ICTs and Pedagogy

Edmodo offers various resources to help you get started, including security best practices, sample guidelines and a sample code of conduct for your students.

This I Believe is an international organization engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives.

You share a common goal - guiding your students toward learning success - so why not share the time-saving resources that get you there? BoardmakerShare lets you share thousands of ready-made Boardmaker activities and connect with the people who use them.

Tweet feed for the "Teach Primary" magazine - designed for primary teachers.

Blog post with a range of resources related to SOSE/social studies.

A blog that shares different representations of the world based on prevalence of countries contribution.  e.g. how many gold medals won in the olympics and paralympics, global spaces for food production etc.  Useful visualisations of quantitative information

This article is a part of a recent increase in interest in the difference between trolling and abuse in online forums. A potential good opportunity to explore some questions of digital citizenship.

Why some folk thought writing was a "bad" technology.

Humorous video showing two divergent ways of being a teacher.

An iOS based behaviour management app linked to an online service.

One tool to test/encourage students to check their sources, to look critically at the information they come across on the web.

The Raspeberry Pi is a $35 computer. It may or may not be an important change around teaching kids how to get their hands dirty programming etc. Perhaps an interesting tool for the coming Technology area of the Australian Curriculum

An argument for why the argument "technology will make use stupid" is perhaps not the right argument.

Queensland Education Department's learning and disability support website.

Programming becoming a core skill?