It was reported today that the Australian Education Union in Victoria is taking the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) to court over the requirement of Victorian teachers to lease a laptop for school use. Jewel Topsfield from The Age reported: A highly contentious requirement that teachers at state schools fork out for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'teacher tools'
Should teachers have to pay for the technology they use?
April 6, 2013 · 5 Comments · school mangement, Teaching
Tags: iPad·iPads·notebooks·teacher tools·teaching
Evernote – an attempt at the definitive summary of teacher uses!
February 7, 2012 · 26 Comments · Teaching, Web 2.0
Well it’s been just over 2 years since I tentatively pulled out my iPhone in class and trialled using the app ‘Evernote’ for the first time. If it wasn’t love at first use, it sure was close. Since then I’ve blogged about it, talked at numerous conferences about it, posted hundreds of tweets declaring my [...]
Tags: Assessment·Evernote·teacher tools
Update on Victorian Teacher Notebook Scandal
September 7, 2011 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized
It’s been a bit over a week since my original blog post and it certainly has been a wild ride. The post generated 2 front page articles in The Age newspaper in Victoria, news coverage on ABC radio, Macworld magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald and Herald-Sun websites, and even an education news site from the [...]
Tags: DEECD·notebooks·teacher tools·teaching
Victorian Teacher Notebook Scandal
August 26, 2011 · 73 Comments · Teaching
Australian teachers are respected around the world as high quality innovative educators. That is perhaps no more true than in Victoria, where education has benefitted from a forward thinking, inovation encouraging government and Department of Education (named DEECD in Victoria) over the last 5 – 10 years. But after a change to a conservative government [...]
Tags: DEECD·notebooks·teacher tools·teaching
