"A collaborative space to help teachers understand how to better their practice by using Guided Inquiry and Web 2.0 tools to implement the National Curriculum for History"
Videoconference programs:
Indigenous rights and freedoms - Years 9-12
Investigating sources - Years 7-12
Making a nation - Years 5-12
Extension History - Years 11-12 (New South Wales)
Australian inventions and innovations - Years 4-8
Post-war migration - Years 10-12
Arab Gateways: A resource for Australian students and teachers explores some of the history, geography, economics and culture of the Arab region. It promotes understanding of the cultures, values, beliefs and diversity of peoples of the Arab region.
"Maria Montessori launched an international movement during the 20th century with her approach to early-childhood learning. She showed through example that education happens "not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment." The Italian physician and child-development expert pioneered learning environments that foster capable, adaptive citizens and problem solvers.
Jean Piaget, the Swiss developmental psychologist, helped us understand how we make meaning from our experiences at different ages. His insights laid the foundation for the constructivist approach to education in which students build on what they know by asking questions, investigating, interacting with others, and reflecting on these experiences.
Learning from Real Life "
"Our 'digital natives' may be able to flit between Facebook and Twitter while simultaneously uploading a selfie to Instagram and texting a friend," state the researchers from the Stanford History Education Group. "But when it comes to evaluating information that flows through social media channels, they are easily duped."
"A search to recover the very first web page has unearthed a relic from 1991. The page turned up after Cern launched a public appeal for files, hardware and software from the web's earliest days.
The original page is missing because the web's creators did not preserve the early work they did on what has become a historic document.
Unfortunately, other potential finds from the same era on that old computer remain hidden because the password for it has been forgotten."
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."
We have created this site to provide a visually rich and interactive online experience for telling cultural stories in new ways. Discover exhibits by expert curators, find artifacts, view photographs, read original manuscripts, watch videos, and more.
An amazing interactive video in 4 parts, created from images from the NY Times archives. At any point you can stop and explore the content in more detail.