Developing our eAchieve Cluster Portal: How the AppleTree Cluster collaborates online
What was important for us? To develop an online learning community where teachers, students, leaders, and whanau can come together to share resources, communicate, and reflect on their own and their students’/children’s learning Why was this important? Based on teacher interviews, ...Tags: ICTPD, school, community, primary, inquiry,
How do you find out what your school community thinks about using ICT?
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Schools are using social networking to involve parents
This has been posted in the Committed Sardine blog; it is an EdWeek article by Nora Fleming that explores how US schools are: increasingly communicating with schools using multiple media, a "menu of offerings"; providing learning hubs to support parents' education in digital literacies so...Tags: social networks, community, school, family, whānau
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Tags: beyond the classroom, connections, partnerships, home school partnership, whānau, home, school
Tags: igital-technologies, computer-science, coding, design, perseverance, code, pupils, code-club, blocks, school, elementary, k1-7, learning, creative
Literacy tips and tricks for parents
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Literacy tips and tricks for parents
Anyone interested in parents as first teachers at home, might also be interested in a new thread on, Literacy tips and tricks for parents. Do you have any ideas for parents - so they can support their young ones to read (over the holidays) using e-learning tools?Tags: e-learning, reading, home, school, parents, holidays, literacy
NEW: A national strategic plan for science and technology in society
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Integrating computational thinking into other learning areas
Sometimes it can be tricky making sense of the new Digital Technologies content, learning new terminology and finding ways for this to 'fit' naturally into our curriculum. For example, some questions emerging from year 9/10 teachers include: Are we expected to integrate CTDT in ou...Tags: curriculum, integration, computational, thinking, ideas, contexts, secondary, school, year, 9, 10