Last week I had the pleasure to witness seven Stage 3 students from our school demonstrate their skills at making games to an audience of 80 teachers at the NSW Department of Education and Training’s Connected Learning Conference last week.
Three of the students presenting at the Conference had formal training in how to use Gamemaker at [...]
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While in Scotland, more precisely Dundee. I had the pleasure of visiting Derek Robertson in LTS Consolarium. My colleague Kim and I had an amazing time engaging with hardware and software that appeared to have great potential in the classroom.
LTS were running a trial using the Brain Training Program and Derek reported that all students [...]
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While it is really good to be living in the peace and relative freedom that exists in this large land of ours, Australia, it has enormous drawbacks and detractors.
Our country is so large, our population so small and so isolated. To engage in dialogue with educators who have similar views and ideals is nigh on impossible. [...]
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In March I was just beginning to get a roll on with writing my Blog. Then it happened we were one teacher down and a class out of control. (I could take the mickey out of myself and say “Super Principal to the rescue”) I had to go into a classroom and shock horror actually [...]
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Getting the balance right is not really about curriculum. That is far too simple an explanation for the issue that is confronting all levels of educators from all around the world in the 21st Century. It is about getting the working relationship between students and teachers in balance. Recognising there is a time to be [...]
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