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strategies/skills 1. Every day have one student as the 'official researcher' who is looking things up on the web and saving the key information for later access 2. Reflect on your work as a learner. Look at body of work over time and reflect on what you've learnt and what you need to learn next. In a class it can be a podcast to review what has happened and how it fits in. 3. Documentation - not everyone has to write the notes. Someone or a couple of people are scribes and does the note taking but the class reviews at the end to make sure the notes are accurate and complete. It is saved where everyone and access it. 4. Suggests kids can research what they'd like to do for assignments

Primary teachers in New South Wales (NSW) are this year and next integrating a new Science & Technology Curriculum. It brings with it a number of challenges and opportunities and while it has much in common with the existing curriculum, it will require some significant changes.

Jobs Abroad, Work Abroad, International Jobs Online - Are you familiar with the luxury brand Versace? Well, it is actually Gianni Versace S.p.A., an Italian luxury fashion company and brand name founded by Gianni Versace in 1978. It designs and produces lifestyle products such as high-class Italian made ready-to-wear and leather accessories, haute couture, jewelry, eye wear, fragrances, watches, and more. The Versace Group distributes its products worldwide as it has over 200 boutiques in major cities and over 1500 wholesalers global.

Jobs Abroad, Work Abroad, International Jobs Online - A lot of people know about Microsoft. Are you familiar with Microsoft? Well, Microsoft is an American multinational technology company in Redmond, Washington. It develops, supports, licenses manufactures and sells consumer electronics, personal computers, and services as well. Most of its software products are Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Internet Explorers and Edge web browsers. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker by revenue. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.

Jobs Abroad, Work Abroad, International Jobs Online - Singapore Airlines has founded 69 years ago May 1, 1947, as Malayan Airways and it commenced operations October 1, 1972. Singapore Airlines uses the Singapore Girl (SIA uniform since 1972) as their central figure in its corporate branding. Singapore Airlines is the flag carrier of the Republic of Singapore and it ranks amongst the top 15 air carriers worldwide in terms of the scale of revenue-passengers-kilometers. It is also 10th in the world for the volume of International passengers carried and one of the largest airline businesses in Asia.

Jobs Abroad, Work Abroad, International Jobs Online - Philippine Airlines is the flag carrier of the Philippines. It is headquartered at the PNB Financial Center in Pasay City. It is the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name and it was founded in 1941. Philippine Airlines serves 31 destinations in the Philippines and 41 overseas destinations in East Asia, Oceania, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Europe, and North America.

This year is the fiftieth birthday of Harvard's Project Zero, a research project designed to explore the nature of thinking and learning and from this suggest pedagogies which align with what we know about the mind. For its birthday celebration Project Zero shared insights from its five decades of research with presentations from Howard Gardner, David Perkins, Shari Tasman, Steve Seidel and Daniel Wilson. The presentations revealed the changing nature of the work of Project Zero from its early days and focus on arts education to its current position as a research organisation with broad interests across education but with a focus on thinking, understanding and the workings of the mind.

The Automotive Internet of Things (AoT) is becoming a reality today and it is starting to make people wonder if it is an innovation that is going to become mainstream. While some see it as a new era in the internet world, others question whether or not it will truly take over the world and dominate the market of consumer electronics.

To ensure reflective practice is more than an activity added to our schedule, we need to take a reflective stance. Too often, reflection becomes the thing we do at the end of a task or the end of the day. We look back and contemplate what was, and with that in mind, we look forward to what we might do differently next time. It is in this way a very reactionary process. By all means, this form of reflection has its place, and it can be a powerful strategy to deploy as we seek to learn from experience. If we value reflective practice, we will be sure to set aside time for this form of reflection on a routine basis. By engaging in reflection habitually, we ensure that it is a routine part of our day. But adopting a reflective stance can make this more powerful.

n practical terms, any change effort that does not consider the culture into which it is introduced is unlikely to succeed. The worst-case scenario is that the change effort is resisted to such a degree that it is never truly implemented. In many cases, however, the change effort fails to produce the sort of results initially imagined despite the efforts of all involved to adopt the change. Although the new behaviours are adopted, something goes wrong, and it isn't always that the new idea itself is to be blamed. - Maybe it's culture?

Relationships Australia (SA) is looking for up to 10 Adelaide area gamers who want to participate in paid consultancy work about online gaming through a program called Keep It Fun. The end game is to create an online or mobile widget/app/info source for gamers aged 12 to 17 to help them work out whether they've got game and are keeping it fun or whether their gaming habits are pwning them.

There has to be a way for people to organize and share freely and openly through a series of trust networks that aren't necessarily mediated by institutions. But given so many of the demands of accreditation, and the current expectations for the system as it currently operates, given the choice between grief (a public, subsidized higher ed option) and nothing (the rise of privatized workforce factories), I'll take grief every time. But all the while continuing to work towards the idea that there can and will be another way outside of this debilitating binary we are working through right now.

"# Get together with other students to study. Do it when you want and with whomever you want. # Got a question you need answered quickly? Post it to your buddies or get some input from the OpenStudy community. # Got an assignment or project to complete? Get together online, upload content, chat about it or add comments. # Use OpenStudy whenever you want - it's always on. Why study alone if you don't have to?"

Seems like a very useful site for students who wish to collaborate over the web.

Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.

From Dan Russell. Abstract:  What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search over billions of texts in less than 300 milliseconds? Although you might think that "literacy" is one of the great constants that transcends the ages, the skills of a literate person have changed substantially over time as texts and technology allow for new kinds of reading and understanding. Knowing how to read is just the beginning of it-knowing how to frame a question, pose a query, how to interpret the texts that you find, how to organize and use the information you discover, how to understand your metacognition-these are all critical parts of being literate as well.

"Critical thinking is a skill that we can teach to our students through exercise and practice. It is particularly a skill that contains a plethora of other skills inside it. Critical thinking in its basic definition refers"  to a diverse range of intellectual skills and activities concerned with evaluating information as well as evaluating our thought in a disciplined way ". All of our students think in a way or another but the question  is , do they really think critically ? are they able to evaluate the information they come across ? are they capable of going beyond the surface thinking layer ? Can they make connections between what they learn and the outer world? Can they question the status quo of their knowledge ?"

"THE future of Victoria's troubled online education network is in doubt, with many schools refusing to use it amid complaints it is clunky and outdated and the security wall does not provide a real-life cyber environment."

"At its inception, the Ultranet represented the best opportunity for schools to tap into the ground-swell of technology acceptance that was coursing through society during the early/mid 2000′s. Somewhere along the journey, the Ultranet failed to live up to this lofty and ambitious goal."

The maker movement and with it maker-centered learning brings new possibilities and challenges into the classroom. It has spawned makerspaces and students are busy designing and making products. The danger with all this frenzied making is that it is very easy to miss the point, to focus on the product and not the journey.  

Something is missing from my classroom lately and I am quite happy to have seen it disappear. It is the traditional line at the teacher's desk formed by students awaiting feedback on a recently completed piece of writing. What has replaced this is our use of Google Docs and Slides as a tool for the collaborative development of ideas from initial thinking and strategising through to final editing and refinement. It has introduced a new workflow to the class that both streamlines the process of providing feedback, allows for greater detail and transforms the process into one that is richly collaborative.