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[|Pintrest Science]

[|e Learning] A great site to help understand where the Ministry is going with elearning and new developments

Registered teachers wikispace Fantastic!!! site with loads of links to help and examples of how to provide students with feedback, appraisals, all teacher needs.

Website of the fortnight

No set websites this term - take some time to go back and revisit some from earlier in the year or explore and find your own new ones to share!
 * Term Four 2010 **

**Week One**: educational wikis **Week three:** running the numbers **Week Five**: Committed Sardine - 100 ways to use social media in the classroom complete with ideas and examples. **Week Seven:** Story on line Lots of stories and related activities for teaching and learning. Learn English More stories, songs, listening activities etc to support teaching and learning of literacy. (More junior school focussed.) Scholastic News Scholastic News is a news site for Kids. It's an American site but contains international news.
 * Term Three 2010 **

__**Week Eleven**:__ **Teaching that makes sense**
 * Term Two 2010 **
 * __Week one:__ www.edhelper.com **
 * __Week thre__e: @http://www.gruffalo.com/index.html **
 * __Week five__ : Sumdog **
 * __Week Seven:__ Lego Digital Design**
 * __Week Nine:__ Toystory3 **


 * Term one 2010 **
 * __Week three:__ sparklebox.co.uk **
 * __Week five:__ primarygames.com **
 * __Week seven:__ @http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/ **
 * __Week nine:__  www.primarygames.com/holidays/easter/easter.htm **

__Teacher Resources:__
Sparkle Box Teaching resources and learning activities galore! Starfall.com A free site for reading games, activities and printables / photocopiables Ambleside Primary School All sorts of information, ideas and links for teaching, learning and development Kurwongbah State School All sorts of information, ideas and links for teaching, learning and development Eduplace Eduplace site with resources for teachers, features and current events for students and a section for families Teacher stuff Online resources and templates for teachers Awesome Clip Art for Kids Wordfinds, crosswords, resources, colouring pages etc etc etc Educational Software A wikispace with great ideas and inspiration for using __Comic Life__ along with other awesome ideas, supports etc. Software for Learning Check this out for some great ideas in using __Comic Life__ and __Flickr__ to create awesome mihi, language learning etc. Library events calendar All those 'themed' weeks - want to know when they are? click here to the library calendars etc Smart Kids Maths site for parents, students and teachers. Free to join, loads of games, resources etc. Netrover Great site for teachers with resources, games and __Smartboard__ / IWB activities Jenny Eather Writing fun ideas, resources you name it. Edhelper.com Thinking skill templates and layouts all free to download and print, along with many other teaching and learning resources. SHAPES good site for 2d and 3d shapes, has models that move and nets. Speeches using ICT Meredith Buchanan - speeches using ICT, smartboards and a range of other bits and bods with links etc Disasters Site Teacher resources and student on line learning, activities etc all related to disasters and survival. TVNZ Catalogue TVNZ licensing have created a webpage dedicated to the supply of recent and archival programmes on dvd for educational use. Teaching that Makes Sense Website resource for teachers linking to literacy of all kinds with helpful ideas, suggestions, templates etc Educational Wikis Wikis with just about everything to do with education - ideas, strategies, planning, ICT you name it, it is in here! Committed Sardine 100 ways to use social media in the classroom complete with examples of teachers using them with students etc to bring them into 21st century learning and life.

Story on line Lots of stories and related activities for teaching and learning. Learn English More stories, songs, listening activities etc to support teaching and learning of literacy. (More junior school focussed.) Scholastic News Scholastic News is a news site for Kids. It's an American site but contains international news.

__**Ministry Sites and other** **professional forum****s**__


 * Craig **


 * Ministry **


 * ICT CLuster Support Sites **


 * Other support sites **

**Links to Craig:**

** Craig ILT ** Link to Craig Chapmans Blog, Home page etc for ideas, hints, tips, tricks etc

** Ministry Links:**

 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">English Online Literacy resources, planning, assessment strategies and tools and literacy updates based on the New Zealand National Curriculum **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> NZ Curriculum Review Tool TKI link to self review in schools against National Standards etc **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> TKI A teachers book of just about everything **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> NZ Maths The New Zealand Maths website **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> NZEI Our friendly union **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Team Up Assessment Another TKI link specifically targeting assessment. **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> New Zealand Government **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ministry of Education **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> NZ Teachers Council for all those teacher registration forms that need to be completed and lots more. **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Leadspace Information, ideas etc for educational leaders. Building leadership in schools. **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> TKI Digistore The TKI site for all things digital **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Learning Media Learning Media on line learning network wiki **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Learning Media Learning Media Website **

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** ICT Cluster Support Sites:**


 * Otago Southland Cluster Network Wiki Link to the regional ICT contract cluster wiki**


 * Enrich Check out our very own ENRICH**


 * ICT PD Online ICT cluster professional site (you do need to be a member to log in to this)**

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Other Support Areas and Sites:**

<span style="color: #ab1c1c; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading Association The New Zealand Reading Association. Keep up to date with goings on in the literacy world with events, resources and loads of other bits and pieces. **

The Southland Times Current events at your finger tips. (Google newspapers from around the world - saves the money in buying them for international news)

Spectrum Education Resources for teaching and learning including thinking skills such as habits of mind etc

Ashton Scholastic Books, resources and literacy support site

iLearn Magazine A great education magazine for incorporating macs into teaching and learning

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Sarah Gibbs and 2 other co workers exploring with i-movie in Christchurch.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">**__Number Ones:__** Want to know the number one song at any given point in time - check out this link: www.joshhosler.biz

__** MULTIPLICATION HIPHOP **__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">10x tables <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;"> 4x tables
 * Here are just a couple examples of the multplication hiphop songs I was talking about at the Y5-8 QLC Day - D.Gray**
 * The website I purchased the songs from is:** [|**http://www.multiplicationhiphopforkids.com/**]

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;"> Kath Murdoch Texts : <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;">Fishpond Publications

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17.6px;"> __Sarah's Bits and Pieces too:__

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Thinking Skills Tool Kit Edit[| 0] 0 [| 9]… <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: center;">Ideas, templates, examples and resources for you to extend students thinking in the classroomacross all teaching and learning areas.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Tony Ryan's Thinker's Keys **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">DeBono's 6 Thinking Hats **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">DeBono's 6 Action Shoes **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Graphic Organisers **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Habits of Mind **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Bloom's Taxonomy **

__<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Tony Ryan Thinkers Keys: __ <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">

__<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Edward DeBono: 6 Thinking Hats __ <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: left;">

**__<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Edward DeBono: 6 Action Shoes: __**



**__<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Graphic Organisers: __** **__<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Habits of Mind: __****<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.1px;">[|HABITS OF MIND] ** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Resource site for online learning and discussion about Art Costa's Habits of Mind.

**__<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Blooms Taxonomy: __** <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Thinking and Questioning <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Edit[| 2] 0 [| 15]… <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Reflection: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px; text-align: left;">

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<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px; text-align: left;"> Questioning:

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px; text-align: left;"> ** Trevor Bond Video Link: ** **Trevor Bond video** <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13.5167px; text-align: left;"> Trevor Bond PERLL Wiki link the Art of Questioning <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px; text-align: left;">

=The following links provide some useful online tools that can be used by students to scaffold their thinking, and are suitable for promoting collaborative work in thinking and the exploration of ideas.= and concept-mapping tools available on the web check out the two links on Wikipedia here: || [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept_mapping_software] [] ||
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 * For a comprehensive list of mind-mapping

==[|Brain Games and Brain Training]== ==[|Critical & Creative Thinking]== ==Teaching Resources== ==[|Brainology]== <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Some great articles and readings available here
 * 1) [|Critical Thinking]
 * 2) [|Creative Thinking]
 * 3) [|Resources on Bloom's Taxonomy]
 * 4) [|Critical Thinking Resources]
 * 5) [|Examples and Applications of Critical Thinking]
 * 6) [|Creative Thinking Resources]
 * 7) [|Bloom's Taxonomy]

==[|Blooms Taxonomy Tutorials]== <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">The tutorials on this page include the //"Bloom's Taxonomy - An Overview"// and //"Bloom's Taxonomy - Designing Activities"//. Scroll down the page or use the table of contents' links to access the tutorials.

==[|Use Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel for Writing Learning Outcomes]== ==[|Brainstorming / Thinking Tools]== ==SOLO Resources (NZ)== ==[|Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom]== **This website is brought to you by the Thinking Skills team of teachers teaching Middle Primary schoolchildren in Malta. The programme is run by the Education Division, Department of Curriculum Management and supported by The Edward de Bono Institute for the Design and Development of Thinking. []**

==[|Thinking Skills]== <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Delicious bookmarks from Teaching Links UK

=[|Reflection Activities For the Classroom]= <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Reflection activities play an important role in helping us to analyze, understand, and gain meaning from professional development activities and classroom learning experiences. They provide productive processing time, which is essential if we expect learners to make meaning out of new information.

[|The Differentiator]
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">[|The Differentiator] is a cool online application designed to use Bloom’s Taxonomy and other similar thinking/planning “charts” to come-up with appropriate high-level student assignments

=[|Critical Thinking on the Web]=

[|Learning & Thinking Skills]
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">**teachingexpertise** education e-bulletins bring you news, information and topical resources direct to your inbox every week during term. Choose the titles to suit you and subscribe free today – or browse the archive for guidance, tips, activities, assemblies and more.

[|Brain-Based Learning]
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">What is brain-based or brain-compatible learning? <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> How can brain research be integrated into the classroom? <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> How does brain research relate to technology integration? <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Brain-based learning has been called a combination of [|brain science and common sense]. Hart (1983) called the brain "the organ of learning." He advocated learning more about the brain in order to design effective learning environments. Caine and Caine (1991) developed twelve principles that apply what we know about the function of the brain to teaching and learning. These principles were derived from an exploration of many disciplines and are viewed as a framework for thinking about teaching methodology. Read Caine and Caine's (1994) [|Mind/Brain Learning Principles] for the principles with brief descriptions, the longer descriptions, or to [|Caine's Website] for a diagram.

[|Brain Research]
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Blooms Resources from Larry Ferlazzo
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">[|Here’s a Bloom’s Taxonomy chart] that’s organized very simply, <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> [|Here’s another simple list] that contains the questions but, more importantly, good ideas on how to implement them in the classroom. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> This short article has an [|even smaller Verb Chart]that can serve as a reminder when planning lessons. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> I really like this site because of [|its list of “potential activities and products”] for each level. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> This site has good practical suggestions on [|how to apply Bloom’s to reading]. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> A blog called ESL School ran a series of posts last year on applying Bloom’s specifically to English Language Learners. Here are individual links to each of their posts: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> [|Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy] <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> [|Memory] <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> [|Understanding] <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> [|Applying and Analyzing] <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> [|More On Analyzing and Evaluating] <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Educational Origami has a wiki that is THE place to get ideas on how to relate technology to Bloom’s.

[|ICT Mindtools]
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">By ICT Mindtools I refer to ICT tools that necessarily engage users in higher order thinking. Students cannot use Mindtools without thinking deeply about the task at hand. Mindtools require students to be creative and to think and make connections for themselves.

[|Thinking Skills from INTEL]
== [|Thinking Skills Frameworks] ==

[|Independent Thinking]
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">For fifteen years Independent Thinking has been working to bring the best out of young people and those who work with them, focussing on areas including thinking, learning, motivation and creativity. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"> We strive to inform, inspire and shamelessly entertain, because education is too important to be taken seriously. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"> And we are committed to being unlike any other organisation in our field.

==[|Visual Ranking Tool] : Analyzing and Evaluating Information == <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> **Making a list is usually straightforward and requires little thought.** But when it comes to ordering and prioritizing items in that list, higher-level skills of analysis and evaluation are put to use. The //Visual Ranking Tool// brings focus to the thinking behind making ordered lists. Students identify and refine criteria as they assign order or ranking to a list. They must explain their reasoning and can compare their work with each other in a visual diagram. This tool supports activities where students need to organize ideas, debate differences, and reach consensus. ==[|Showing Evidence Tool] : Analyzing and Evaluating Information == <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> **Anyone can have an opinion, but backing it up with well-articulated evidence requires careful thinking.** The //Showing Evidence Tool// helps students learn how to construct well-reasoned arguments and prove their case with credible evidence. The tool provides a visual framework to make claims, identify evidence, evaluate the quality of that evidence, explain how the evidence supports or weakens claims, and reach conclusions based on the evidence. This thinking tool supports activities where students debate differences, make and defend decisions, and analyze conflicting information. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> The tool and related resources are available for free, from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Students may work on their claims and evidence at home or at school, and can be paired with another team to review their ideas. ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Thinking Skills in Education] == <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">An excellent overview of research into the effectiveness of thinking skills

** Bloom's Digital Taxonomy**
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Andrew Churches wiki

[|Lateral Thinking Puzzles]
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**Mobile Technology in the Classroom****The Fun Theory****Quotes and Thoughts****Facebook in Schools****Desktops Only Have Three Years Left****Not On The Test****Other Interesting Links and Sites**

** __ Mobile technology In The Classroom__ ** ** Newspaper article re cellphones in the classroom Cell phones in class <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11.7px; text-align: left;">The ugly side to cell phones in classes Cellphones in class #2 ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11.7px; text-align: left;"> Mobilise wiki This link leads to a wiki regarding mobilised technology for in and out of the classroom - worth a look. ** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11.7px; text-align: left;"> New York Times  The debate continues over mobile phones in the classroom ** Can't afford or don't have video cameras at school? What about this?

code At one school I have been working with this year, a teacher has been using cellphones to teach film techniques. He is in a low decile school, and realised nearly all students had cellphones, and most had ones with a camera function. So after showing students each of the shot types and camera angles, he then sent students out in groups of 2-3 and they had to gather examples of each shot type they had been shown. Students then paired up with another group and tested each other on shot types and angles.

This struck me as a really simple and sensible use of making the most of the "technology in their pocket".

Have you surveyed the class to see what technology they carry with them? It might pay to do online, as it is important that students don't feel they have to share publically what they do or don't own.

__Mobile Phones In The Classroom?!__

code How do you make your homework tasks worthwhile and challenging? What would you do with all your students phones in the class? What possibilities would this open up for your teaching and learning? **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">Email response to the newspaper articles above regarding the cell phone bullying. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Ah, yes, the Sunday Star Times articles. **The emotive story, about the student bullied on his cellphone** on the front page, aimed to paint modern technology as something to be feared or banned unless it could be actively managed by schools. A second article inside the paper explored the more positive side of the argument with **a description of the trial use of cellphones for learning at Howick College.** code

The issue of bullying existed long before cellphones, and it has always extended beyond school time, making it harder to manage. Schools have a duty to create a zero-tolerance culture towards bullying, regardless of how it is done. Banning technology because of the way it might be used serves only to drive poor behaviour underground, and even further from the school gates. Even the Howick College trial referred to their cyber-safety policy as being about banning phones for improper use rather than fostering positive peer group behaviour.

The use of technology in schools should be hand-in-hand with the way we plan learning, and cyber-safety is part of that. I would advocate schools taking advantage of the ubiquity of mobiles to explore relevant aspects of the curriculum, such as how we relate to others, how we manage ourselves, how the use of technology enables us to participate with the understanding that this brings responsibilities as well as rights. The only way to help young people learn how to manage and navigate the challenging issues that can arise in these situations is to work wi th students as they use these technologies.

Mobiles are particularly pertinent because of their ubiquity - which means that, should they be used for bullying, the reach of the bully can be much greater - all the more reason to help students manage the situation and keep the issue in the open. Cellphones, with web access, mean that students don't only need to know how to avoid bullies, but also how to manage other issues that arise with unfettered access to the internet.

While banning student access to a technology that they enjoy/need might be an appropriate step at some point down the line, I don't think it should be a first (reactionary?) step. The opportunities for maximising collaborative learning beyond the classroom, together with the need to prepare students to make the most of technologies in today's world, should be a key driver for promoting the use of technologies such as these. A positive, rather than negative, default position, I think.

Whether my child is going to be swimming with sharks or taking the bus into town on his own for the first time, I'd much rather he was prepared, knowledgeable, and supported than going into the situation blind.

Netsafe has some great advice on cyberbullying (**@http://www.cyberbullying.org.nz/**) and also a useful guide for helping students take responsibility: **[]**. code

Professional Learning Pages Edit[| 0] 0 [| 23]… **__<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">working with students, teachers etc during PL sessions can be found here. __**
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<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> Visual prompts and stimuli for writing / oral language <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> Jenny Eather Site <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> English on Line <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> Handwriting <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> Prezi

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12.8px;"> 1. Picture prompts for oral language and writing ** <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> **[|Fotosvarias1]**

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<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> Jenny Eather - Writing fun

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> English on Line - Features of written text forms

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> ** Handwriting - **   Use this template to support students with their keyboard skills. Print, laminate and use it at the beginning / end of handwriting to practice 'typing' letters, words and numbers with spaces and capital letters. Put it in reading / writing rotations etc. This is a simple way of familiarising students with the keyboard layout, making capital letters, identifying the letters and key location, spaces and even using two hands for typing as opposed to one or two fingers.

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> ** Prezi ** as a presentation tool <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> [|Mixing Mind and Metaphor] on [|Prezi]

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Tony Ryans thinkers keys - useful website to help with inquiry and literacy contracts. all subjects.

Thinkers Keys