learners.

I found this and thought it supported the previous article regarding tool belt theory

Aspen, did you find the info on the theory, the task or the environment?

Hi Colleen, If you open the link, you will find info on all three- theory, task and environment :) The snippets above are what I highlighted

Effective teaching strategies for students with Special Needs

Some more insight into how SAMR can be used