New article in Issue 83 of Education Technology Solutions – see link here
Bitcoin: One solution for the M in STEM when integrating learning in primary school classrooms
New article in Education Technology Solutions co-written with one of the teacher’s in 2017 STEM research in NSW public schools. Copy of the paper is here.
How do high school students create knowledge about improving and changing their school? A student voice co-inquiry using digital technologies
New paper on student voice. A copy of the article is here
High Possibility Classrooms as a pedagogical framework for technology integration in classrooms: an inquiry in two Australian secondary schools
Abstract Understanding how well teachers integrate digital technology in learning is the subject of considerable debate in education. High Possibility Classrooms (HPC) is a pedagogical framework drawn from research on exemplary teachers’ knowledge of technology integration in Australian school classrooms.
Switching Middle School Teachers onto STEM Using a Pedagogical Framework for Technology Integration: The Case for High Possibility Classrooms in Australia
Paper written about the 2016 research study in 6 schools in Sydney on STEM.
HPC and STEM go to hospital
I have always wondered how children, young people and families manage schooling when illness and injury means an extended stay in hospital. Does learning pause for that time? And, what education options, if any are available to school-age students who
Continuing the STEM conversation in primary schools
In a major review of the literature titled: “Opening up pathways: Engagement in STEM across the Primary–Secondary school transition“, Australian researchers led by Professor Russell Tytler (2008) contend: “it is the quality of teachers and their classroom practices that are
Adding a fourth “R” to the Chief Scientist’s list for education
Last week Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel said in an article written for The Conversation: although international testing cannot capture everything of importance in Australian education I take the latest findings of PISA, TIMSS and NAPLAN seriously. With that
Using HPC with all subjects in primary and high school curriculums
The High Possibility Classrooms (HPC) framework is a pedagogical model for teaching and learning. It landed on the education stage in late 2013 and since then its use has resonated with principals and teachers in increasing numbers of NSW and
Teaching C R A P: multimedia learning, UDL and GDT in teacher education and in schools
Happy New Year – first post for 2016! While I was in the US in late 2015 I taught two short doctoral courses: one in Multimedia Design for Learning and the other Multimedia Production for Learning in the School of