A number of years ago, I was sitting in a PD session conducted by a colleague, when he placed before each of us fellow teachers a marshmallow. He told us ‘If you do not eat your marshmallow during this session, you will get another one at the end. However, if …
Posted on June 30, 2009 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Posted on June 26, 2009 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
It has always struck me that boys and girls interact differently with ICT in the classroom. Having worked in co-educational and boys’ schools, I have noticed that girls tend to work collaboratively and creatively whilst boys tend to excitedly explore. The differences identified that exist between genders are, of course, …
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Marco Torres gets it and tells it how we need to hear it! As a former Los Angeles high school teacher and now a technology and innovation educator, and a member of Barrack Obama’s Technology in Education Advisory Committee, he discussed digital learning on ABC Radio National.
He talked about how many schools get …
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Brad .
It’s a Computational Knowledge Engine. A what?! It’s Wolfram Alpha.
This thing is crazy! I don’t remember ever before being so excited about a search engine. Probably because Wolfram is so much more than that.
Still in it’s infancy, testing stage even, this new engine will still return the occasional error but …
Posted on May 13, 2009 by Mandy Ross .
This week Amazon unveiled the latest weapon in their armoury to secure the electronic reading market. The KINDLE 2 is a slinky, skinny, portable electronic book-reader. KINDLE 2 gives you access to more than 188 thousand bestsellers, magazines and newspapers. Some have described the KINDLE 2 as Amazons book equivalent of Apples …
Posted on May 12, 2009 by Brad .
A bit of listening for you today. James O’Loghlin interviews Tim Pithouse from Sony BMG about how to identify legitimate sources to download music. Your children or students may be breaking the law without even knowing it.
Switch on your speakers and Click Here.
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Mandy Ross .
The new Victorian Government initiative Think Before you Upload drives home a strong message to young people to be smart online. Click through to the Think Before You Upload site here
The internet is today’s modern playground and is just as good or bad as the people who use it. We have …
Posted on April 28, 2009 by Phill .
It is not often at all that this blog will pull an entire article from another site and throw it in here. But in this case I just could not pass the opportunity up – both for you and especially to help spread the brilliant thoughts of Judy Willis – …
Posted on April 27, 2009 by Beyond Chalk Blog .
Something a little light-hearted today. Evelien Lohbeck is so so crazy clever! Her ideas exceed her technical genius in this show reel of animation/video mash-ups.
Enjoy!
Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.
Posted on April 3, 2009 by Brad .
Some sketchy details have been leaked in the UK and published by The Guardian about some proposed changes to the Primary school curriculum.
The changes include:
Teaching children to use online services such as Twitter and Wikipedia effectively.
Less use of calculators
Ensuring the students have an understanding of physical development
The list goes on. …
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Brad .
In the spirit of the collaborative nature of Web 2.0 Creative Commons was born. Said to be a leader in the ‘CopyLeft’ movement, Creative Commons licenses clarify to the consumer/reader/viewer how the creators work can be used and distributed.