Apr

29

Online Safety

April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is a thought-provoking video that could help reinforce the importance of “thinking before you post” to students. In the words of American educator Karl Fisch, “how do we effectively educate our students regarding the irrevocability of anything they post online?”

Downloadable version
Download (Quicktime, 6MB)

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Apr

26

21st century skills

April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The changing information landscape of the 21st Century demands that our students develop new skills of information literacy and become knowledge producers as an integral component of their learning.” - Graham Wegner
Source: http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/aa.gif

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Apr

23

Revised Bloom’s taxonomy

April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Gifted and Talented Education seminar
Peter Merrotsky from UNE discussed the importance of higher order thinking skills for high achieving and gifted students.This revised Bloom’s taxonomy fits well with ICT, which gives students the opportunity to construct their own knowledge via the creation of wikis and blogs.

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Apr

23

Blogging in the Classroom

April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Teaching Tools blog.
This has information from the TAS PD day and is designed to help you set up blogs and wikis in your classroom.

What is a blog?
A blog is an online journal that can have one or multiple editors. It is a series of articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Students [...]