Pokemon Go: What’s the Story?
Pokémon Go has a lot of teachers shaking their heads in bewilderment (at least, those teachers who...
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WeDo 2.0 – A Review
Recently, I represented MacICT at the product launch of LEGO® WeDo 2.0, LEGO Education Australia’s...
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The Case for Drones in Schools
Drones have recently taken the world by storm. So much so that in their 2015 K-12 Horizon Report,...
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Partnering with Bridges to Higher Education: Using LEGO robots to widen youth participation into tertiary education
Based within Macquarie University’s Widening Participation Team, Bridges to Higher Education...
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Beyond the Page: Transmedia Storytelling
So What is Transmedia Storytelling Anyway? Nowadays people are juggling a variety of media...
Read MoreLisa@ Camden Haven Public School talks about collaboration
Image via Wikipedia I was surprised to find my students working so well within their groups. I was fortunate to witness one of my students, have a ‘light-bulb’ moment when he discovered how valuable he can be to his groups’...
Read MoreAugmented interactivity takes us new places.
Image via Wikipedia At first I was skeptical about augmented reality, I thought it was just a gimmicky way to display information. Now I’m seeing that your device knowing exactly where you are and in what direction you...
Read MoreHTML5 and interactivity
A couple of articles (Lifehacker and Infoworld) have recently tried to explain how HTML5 will change the web. Basically I think the message is it will make interaction – easier, sharper, more focused and more useful, more...
Read MoreTracey@CHS talks about students understanding outcomes
The students have already worked on a collaborative project on the Roman forum.We asked them to produce a LAMS activity that reflected an outcome, selected by them, of one point on the topic they covered. Their response was...
Read MoreInteracting with Mother Nature using iPad
Simple interaction. MacICT and I have started working with a teacher from Westport High. We are using LAMS to create interactive learning sequences that allow students to engage with their environment. The school has a...
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WeDo 2.0 – A Review
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