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Issue 19 | Published: 30/09/2009
Imagine a world where all the teaching resources you need – lesson plans, handouts, textbooks, and more – are freely available for you to use and modify without restriction. Wayne Mackintosh wants to make it happen… but he needs your help. As a teacher, I find it difficult to use someone else’s lesson plan or teaching materials. I want to have the freedom to adapt and modify the materials to suite my own teaching style. There are ‘no-cost’ resources available online but many have copyright and usage restrictions. That’s why I’m supporting Open Educational Resources (OER) and specifically an OER initiative here in New Zealand. Introducing OER New Zealand’s OER initiative is an online community whose aim is to create an education...

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Issue 19 | Published: 30/09/2009
Teachers should focus on information and learning, not on the technology and simply getting ICT into their classrooms, believes David Warlick. How is ICT changing what teachers can do? Technology has done a lot but what's really impacting on teachers is how information is changing. A number of years ago I wrote a book called Redefining Literacy. It started out being a technology book but the more I researched the more I realised it wasn't technology I wanted to talk about, it was information. The nature of information has changed and, as a result, so has what it means to be literate. For instance, an increasing number of teachers are getting students to blog. When they used to write an assignment on paper the teacher was the only person who was going to read it… and the...   more
 
 
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