ICTs and Pedagogy

An Australian secondary science teacher who shares lots of interesting science links and has been blogging for quite a few years.

March 4, 2016 Another great Joy of Tech comic .... February 28, 2016 Check out yet another great talk by Al Gore. There is hope on climate change ... February 27, 2016 The process takes merely tenths of a second. But within that tiny amount of time, there's a lot going on.

Kathleen Morris discusses the benefits of using blogs in classrooms. She has been an active 'blogger' for over 6 years now, and explains that she feels blogging assists students to make connections with their learning, particularly in primary school settings, with home, school, and global influences.

A primary school teacher's advice for using blogging in the classroom with students for learning.

This blog provides a value based approach to education and may be useful

TeacherTube brings free videos and educational technology into the classroom as well as the home. Our kid's videos can be used as tools anywhere to help children learn. Click now and find out how we can help.

Mondays are hard for (almost) everyone. What if we started the week with reminding students how much they and their work matters? Let's challenge every teacher we know to begin celebrating Mattering Mondays. We know that we need students to be more engaged. We also know that when students feel like they matter and they [...]

Great resources pages and lots of ideas for all areas of the classroom

A teacher of Early Childhood who I cherish. She is so passionate about Early Childhood Education and shares such amazing resources and articles that challenge your thinking. She shares stories, experiences, developmental information and so much more!

Interesting blogs in relation to the digital world used in the classroom

Resources to help improve students learning. Article disscusses how music can improve fluency

This blog is written by an Australian primary school teacher. The blog consists of advice, tips, tricks and resources on how to organise the classroom, organise yourself and lesson ideas. This blog also features some ICT ideas for the classroom.

current, inspirational and education content and ideas for early childhood educators.

This blog is aimed at Early Childhood Teachers in Australia and should be very informative. The post about equity and equality being very different could be interesting for all.

So this information is from 2011 but it gives us an idea of how much of the 'iceberg' teachers are using in the classroom. We are all likely comfortable incorporating the first few tasks/activities in our classrooms but we need to ramp up ICT use in deeper tasks to encourage HOT skills. Sourced from http://elearningindustry.com/time-level-use-ict-in-your-classroom

International keynote speaker and educator, lives in Sydney and actively promotes eqity in education, with a strong focus on engaging the disadvantaged and disengaged learners.

Provides blogs from a range of teachers specialising in Special Education

I found a great blog to follow. This teacher reviews children's books. A great way to find out about new books with a review so you can tell if it is what you are looking for.

I really enjoy following teachers on Instagram and I look at Instagram as micro blogging, a quick snap shot of their classrooms which can give some great ideas. I Teach Prep is one of my favorite Instagram pages and this teacher usually updates daily. Instagram is another digital tool to enhance or learning and communication with other teachers.

A large range of articles and blogs discussing current issues and ideas around ICT and early childhood.

An Australian maths teacher, sharing thoughts, resources and links to other blogs related to mathematics.

A TEDx talk that offers 5 principles for teaching mathematics. 5 principles that act as a simple framework for designing a lesson, unit etc. How might ICT be used with each of these questions.