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» Bright Beginnings for Boys: Engaging young boys in active literacy
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Scootle wins 2009 Global Learning Impact Awards
Scootle has won a bronze award in overall competition and the 'best in category' award for digital learning content for the school sector at the 2009 Global Learning Impact Awards in Barcelona. The 'best in category' award recognises the quality of the digital curriculum resources published by The Le@rning Federation.
The Learning Impact Awards acknowledge the best use of technology worldwide to support learning. The finalists were reviewed by an expert panel of judges and by the attendees at the IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual Learning Impact conference and Summit on Global Learning Challenges. The entries were evaluated according to eight criteria, including improving access to learning, improving affordability of learning and improving quality of learning.
Find out more about Scootle and the Learning Impact Awards.
Supporting student wellbeing
Curriculum Corporation has a growing range of resources available to support parents and teachers in their efforts to equip students with the tools and skills required to achieve social, emotional and physical wellbeing. Titles include:
Foundation Blocks: Personal, Social and Emotional Development, which includes activities to help children develop positive attitudes, self-confidence and high self-esteem.
This Is Your Life, a series which helps students realise that being active, eating well and getting along with others contribute to a better life.
The Real Game series, which allows students to develop real-life skills to prepare them for the adult world.
Switched-on Ideas: Wellbeing (book & cards), this book in the series presents the topics of emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, cooperative learning, resilience and self- assessment through the medium of colourful cards and large posters.
Bully Blocking, a book which explains how parents and teachers can understand bullying, its causes and consequences, and outlines what action to take in order to transform a child's attitudes.
Click here for the full collection of titles.
Bright Beginnings for Boys: Engaging young boys in active literacy
New from the International Reading Association, this book offers inspiration for teachers struggling to engage young boys in reading and writing. The authors provide an insight into how boys develop cognitively and emotionally and provide guidance on how to structure the classroom in a way that meets their needs. Tips for involving family and community members are also suggested in this helpful resource. More…
Action Stations: Digital Storytelling
This exciting new series sets an exemplary example for using new technologies to the classroom. The first title, Digital Storytelling, is available for order now!
With Digital Storytelling, students learn to decode and analyse the array of multimedia that pervades all our lives. Learning by doing, they uncover how media is manipulated to influence what we think and feel as they create their own digital stories – potentially culminating in a film festival! This superlative resource allows students to become fluent users of different forms of new media and confident creators of a variety of media texts, while enabling teachers to gain confidence using ICT as it becomes embedded in everyday teaching.
Curriculum Leadership Journal
This week Curriculum Leadership features an article about the ethical issues facing contemporary educational leaders.The ultimate challenge for leaders is to develop their own and others' capabilities so that their organisations can flourish in complex, uncertain, unpredictable and rapidly changing environments.
