Virtual Learning Network

Have you seen this month's NZC Online newsletter?  You can subscribe here:  http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/About-this-site/Sign-Up?

There are some great resources that explore the way ICTs can enhance teaching and learning, including:

•  Youtube: Learning to change - changing to learn:  A number of well known educational thought leaders reflect on the future of learning - "The death of education but the dawn of learning".

• Literacy in technology:  This resource looks at how literacy learning needs can be addressed in the technology teaching and learning programme.

• Schools World TV:  With the closure of TeachersTV in the UK, the full 3,500 videos have found a new home on Schools World TV.

• YouTube: Teachers:  Launched this month, YouTube for Teachers - incorporate YouTube clips into your classroom by subscribing to the teachers’ community.

• Ewan McIntosh #TEDxLondon: The problem finders:  Read educator Ewan McIntosh’s TEDxLondon presentation on schools developing a problem-finding curriculum to engage students through authentic and worthwhile problems.

• Learning in a modern classroom:  Two year 12 students discuss what learning in a modern classroom means for them at the Education Leaders Forum in Wellington last month.