Hope you can swim....

The world has moved into IG3. 

Education is moving into IG3.

IG3 = information generation 3!

On Saturday I participated in a very exciting, first of its kind,

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learning opportunity. At home, safe, on my computer, I was able to engage in a most stimulating
"Leading a Digital School" conference through Twitter.

I was not the only one.

Read Stu Hasic's account:@ http://bit.ly/BRIJt

You Better Start Swimmin’ or You’ll Sink Like a Stone

Science and Technology on a shoestring budget

So easy and yet so much fun!!!
Toys from Trash

Test balance, astronomy, pumps and air pressure, light, electricity and magnetism........

Digital Learning

Marco Torres, a technology and innovation educator to Barack Obama, has recently been visiting Australia talking to Julia Gillard.

He says: "Smartboards and laptops might be all the buzz in Australian schools, but both teachers and governments get too hung up on these tools of technology, and sometimes overlook their purpose. Click here to listen to him.

IT Curriculum 2.0 Wiki

How does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century? Embedded IT needs to change.

Watch this video presentation and consider:

"For the first time in history, our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we cannot clearly describe. Technology (cell phones, computers, the internet etc.) is as familiar to the youth of today as the television and radio was to the generation before them."

"A new literacy has emerged and with it comes a brand new set of skills, responsibilities and challenges. It is time to rethink the role that information technology plays in schools and transition from disconnected entities to partners in learning."

"Learners must be given opportunities to solve problems creatively, work alongside others, and develop their own understanding of the world."

"In order to answer the Essential Questions for the 21st Century Learner, students will need both technological and non-technological knowledge, understanding and skills.
Technology skills will be learned in school by students in the same way it is learned “in the real world”: as they need it." Curriculum2.0 NewLiteracy

Are you ready for this new literacy? 21stCentury Literacy

Information and Communication Learning Technologies

Hope these can be of assistance:

Educational Origami

Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom,

Edugator

Integrating technology into the curriculum

Information and Communication Reviews for teachers-links to teachers toolkit

Interactive Whiteboard resources

Intel K-12 Teaching Tools

Intel K-12 Teaching Resources

Teachers TV Australia-need to log in

Information Communication Technologies _Becta

ICT Tools for teachers

ICT Links within the Syllabus Development and Resources directorate
ICT from CMIS

Online learning activities

Open ended software

Theme pages EdNA
Teachers and students find online curriculum content engaging, interesting and effective. Integrating learning objects into teaching and learning can have a positive effect on student outcomes. The following links are to freely available learning objects within the edna repository.


The site for ICT teaching.

Hundreds of free downnloads, including posters.

Gifted Students, Thinking Skills and ICT

Northumberland NGfL: ICT Resources

Northumberland NGfL: ICT Resources - Dazzle

Digital Story Telling " 2008 " May ICT@Mt Waverley Primary
The ‘Wow’ Factor! Digital Story Telling has created a revolution at our school! A rich tapestry of stories has emerged about the lives of our students. We have learnt so much more about these kids – about what is happening in their lives and what is important to them. These children have real stories to tell – how often do we give them the voice to tell their stories?

The Education Podcast Network

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

The speed of change

"The problem is not change...we've always had change. The problem is the speed of change, and that change is cultural now. Because of that it feels like our kids are leading the way with technology." Will Richardson. Webblogged

TeAchnology

http://www.teach-nology.com/

We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.