Resources for Australian educators
In December 2016, Cymantha Cantrill won $1,000 toward professional learning in a competition run by Scootle. The Deputy Principal from Canberra elected to attend the ISTE Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The ISTE Conference & Expo is recognised globally as the most comprehensive educational technology conference in the world, with over 18,000 attendees seeking to…
Back in the early 80’s, my sister and I used to play a game called ‘the floor is lava’. The game had tremendously high stakes, and not only because of the trouble we would be in if Mum caught us. We imagined that the lounge room carpet was a sea of molten rock, and we…
We need to talk about the elephant. The elephant in the educational technology (virtual) room that is. Digital technology is an amplifier. It makes whatever it touches faster, more accessible, and more public. We can publish content to millions, creating internet sensations (thanks internet for Justin Bieber), and we can develop social movements with hashtags:…