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Last week I spent three days thinking about curriculum and all that it means to teaching and learning thanks to the Australian Curriculum Studies Association's biannual conference. It was three days of deeply thoughtful conversation and learning with just the right mix of academic research and ideas for grounded practice straight out of innovative classrooms and schools. With keynotes by Alan Reid, Dan Haesler, Bob Lingard, Robert Randall and Jan Owen combined with Masterclasses from some of Australia's leading educators there was much on offer. The biggest challenge was deciding which workshop you would attend when every session offered such outstanding opportunities.

This unavoidable and irreducible complexity means that schools are challenging place to study, to understand and to manage change within. Even for the teacher who spends everyday inside the school there is so much going on that unguided observations and the plans based upon them come with no guarantee of success. - We need a lens and a lever to manage this complexity. -  Such a lens is offered by the 'cultural forces'.

With many schools moving to online learning around the world I wanted to share a resource that might be of support.

VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.

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A new study suggests that video games can be a force for good, finding that games with positive objectives can actually inspire people to perform acts of altruism.

I think the scatter mode would work especially well on an interactive board, as kids can come up and do the matching themselves.

A good flashcard generator.

he Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting.

This website has been designed to make you think a bit more about what it is to be a citizen. It looks at laws, rules, making decisions, democracy and a whole lot more.

Bonanza of interactive resources in all content areas

The Medieval Game of Life