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"As a teacher, I always tried to bring in pictures, games, music and other visual and aural aids to help liven up my classes. Creating the New 7 Wonders of the World game app is a natural extension of this."
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Published: 6/05/2013
The global education sector significantly increased its hardware spending in 2012, investing a total of $11.6 billion. This amounts to a rise of 23%, which is all the more impressive when education budget constraints are taken into account, ChannelWeb has reported. The website was citing data from...
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Published: 6/05/2013
The world that today's fourth-graders will be launched into, when they begin their adult lives, will be different in ways we can't hope to guess now. Along with math, science and English, today's... more >
Published: 3/05/2013
The more modern American classrooms would be hardly recognizable to a teacher of the 19th century. Gone are the one-room buildings, the long benches, the pieces of slate, and the sticks of chalk. The... more >
Published: 3/05/2013
In 2009 a 19-year-old graduating senior from Hong Kong's International School named Charles Watson, armed with a rudimentary computer, took a year off from starting university to journey to Nepal to... more >
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Write It VS Free: The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword (www.writeitvs.co) is a fun, educational word game that pits your creativity and word skills against the evil Mr Sharks. Engage the storyteller in you and invent your own innovative plot. Can you beat the evil Mr Sharks in just 140 characters?
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Want to optimise study time? Brainscape (www.brainscape.com) is designed to help you learn anything as efficiently as possible through the use of ‘solid cognitive science’. All you have to do is rate how well you know each concept and Brainscape determines when to quiz you again.
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Microsoft Flight lets choose from a variety of aircraft in a gameplay environment. Test your skills at free flight or set off on a multitude of pre-assigned missions, challenges and ‘aerocache’ hunts to build your virtual flying career and earn points. Just download and play.
www.microsoftflight.com
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Google Earth has its own built-in flight simulator feature that allows you to fly around any part of the world. To enter the flight simulator click ‘Tools’, then ‘Enter Flight Simulator’. You need to choose the aircraft – the SR22 is a slower plane and easier for beginners – and your start position. A head-up display (HUD) will appear showing the flying controls and you use the mouse to operate the plane (or a joystick if you have one).
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We have started our topic by looking at the treaty of Waitangi and the people in New Zealand in 1840. We split into 5 groups and decorated a waka with the things important to each group. Then we had a race.
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Here are two awesome web apps for practicing your typing skills. Typing Monster - seriously fast [ for expert typers] and Typing Tide Pool - for learners.
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Today we are going take part in a Mystery Skype session with another class. We have to work out where in the world they are! We will have to ask some really intelligent questions to work that out!
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Today Constable Wong spoke to Room 16 and Room 17 about cyber safety. We are learning to be digital citizens and his messages were very helpful. Here is a short animated video I created using Go Animate. It is one of the sites on the Writing Symbaloo at the bottom of the blog.
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FEATURED IN OUR LATEST ISSUE...
Published: 2/05/2013
| Issue 47
A passion for games and travel led retired principal Michael Gifford to design and create an educational computer game for learning about the ‘New 7 Wonders of the World’.
What is your game about?
The ‘New 7 Wonders of the World’ (www. new7wondersgame.com ) is a new, innovative, fun-filled computer... more
Published: 2/05/2013
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A report by the Education and Science Committee into digital literacy in schools made 48 recommendations. Here Associate Education Minster Nikki Kaye talks to INTERFACE about the Government’s response.
The Government has given the go-ahead to six of the 48 recommendations in the Education and Science Committee’s digital... more
Published: 2/05/2013
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Looking for an engaging way to improve technology, literacy and social skills all in one go? QuadBlogging could just be the answer, as teacher Claire Buist explains.
Blogging is a popular activity that’s having a huge impact on learning and teaching in classrooms throughout the country.
If you want to take it one step further, you... more
Published: 2/05/2013
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In recent years, an increasing number of teachers are using digital content competitions to enhance work being done in the classroom. If you’d like to join them, Mix & Mash offers one such opportunity in 2013.
From videos and music to raw data and digitised archives, the web is packed with some great New Zealand content. Much of it is... more
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