ICTs and Pedagogy

An open book designed for university instructors to provide advice about teaching and learning in a digital age. Yet, still some interesting coverage of some topics that may be of interest or relevance.

Good little site for some great tech ideas, also, they are free. A very handy resource.

Free technology for teachers

Yay, The more resources we can get the better How to get permission https://archive.org/ a great resource, Wikipedia, Creative commons http://search.creativecommons.org licence explanation at https://en.support.wordpress.com/creative-commons/ This PDF

Page from the American Federation of Teachers describing the benefits and some approaches to building parent-teacher relationships. The artefact for assignment 1 is intended to be something that helps build a parent-teacher relationship.

Parent Benefits Positive parent-school communications benefit parents. The manner in which schools communicate and interact with parents affects the extent and quality of parents' home involvement with their children's learning. For example, schools that communicate bad news about student performance more often than recognizing students' excellence will discourage parent involvement by making parents feel they cannot effectively help their children.

Reading Rockets is a great resource, I remember using this for an assignment quite some time ago. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention.

Interesting take on ICT role in the Australian curriculum stating it should be separately assessed. This is a good point but I still feel it integrates across all learning areas and needs to be up to the teacher how they use ICT. I agree though that a subject teaching the skills and workings of ICT is a good idea and there does seem a huge variation as to how much ICT is used in the classroom. This article may be a bit dated (2011)....

Info for blog on ICT and literacy

Microsoft Education Australia's Teachers Blog - Support, tips, trick and stories from Australian Teachers for Australian Teachers

Researchers are looking into how well "stealth assessments" embedded in video games could help measure less tangible qualities like creativity and persistence.

Researchers are looking into how well "stealth assessments" embedded in video games could help measure less tangible qualities like creativity and persistence.

I played the maths challenge Dragonbox, and was just going to spend a few minutes on this game but I found it fun to keep going and work out how to continue with the problems when I got stuck, until I understood the concept that the challenge was teaching. In a way I was trying to be creative in solving these problems along the way and was learning as well. This idea could be carried on outside the came creating my own idea of Algebra using everyday items. I think that when learning is taking place creativity and innovation are not far behind. Dragonbox http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/technology/personaltech/with-apps-children-can-play-the-game-of-math.html?_r=0

iPad Apps for Literacy in the Early Years.

iPad Apps for Literacy in the Early Years

Great apps for SWDs

Online ebooks and resources. You can obtain a free trial membership (two weeks) to this, which you could set up over the period you will be on Prac.

This a great article that relates to 'new pedagogies' in the classroom, and gives some really interesting perspective on why ICTs are so valuable. It includes some fab infographics etc as well.

Hi I have never heard about this framework until week two of this course. I am sure I have used something similar but now I have a name and a framework to use n my lesson plans. Great share this is a keeper. This will be useful in both theory and practical lessons, in both my teaching areas.

A nice little resource ... Could use in either English or Ancient History. I think that it would work better for Ancient History though in terms of content.

Using technology in the early years