ICTs and Pedagogy

Although this isn't education related, I thought it was a great example of some of the benefits of ICTs

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.

This article provides definitions for formative and summative assessment and includes 55 ways to check for understanding

This really helped me with some creative assessment ideas.

I entered 'unit pan' in edutopia and this list came, thought there ad to be some articles hat someone else would find useful

A great digital story telling resource

Provide band of "verbs" appropriate to the level; and a collection of learning activities and resources.

"The Padagogy Wheel V3.0: Learning Design starts with graduate attributes, capabilities and motivation"

Information and resources to help teachers identifing ideas for how to use ICTs to amplify and transform students learning experiences.

The Starter Sheets are resources for the classroom teacher. The intention of each sheet is to introduce a tool, technology or activity that could be easily adapted for use in the classroom.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

A high school teacher reflects on the difficulty of helping students research. Includes some ideas and comments from others on how to help

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

This is an article I found regarding the use of pck to improve students understanding of history. It discusses the how novice teachers may lack pck and what they can look for in their pedagogy to improve students understanding and increase their own PCK.