Students creating digital video in the primary classroom

A research paper that identified eleven successful ICT strategies. One of these strategies was observed at a primary school and demonstrated highly effective and sustained use of digital video production by students leading to changes in pedagogy and teacher’s roles, heightened learner autonomy as well as improved educational outcomes including increased reflection and metacognition.
Read more...British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks

The government of British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, has announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first- and second-year courses in the province’s public post-secondary system.
Read more...Ebook Publisher Inkling Launches Its Own Online Store: An Amazon For Illustrated Learning Content

Not wanting to be outdone by South Korea and others, which mandated the use of digital textbooks by 2015, earlier this year the FCC and the Department of Ed released the Digital Textbook Playbook to help accelerate digital textbook adoption among American schools.
Read more...The history of school technology: Part 1

First came the book, then the spirit duplicator and the offset printer and the truly revolutionary OHP. The rate of change was rapid by the standards then but glacial by the deluge of change today. Dave Foreshaw reminisces.
Read more...How to integrate Web 2.0 tools into the classroom

‘Web 2.0’ is a term familiar to all teachers. Stated in its simplest form, it’s the set of interactive internet-based tools used by students to enrich educational opportunities. Web 2.0 tools offer many opportunities for use in the classroom. In this article we explore a range of tools teachers are using and how to integrate them into your classroom.
Read more...Getting Started with Teaching Coding

The key to enabling students to learn to code (programme) is getting them interested and teaching them to think about what they want the program to do before they start coding. Dan Aldred shares some of his secrets.
Read more...16 Great Virtual Field Trips

These virtual field trips put you and your class right in the centre of the action. They’re real virtual tours and not simply collections of pictures. Some cover acres of land, some a single bone, but all are amazing. See what you think:
Read more...Top 5 Essential Reads for Teachers

Here’s a simple list or what one educator feels are the best books for teachers focusing on both philosophy and practicality.
Read more...Improving K-12 education with shared data and open APIs

The coming generation of teachers has positive expectations of educational technology and in particular of learning objects and how they will use them in the classroom
Read more...Can we fix computer science education?

A job in the the tech sector is one of the highest paid in the USA however American schools are doing a woeful job of preparing kids for it with computer science courses seeing a net decrease in participation over the past 20 years.
Read more...ICT for ICT Sake?

A report on a study that sought to explore the pedagogical reasoning behind the use of ICT in Australian secondary teachers classes.
Read more...The dynamics for students’ on line response

This article explores the dynamics of how students respond to each other during online discussions in a blended learning environment.
Read more...Is the new ICT curriculum too focused on development?

Kids in the UK will now be learning to code from 5 years old as part of the new English National Curriculum some feel that it is too focused on the “Computer Science” side of matters and not enough on “Information Technology”.
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