ICTs and Pedagogy

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"Over the years, I have seen "the fear" many times. A popular idiom used here in the USA is to compare the signs of that fear to "deer in headlights" The eyes of the technophobe are widened and a form of paralysis sets in as soon as I approach. Although, I emphasize modern teaching, learning and pedagogy, I am perceived as a "technology guru", justifying the terrified look (How could an educator have fear of teaching, learning or pedagogy?)"

Flickr just increased everyone's limit to one terabyte, and pics are full resolution and available anywhere you go.

From another Diigo site. Reading to Learn is one of the world's most powerful literacy programs. It is designed to enable all learners at all levels of education to read and write successfully, at levels appropriate to their age, grade and area of study. The Reading to Learn strategies have been independently evaluated to consistently accelerate the learning of all students at twice to more than four times expected rates, across all schools and classes, and among students from all backgrounds and ability ranges.

The web page has a lot of resources that can be used to enhance students story telling through fantasy.

Emma looks at Bee Bots.

This site has great interactive and print resources for learning all sorts of things. I used some of these this term for lessons on seasons in a special ed setting and the students were very engaged and learnt well.

I like that this site goes from kindy to adults with math mah-jong and solitaire. A very busy site when you first open it but once you read a bot it is clear to navigate around.

Fantastic site for ECE and Special Ed that encourages critical thinking. Has a vast range of activities from music to maths to more, that are very play-based and mostly educational. Take a look Special Ed and Early Childhood people!

AITSL is the Australian authority on professional teacher standards. Here is the May eNews fyi. Worth following @aitsl

This is from Richard Byrne's blog.

Getting a handle on numbers, their magnitude and relationship can be difficult for adults, let alone students. This is an example of where published data from the EU statistics agency is being brought into Minecraft to support visualisation.

A game where you have to guess using a Google map where in the world a particular photo is taken.

First blog for a French immersion Kindegarten class.

More music sites

Different musical applications for different levels.

More great information about the IWB.