As a I currently have the opportunity to contribute a solution to one of these, I wondered if there would be other educators keen to help me refine the idea by leaving comments and suggestions if there are additions or suggestions you think could improve my pitch. One source of help might just be the SAMR model of Dr Puentedura – but pitched not as a lesson or unit analysis tool – but as a life journey. I’ve chosen a particularly trick problem – Rethinking Teaching. First, view the short intro presentation I’ve created with Haiku Deck. MORE >>

Even those who can see that a digital education is key to help give students a chance to connect with a wider world and create their own solutions to such problems may have other questions such as “what about our existing curriculum and mandated testing?”, My offering here in this debate, gleaned from spending a few years now working in my own school, with teachers across my state, and now across the country to help teachers integrate technology in their pedagogy amounts to this – there is a middle way. That’s a lot of us. You see what I did there? So, should we aim high? MORE >>

Once hyped as the ‘$100 laptop’ at at time when such machines cost many hundreds more, the final manufacturing price of the XO-1 was closer to $200 plus – but even so the impact of the XO’s development was enough to shock traditional computer companies such as Intel and Microsoft into helping birth the netbook and focusing on emerging markers with new energy. At the time I never dreamed I’d get the chance in 2009 to trial them at my own primary school, or help manage the deployment of thousands of them across Australia. Based on use of an early XO with touchscreen prototype. MORE >>

I’m sure a whole ecosystem of support products will arise to help educators get the most out of the interactive features in iBooks Author – 3D object galleries etc. The tips below are even better in that it concerns a program that’s already out so you can start right now: [link]. mobile/miniaturisation uLearning ebooks iBooks iPad mlearning MORE >>

May also help those students who ‘multi-task’ a bit too much. What will be in iOS6 for educators? Every year at this time, Apple has used the opening of its World Wide Developers Conference to preview what the next version of the iPhone and iPad operating system will bring. Amongst the purported 200 new features we will see when iOS version 6 is released in our Spring (Fall in the USA), I wanted to detail three of those announced overnight that in my opinion will be most useful for educators and schools. ll also touch on something that might be a concern. Do-not-disturb switch. MORE >>