Academic Skill Builders http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
This site offers educational games, predominantly numeracy and literacy concepts, for children while incorporating arcade style themes. These games claim to offer ‘ an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills by incorporating features of arcade games and educational practices into on-line games that will motivate, intrigue and teach your students.’ The games provided, scaffold students learning through investigating different ways of thinking also enabling a development of student evaluation processes.
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Website
Brain Connection http://www.brainconnection.com
This site contains information on the science of how the brain works and is a fantastic tool for teachers with specific links for educators including games for students to play enabling educators to understand their students’ learning styles.
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This site contains information on the science of how the brain works and is a fantastic tool for teachers with specific links for educators including games for students to play enabling educators to understand their students’ learning styles.
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Website
Cam Art, Science and Technology http://www.camartech.com.au/
This is a Victorian based website although still very useful for educators incorporating visual arts and science into technology units. The site is full of units and ideas incorporating a range of world issues such as the environment and cultural art.
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This is a Victorian based website although still very useful for educators incorporating visual arts and science into technology units. The site is full of units and ideas incorporating a range of world issues such as the environment and cultural art.
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Website
Classroom Architect http://classroom.4teachers.org/
This site offers a computer program for students to create their own classroom floor plan. It is known that students learning is affected by the surrounding environment and this resource provides an excellent tool for teachers to learn about their students simultaneously with student learning.
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This site offers a computer program for students to create their own classroom floor plan. It is known that students learning is affected by the surrounding environment and this resource provides an excellent tool for teachers to learn about their students simultaneously with student learning.
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Website
Gold Coast City Council: Ready Set Teach http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard.aspx?pid=4543
This website contains modules and units, ready to teach, for any year level. The units or modules are connected to the Queensland Syllabus outcomes and are fantastic tools for teachers, along with incorporating other services that the Gold Coast City Council have to offer. Although there is not a specific subject area of technology to search through, these modules or units provide valuable information on a variety of ways of engaging students in the investigation, ideation and evaluation phases of technology education.
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This website contains modules and units, ready to teach, for any year level. The units or modules are connected to the Queensland Syllabus outcomes and are fantastic tools for teachers, along with incorporating other services that the Gold Coast City Council have to offer. Although there is not a specific subject area of technology to search through, these modules or units provide valuable information on a variety of ways of engaging students in the investigation, ideation and evaluation phases of technology education.
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Website
The Learning Place Curriculum Exchange: Education Queensland http://education.qld.gov.au/learningplace/cx/
Although this site requires a user login and password, which is difficult to get unless you work with Education Queensland, it is every teachers ‘dream resource’. You can search for curriculum exchange resources by topic, curriculum area, cross-curricular area and resource type plus many more. An absolute must for all educators!
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Although this site requires a user login and password, which is difficult to get unless you work with Education Queensland, it is every teachers ‘dream resource’. You can search for curriculum exchange resources by topic, curriculum area, cross-curricular area and resource type plus many more. An absolute must for all educators!
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Website
Qld Government Department of Education, Training and the Arts http://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/area/technology/resources.html
The most important resource a teacher will ever need when teaching Technology Education. This website includes the current syllabus documents along with materials, source book modules, curriculum authorities and subject area association materials.
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The most important resource a teacher will ever need when teaching Technology Education. This website includes the current syllabus documents along with materials, source book modules, curriculum authorities and subject area association materials.
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Website
Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
This is a fantastic website for teachers to create rubric assessment sheets in minutes. The site could also be used with students assisting teacher in designing an assessment rubric sheet, enhancing students understanding and requirements of the task/challenge at a deeper level, also providing them with a sense of ownership.
Teachers can create their own rubrics in any of the following areas: Oral Projects, Multimedia, Math, Reading, Writing, Products, Work Skills, Art, Science and Music. The site enables you to save your rubrics as a draft and retrieve when desired.
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This is a fantastic website for teachers to create rubric assessment sheets in minutes. The site could also be used with students assisting teacher in designing an assessment rubric sheet, enhancing students understanding and requirements of the task/challenge at a deeper level, also providing them with a sense of ownership.
Teachers can create their own rubrics in any of the following areas: Oral Projects, Multimedia, Math, Reading, Writing, Products, Work Skills, Art, Science and Music. The site enables you to save your rubrics as a draft and retrieve when desired.
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Human Resources
Bunnings Warehouse http://www.bunnings.com.au/
Bunnings provides brochures, workshops and design tools to help in the production of just about anything. They provide D.I.Y workshops for all ages to help understand the correct process and/or methods when developing a product. Bunnings Warehouse encourages the sustainment of our environment and promotes recycling and water conservation, also emphasising the values we want ‘the future’ to hold.
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Bunnings provides brochures, workshops and design tools to help in the production of just about anything. They provide D.I.Y workshops for all ages to help understand the correct process and/or methods when developing a product. Bunnings Warehouse encourages the sustainment of our environment and promotes recycling and water conservation, also emphasising the values we want ‘the future’ to hold.
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Human Resources
Gold Coast City Council: Council Education Services http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard.aspx?pid=4246
The Gold Coast City Council’s website provides a number of programs for school students. Whether you take the class on an excursion or provide guest speakers from the council, your class will definitely benefit from participating in such a meaningful and connected community service.
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The Gold Coast City Council’s website provides a number of programs for school students. Whether you take the class on an excursion or provide guest speakers from the council, your class will definitely benefit from participating in such a meaningful and connected community service.
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Human Resource
Jason Zagami http://www.zagami.info
ZOLT Zeitgeist ‘the spirit of the age, describes the intellectual and cultural climate of our era’ is a website on Jason Zagami’s involvement in many aspects of the technology education world, including Technology Challenges amongst schools on the Gold Coast.
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ZOLT Zeitgeist ‘the spirit of the age, describes the intellectual and cultural climate of our era’ is a website on Jason Zagami’s involvement in many aspects of the technology education world, including Technology Challenges amongst schools on the Gold Coast.
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Human Resources
Parents, School staff, family, friends, co-teachers, local community experts – anyone who can provide students with connected, relevant information.
The tool of using experts, not ordinarily thought of as such, is underestimated in classroom settings. Students can have a sense of ownership with their own and others learning when connected, relevant human resources are used in technology education.
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The tool of using experts, not ordinarily thought of as such, is underestimated in classroom settings. Students can have a sense of ownership with their own and others learning when connected, relevant human resources are used in technology education.
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Companies/Organisations
4 Teachers Organisation: Teach with Technology http://www.4teachers.org/
This website is a fantastic resource for teachers with an endless supply of links to extremely useful websites ranging from simple Math to Persuasive Writing. This site is a must for all educators with particular focus on the integration of ICT’s with all other learning areas. The site also has many useful links for teachers, helping with the creation of assessment documents as well as on-line professional development courses.
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This website is a fantastic resource for teachers with an endless supply of links to extremely useful websites ranging from simple Math to Persuasive Writing. This site is a must for all educators with particular focus on the integration of ICT’s with all other learning areas. The site also has many useful links for teachers, helping with the creation of assessment documents as well as on-line professional development courses.
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Companies/Organisations
By Teachers Organisation UK http://www.byteachers.org.uk/
The Association of Teachers website is an organisation that teachers are able to subscribe to, completely FREE, claiming to be a well organised, easily navigated, high quality site providing teachers with resources for any key learning area.
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The Association of Teachers website is an organisation that teachers are able to subscribe to, completely FREE, claiming to be a well organised, easily navigated, high quality site providing teachers with resources for any key learning area.
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Companies/Organisations
Curriculum Corporation http://www.curriculum.edu.au/ccsite/teachers_and_schools,17541.html
This organisation provides a multitude of avenues from the page listed above. There is information on other useful organisations including professional development, lesson plans, project and resources and much, much more!
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This organisation provides a multitude of avenues from the page listed above. There is information on other useful organisations including professional development, lesson plans, project and resources and much, much more!
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Companies/Organisations
International Society for Technology in Education http://www.iste.org/
ISTE is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the professional development, knowledge generation and leadership for innovation to improve learning, teaching and school leadership whose motto is; ‘Providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education’.
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ISTE is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the professional development, knowledge generation and leadership for innovation to improve learning, teaching and school leadership whose motto is; ‘Providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education’.
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Companies/Organisations
Questacon: The National Science and Technology Centre http://www.questacon.edu.au/index.html
This is an absolutely brilliant resource for teachers and students. Questacon was developed in 1988 in Canberra and aims to achieve greater promotion, understanding and awareness of science and technology within communities and is committed to make anyone’s experience with science and technology fun, educational and interactive. All teachers should look at this organisation and all students should be introduced to the site.
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This is an absolutely brilliant resource for teachers and students. Questacon was developed in 1988 in Canberra and aims to achieve greater promotion, understanding and awareness of science and technology within communities and is committed to make anyone’s experience with science and technology fun, educational and interactive. All teachers should look at this organisation and all students should be introduced to the site.
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Text & Print
Baron, A., Ivers, R. (2006). Multimedia Projects in Education: Designing, Producing and Assessing (3rd Ed), Libraries Unlimited Westport, CT.
A great teacher resource using the DDD-E model (Decide, Design, Develop and, Evaluate), explaining how to select and plan design challenges using a range of multimedia tools/resources. The book begins, delving into research of cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, and constructivism while providing practical ideas to implement these theories, through multimedia projects, into classrooms. The book focuses on student learning outcomes and suggests it is a good resource for undergraduate and graduate level students in educational technology courses. Challenges come with scenarios, overviews, topics and reproducible worksheets that can be easily adapted for different levels, as well as assessment rubrics.
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A great teacher resource using the DDD-E model (Decide, Design, Develop and, Evaluate), explaining how to select and plan design challenges using a range of multimedia tools/resources. The book begins, delving into research of cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, and constructivism while providing practical ideas to implement these theories, through multimedia projects, into classrooms. The book focuses on student learning outcomes and suggests it is a good resource for undergraduate and graduate level students in educational technology courses. Challenges come with scenarios, overviews, topics and reproducible worksheets that can be easily adapted for different levels, as well as assessment rubrics.
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Text & Print
Barron, A., Ivers, K., Lilavois, N., Wells, J. (2006). Technologies for Education: A Practical Guide 5th Edition, Westport, Connecticut London.
An extremely current overview of how technologies can be best applied in classroom settings and how technology, in general, is impacting on education today. The book can be used as a resource book, a textbook or a guide for pre-service or in-service educators providing a wealth of information while relating technology education to ‘real-life’. This is a must have resources for all teachers who intend to bridge the technology gap.
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An extremely current overview of how technologies can be best applied in classroom settings and how technology, in general, is impacting on education today. The book can be used as a resource book, a textbook or a guide for pre-service or in-service educators providing a wealth of information while relating technology education to ‘real-life’. This is a must have resources for all teachers who intend to bridge the technology gap.
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Text & Print
Dick, B., Ramsay, B., Ryan, J., (1995). Technology Curriculum and Teaching Program: Using The Technology Profile. Carlton, Victoria.
This book has been created to assist teachers in planning, assessing, recording and reporting in technology and can be used in conjunction with syllabus documents and statements. All of the authors have many years experience in the education field and provide activities all throughout the book enabling teachers with practical ways/ideas to practise the skills of judging, recording and reporting within the technology learning area.
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This book has been created to assist teachers in planning, assessing, recording and reporting in technology and can be used in conjunction with syllabus documents and statements. All of the authors have many years experience in the education field and provide activities all throughout the book enabling teachers with practical ways/ideas to practise the skills of judging, recording and reporting within the technology learning area.
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Text & Print
Haughland, S., Wright, J. (1997). Young Children and Technology: A World of Discovery, Needham Heights, Massachusetts.
This book provides strategies and examples of how to integrate technology use into young students’ lives at school. The authors’ evaluate developmentally appropriate software, and while they focus on computer technology integration in the classroom elaborating on the benefits and potential dangers, they also delve into the importance of students themselves evaluating and creating their own software enabling a deeper understanding of what they are doing and why.
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This book provides strategies and examples of how to integrate technology use into young students’ lives at school. The authors’ evaluate developmentally appropriate software, and while they focus on computer technology integration in the classroom elaborating on the benefits and potential dangers, they also delve into the importance of students themselves evaluating and creating their own software enabling a deeper understanding of what they are doing and why.
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Text & Print
Hawker Brownlow Education http://www.hbe.com.au/PUBLIC/HBEItemImages/pdf/CO7149.pdf
This is an excellent paper on designing brain-compatible learning experiences, written by Terence Parry and Gayle Gregory, giving an eight page succinct summary on how the brain learns. Very useful information as well as being quick and easy to read, traits that suit teacher schedules!
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This is an excellent paper on designing brain-compatible learning experiences, written by Terence Parry and Gayle Gregory, giving an eight page succinct summary on how the brain learns. Very useful information as well as being quick and easy to read, traits that suit teacher schedules!
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Text & Print
Inter-American Development Bank. (1998). Education in the Information Age, deMoura Castro, C (ed), New York, Washington D.C.
Education in the Information age combines the experience of school officials, representatives and academics from government and business who participated in a 1997 seminar sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. This book is not about new ideas or theoretical models on technology education but rather the arduous task of finding out what works when integrating technology use into education systems, including media.
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Education in the Information age combines the experience of school officials, representatives and academics from government and business who participated in a 1997 seminar sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. This book is not about new ideas or theoretical models on technology education but rather the arduous task of finding out what works when integrating technology use into education systems, including media.
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Text & Print
Parry, T., Gregory, G. (1998). Designing Brain Compatible Learning, Arlington Heights, IL.
Both authors of this book are extremely experienced in the field of teaching on all levels and suggest ways of designing learning experiences for students that combine the best aspects of both – ways of knowing and learning, and ways of teaching. The authors have combined the wealth of information on how these occur and condensed it into a teacher friendly format while focussing on powerful research based instructional strategies which should be familiar to teachers.
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Both authors of this book are extremely experienced in the field of teaching on all levels and suggest ways of designing learning experiences for students that combine the best aspects of both – ways of knowing and learning, and ways of teaching. The authors have combined the wealth of information on how these occur and condensed it into a teacher friendly format while focussing on powerful research based instructional strategies which should be familiar to teachers.
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Text & Print
Sousa, D. (2006). How The Brain Learns, 3rd Edition. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, California.
This book is designed to show educators how to ‘use the power of neuroscience to develop better students in your class.’ Sousa has an excellent way of explaining the intricate process our brains encounter when learning; and supplies practical, achievable ways of implementing this understanding to help students process and retain information.
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This book is designed to show educators how to ‘use the power of neuroscience to develop better students in your class.’ Sousa has an excellent way of explaining the intricate process our brains encounter when learning; and supplies practical, achievable ways of implementing this understanding to help students process and retain information.
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Multimedia - CD
ABC Shop http://www.abcshop.com.au
The ABC Shop provides endless fantastic music resources that can be incorporated into technology units although it does cost money! If chosen wisely and used in effective ways, the resources you do purchase might make the difference for some of your students between knowing or remembering and understanding.
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The ABC Shop provides endless fantastic music resources that can be incorporated into technology units although it does cost money! If chosen wisely and used in effective ways, the resources you do purchase might make the difference for some of your students between knowing or remembering and understanding.
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Media - DVD
ABC Shop http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/format.asp?formatid=2
The above link takes you directly to the page of DVD’s available from the ABC Shop. Just enter the subject area you would like to search and with a click you have an endless supply, varying in price range, of DVD’s useful for that topic or subject area. The search component of this site could also be used to source the names of suitable DVD’s and search for them through free avenues.
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The above link takes you directly to the page of DVD’s available from the ABC Shop. Just enter the subject area you would like to search and with a click you have an endless supply, varying in price range, of DVD’s useful for that topic or subject area. The search component of this site could also be used to source the names of suitable DVD’s and search for them through free avenues.
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Media - DVD
Gold Coast City Council Library Services http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/libraries/
Combining all branches, libraries supply educators with an enormous range of DVD’s for facilitating student understanding while actively supplying students with different modes of learning and understanding supporting educational theories.
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Combining all branches, libraries supply educators with an enormous range of DVD’s for facilitating student understanding while actively supplying students with different modes of learning and understanding supporting educational theories.
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Media - Software
Inspiration Software Inc. http://inspiration.com
This company provides software for students to construct all types of visual organisations. There are a range of products available aimed at different ages, involving differing complexity in what can be produced.
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This company provides software for students to construct all types of visual organisations. There are a range of products available aimed at different ages, involving differing complexity in what can be produced.
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Media - Software
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0
Although this program can be quite difficult for novices, it is a fantastic tool for students to create their own web pages giving students an alternate way of presenting information while analysing how the pages they refer to frequently are constructed.
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Although this program can be quite difficult for novices, it is a fantastic tool for students to create their own web pages giving students an alternate way of presenting information while analysing how the pages they refer to frequently are constructed.
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Media - Video
Games in Education (Google Video)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6117726917684965691
This is a 22 minute video available free on-line analysing the use of video games in Technology Education. They offer a number of academic speakers from a number of perspectives and relate the use of video games as an aid to help students visualise what they are learning especially through simulation games.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6117726917684965691
This is a 22 minute video available free on-line analysing the use of video games in Technology Education. They offer a number of academic speakers from a number of perspectives and relate the use of video games as an aid to help students visualise what they are learning especially through simulation games.
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Media - Video
TED Ideas Worth Spreading http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
This is actually a website with a video on the link listed above. It is an absolutely brilliant video of a presentation on ‘Photosynth’, a new program created to turn photos into ‘multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.’ Its architect shows it off and speaks of how this type of technology would, for example, provide people with a more realistic perspective of size when looking at maps, if this software was used, to enhance complex thinking.
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This is actually a website with a video on the link listed above. It is an absolutely brilliant video of a presentation on ‘Photosynth’, a new program created to turn photos into ‘multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.’ Its architect shows it off and speaks of how this type of technology would, for example, provide people with a more realistic perspective of size when looking at maps, if this software was used, to enhance complex thinking.
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