Laptops and Learning Resources

Portable computers supporting secondary school learning

http://education.curtin.edu.au/waier/forums/1999/newhouse.html

Teaching with Laptops: Some Ideas to Get You Started

Starting a full-blown laptop program is a prime example of the old chicken-and-egg problem. Does a school purchase the hardware before teachers have experience using it (potentially, a huge waste of money), or does it wait until faculty have developed units around the use of these tools (hard to do without the laptops) so the transition is smooth.

http://www.newcurriculum.com/2001/ed10-15.htm

Strategies for teachers in reading in the Middle School Years

http://www.myread.org/

Students Treat Laptops with TLC

http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56295,00.html

Laptops

http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56212-2,00.html

Notebook Programme for Students

In recent years a number of schools have trialled the use of notebook computers for students on a 1-to-1 basis. The intention of this webpage is to provide links to research that investigates the value of notebook computers in education and curriculum strategies that make best use of them in the learning process.

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/notebooks/

Thematic Focus: Technologies and Learning

http://www.techknowlogia.org/

The effects of using laptop computers in Science

http://education.curtin.edu.au/waier/forums/1998/fisher.html

21st-Century Skills

A research-based discussion of the skills needed by students and workers in the emerging Digital Age.

http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm

Stella

Standards for Teachers of English and Literacy in Australia

http://www.stella.org.au/

http://www.copyrightaware.gov.au/

Photographic Libraries

http://www.photographiclibraries.com/

The Information Process

The ability to find and use information is expressed in the Curriculum Framework as one of the Overarching Learning Outcomes. “Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others." Information skills assist people to satisfy their changing information needs, pursue independent lifelong learning and contribute to the development of an informed society.

http://www.geocities.com/informationprocess/

Curriculum Framework Support Material

http://www.curriculum.wa.edu.au/support/

The Year of the Official

Following the success of the Fair Go For Officials forums in 2002, the Federal Minister for Sport Senator Rod Kemp, announced that 2003 (in Australian sporting circles) would be The Year of the Official.

http://www.ausport.gov.au/yearoftheofficial/

Online Answers Australia

http://ref3.247ref.org/wcscgi/CDM.exe?SS_COMMAND=CUST_SUP&Category=AUNLA

Learning and Teaching Information Technology Computer Skills in Context

http://www.ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-2002-04.shtml

The West Australian Literacy and Numeracy Assessment

WALNA is a curriculum-based assessment that is criterion-referenced and tests students' knowledge and skills in numeracy, reading, spelling and writing. The WALNA test is administered annually to students in years 3, 5 and 7.

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/walna/

Information Literacy

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/curriculum/infolit/

The Information Process - Checklist Skills for accessing, evaluating and using information form part of the Information Process. Students are able to develop these skills each time they conduct an investigation or do a research assignment. While using this process students can achieve outcomes across all learning areas.

Big6

A process method that gets students organized, thinking about their needs and the work that they do.

http://www.big6.com/

Australians at War

http://www.australiansatwar.com.au/

VET

http://www.edna.edu.au/vet/news/

Engaging Citizens

http://www.citizenscape.wa.gov.au/

Mathematical Art

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/index.asp

Exploratium

The museum of Art, Science and Human Perception

http://www.exploratorium.org/

About Special Forever: An environmental communications project.

http://www.specialforever.org.au/

Oceans Education, the education website of the National Oceans Office.

http://www.oceans.gov.au/education/home.jsp

The Geo-Mystery Project

http://www.hern.hawaii.edu/hern96/pt053/GEOMYstery/geomys.html

The National Centre for History Education

http://www.hyperhistory.org/

Matching the rhetoric to practice: IL and ICT Literacy

http://www.jw.net.au/resources/JuneWall_IASL2002_Paper.rtf and

http://www.jw.net.au/resources/Rhetoric%20to%20practice.ppt

Joining an Online Community

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/pd/communities/index.htm

StarFest 2003

http://www.ozskywatch.com/spec/2003/StarFest_2003/

Virtually hosted by Calwell High School http://www.calwellhs.act.edu.au/ StarFest 2003 is intended to be a Nation-wide week-long series of astronomical events aimed at inspiring you to explore the Universe in some way!

Curriculum Leadership

http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/leader/newcms/leader_view_issue.asp

Video Conferencing in the Classroom

http://www.devon.gov.uk/dcs/a/video/ and

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/vidconf.html