ICTs and Pedagogy

A collection of blogs gathered in Pinterest  by the kinderchat folk.  All should be related to early childhood 

ePals Global Community where learners connect

A web whiteboard

ICT Assessment Rubrics plus so much more

5 minute interview with Dr James Gee. One of the people explaining why game-based learning has some significant benefits.

An example ICT-rich unit of work used with a Year 6 class looking into Australian Immigration.

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.

A blog post that presents a graph giving one representation of where certain skills and knowledge sit along two axes - "difficulty to assess" and "learning in a networked world". The argument is that most assessment in formal education focuses on content knowledge and basic skills.  Rather than on more important but more difficult to assess knowledge and skills. It might not be 100% correct, but it's good food for thought. What are you teaching and assessing in your teaching?  What am I doing?

"New information guide on 'Using Wikis and Blogs'"

I saw this on a yr 2 blog page thought it could b a fun activity I know I had FUN!