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It appears that the planets have aligned to provide the opportunity to marry some of my teaching duties with the very interesting Pre-Service Teaching Networking (#pstn) project. The project's about page gives a pretty good description and ther's more detail in a related Google doc. There's also more in the project's outline....more...
The following is a summary/reflection upon "Making better connections: Models of teacher professional development for the integration of information and communication technology into classroom practice". A report funded by the Australian Federal Department of Education written by a range of folk, including a few names I recognise....more...
And so it's onto chapter 2 of the set text for the ICTs and Pedagogy courses I'm going to be teaching....more...
After a couple of weeks off-line, I'm slowly catching up on making public some writing. This post is a follow up to a previous post with some initial thoughts on the ICT and Pedagogy course I'm teaching this term. There were some great comments on that post which I need to think and write about, but later. This post is a collection of some impressions and reactions to the first chapter of the set text for the course....more...
In a little under a month's time I am meant to be in charge of the course EDC3100 ICT and Pedagogy at the University of Southern Queensland. The first time I've taught a course since in almost 6 years, should be fun. This is one of the responsibilities of the new job that I haven't quite yet started. For various reasons, however, I can't help be start thinking about the course....more...
This is interesting (hat tip to @timbuckteeth). English schools will no longer be teaching Information and Communications Technology (ICT) study - a situation where students are bored out of their minds learning Word and Excel by bored teachers - and instead will be taught "more rigorous computer science and programming"....more...