When you say 'screentime'...
Recent media commentators bemoaning children's technology use and talking about screentime as if it's a deadly disease, sound eerily...


That's quite a prolonged silence...
I'm terrible, I know. My last post was September. It's now the end of June. You could be forgiven for thinking I had died. I'm not dead...

It's the teaching, not the tech v.2
It's with a dizzying level of excitement that I embark upon my new role as a Digital Learning consultant with the Catholic Education...


Digital kids NEED networked teachers
There really are some moments when you come across someone who just inspires the hell out of you. When it happens it's incredibly special...


Digital portfolios for kids
Memorable learning events. That's it. That's the whole goal. That's what teachers consider the Holy Grail. That's what we work so hard to...


Teachers and Twitter; how's your 'twitteracy'?
Using Twitter for many educators who have already cultivated a personal learning network (PLN) is pretty much second nature. Finding and...


Embrace the luddites
I sat in a post-grad course yesterday full of other teachers from kindergarten to senior school, talking and listening to their ideas and...


There's technology in my classroom...now what?
One particularly difficult part of successfully managing and integrating educational technology and immersing your students in creative...

Teachers are rockstars
I'll admit I'm crazy jealous. Jealous of everyone who was able to get the time and funds to go to EduTech this week in Brisvegas....

Student's own websites
At an in-school professional development day, I found myself helping teachers realise the potential of creating their own classroom...
