NAPLAN results highlight what we’re hearing from schools: writing is one of the toughest skills to improve. Yet people recognise that written communication is fundamental to students’ success in our digital future. What to do?!
As companies in the education and technology sector, we want to support student and teacher success. We know that when teachers can easily access detailed data on…
Thinking Routines are a great way for students to engage with new topics and to develop their critical thinking skills. As part of the “Advance Australia… THERE!” Essay Contest, you might use this activity to help students “Look to Learn.”
It’s with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the Future of Technology Summit Essay Competition. Over 2000 essays from more than 800 schools were submitted by students in grades 5 – 12. Separate awards were given for winners in both the US and Israel.
Thinking Routines Editorial cartoons can be a good stimulus for thinking. Here’s a collection of them re-blogged from The New Yorker (on Tumblr – thus keeping withinThe New Yorker’s copyright policies). The cartoons poke a little fun at where technology may be taking us. See what students think! Remember the power of Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Look to Learn Thinking Routines: Is…
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” — Bono (born Paul David Hewson on May 10, 1960) http://stuf.ly/2q6CqUY
Connect - Extend - Challenge
1. How is the idea presented connected to what you already knew?
2. What new ideas did you get that extended or pushed your thinking in new directions?
3. What is still challenging or confusing for you to get your mind around? What questions, wonderings or puzzles do you now have?
In the fall of 1949, LIFE ran a story about a hybrid car called an “Airphibian” and its inventor, Robert E. Fulton. The story begins: AN EVENING BY AIR—The Fultons fly their automobile from backyard to Broadway and back. This image ran with the following caption: “Fultons leave home in Newtown at 5:30 p.m. dressed fro theater. Children Rawn, 3, Travis, 6, Robin, 9, accompany them to family car-plane.” (Thomas D. McAvoy—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #flyingcar #airphibian #tbt
