Thursday 11 June 2015:
Absolutely brilliant discussion with Diego Fonstad, Resident Tinkerer at the Bourn Ideas Lab at Castilleja School, Palo Alto.
Diego gave some compelling reasons for the demise and re-emergence of the maker movement, and the strategy used by Castilleja to integrate their makerspace into mainstream curriculum.
Visited a school with a fantastic makerspace. Really clever integration into mainstream curriculum. A very comprehensive analysis of the rationale and practical aspects of the makerspace from Diego
ABC Splash brings you the best Australian content from across ABC TV and Radio plus high-quality video from around the world.
See volcanos erupt and microbats fly. Investigate fossils, megafires and worm farms. Meet fairytale monsters. Unwrap an Ancient Egyptian mummy and explore the Great Barrier Reef without getting wet!
There are special areas for parents and teachers featuring thought-provoking articles and blog posts, teaching resources and up-to-date education news.
Here you will find hundreds of new videos and special features. You’ll be able to make and mash up your own Collections in the cloud, save your favourites and upload your own videos, songs and pictures.
The ABC has teamed up with Education Services Australia to link hundreds of new learning resources directly to the Australian Curriculum. Look out for cutting-edge games, virtual worlds and immersive digital experiences.
To learn more about ABC Splash, sign up to our Newsletter from the homepage.
If you or your institution would like to speak with us about a collaboration with ABC Splash, please contact the ABC Splash team.
ABC Splash is continuing to roll out a comprehensive series of high-quality live events across Australia, for teachers and students. Schools across the country are invited to engage with these events using Live Streaming from our website.
Stay in touch via Facebook, Twitter to receive advanced notice of the event schedule, so your school can become involved.
So far, ABC Splash Live has run a series of live webcasts on Space, Vikings, Conflict Reporting and Dinosaurs which you can watch on demand from the Events page, where you can also take part in upcoming events. Follow ABC Splash events on social media using hashtag #ABCSplashLive
Teachers and students within DoE Tasmania have access to a range of online tools for teaching and learning. Taken together, these constitute a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
New things from ESA to support Australian schools implementing the Australian Curriculum, as of March 2013.
Simpler Scootle account registration for teachers
www.teachingacenglish.edu.au and several other sites that are being developed with other partners to support teaching the Australian Curriculum
Teacher Ideas Exchange – a new project to enable self-sustaining networks for teachers. Target is the Australian Curriculum, but in reality ANY topic could be a network – eg Using Origami in Year 2
A Livebinder collection of ideas about QR codes in education.
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=51894
I had a conversation with a person early this year about using QR codes to
tag interesting parts of a foreshore walk near Montrose – not sure if she
proceeded but it would have been a good student project.
I only recently realised that the URL shortener bit.ly also produces QR
codes – just stick .qr on the end of the short url that bit.ly produces.
eg http://bit.ly/pdWITA.qr
An unusual use of QR codes is on headstones – these link visitors to a
website about the deceased.
See http://www.monuments.com/livingheadstone or
http://www.bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Interactive-Headstone-QR-Codes-1.jpg
And inevitably – the QR tattoo
http://www.barcodeart.com/store/wearable/qr_button/index.html . Perhaps it links to http://www.george-orwell.org/1984
http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/07/15/google-plus-and-the-future-of-sharing-educational-resources/
A straightforward and seemingly obvious idea: using the control of G+ to
share educational resources..
Rethinking school responsibilities
This post will become an extension of a paper I started to write in around October 2009 for ACEC2010. The paper was never completed as my employer generously funded me to attend ACEC, and some of the ideas in the paper were reasonably radical and in conflict with most conventional thinking in education jurisdictions. As this paper did not reflect the views of the organisation I represented at ACEC I did not feel it would be appropriate to present it, as it may have been misinterpreted as the views of my employer.
However since ACEC2010 the issues in the paper have become more important and have benn discussed in numerous professional communities. I have thus begun re-framing the paper in a way that aligns with the major issues facing ICT in education.
The paper represents my views, not those of my employer or the various organisations I represent.
Content will be added as it is edited.
Questions can be directed to me by email. You’ll find it if you look…
100 years after Ford’s Model T production line success, the US is subsidising the scrapping of old cars. Schools based on the same model are still with us – is it the right approach for the times? Tom March points out that wikipedia fulfils most of the ideal school criteria – respect, willingness to adapt, value colleagues, trust etc..
Does a crowd-sourced approach work better for education than a production line model?
Can schools learn from Wikipedias success? Or, WHAT can we learn?
Ken’s delicious links
The inevitable Facebook
