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21st Century Skills & Literacies for the iPad. Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo. Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool.
Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer.Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time.Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes. "View any annotations made by others on any website visited.Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network.Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks.
To learn more about how Diigo can be used as as information management tool, visit these pages: Diigo has clear advantages to the individual that needs to store and recall important information. Below are just a few options for using Diigo in the classroom. Personal Student Bookmarks Bookmark Lists Extended Learning Professional Development Research.
iPad apps – favourites so far. I’ve installed and used all the apps below as part of an appraisal of what might be good apps for teachers and students.
Just presenting them here as a grab bag, ranging between good and great. I’ve left out other apps that I’ve found to be useless. Also tested by 5 and 8 year olds…. You can get by without them, but it’s better if you have them: Keynote, Pages and NumbersBooks for younger kids:Little Red Hen – from Stepworks companyBeatrix Potter – looks exactly like the old bookLula’s BrewWheels on the BusThe Dr Suess books are excellent.Hairy McClary Books for mid to upper primary:Alice in Wonderland – there are a few out there – the one I chose cost about $11 and is full colour with some animation. Games for infants:Pet playpenClicky StickyABC mazeDrawing pad – older kids tooCupcakes!
Strategy:The land of UM Maths:Live Mathletics (if you like Mathletics that is) Haven’t really seen any maths apps that grab me yet Great timewasters……. Like this: Like Loading... Australian Council for Computers in Education. Read more about ICT and the Australian Curriculum and contribute to the discussion!
Download the position paper The Australian Curriculum as presented by ACARA, acknowledges the importance of ICT as both a general capability (GC) and as a learning area in partnership with Design and Technology (the ‘Technologies’). Currently there is no published curriculum documentation for ICT Competence as a GC. Rather its place in the Australian Curriculum is recognised within each of the four published learning areas through embedding in content descriptions and/or achievement standards. As a learning area, work is just beginning on determining ICT’s ‘conceptual’ home and its content. This paper discusses four key concerns about this current situation and proposes and justifies a solution whereby ICT would be a learning area in its own right, either within the framework of the Technologies or as a new learning area. Concerns with current position There are concerns relating to: