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Help your child read with interactive iPad books

Help your child read with interactive iPad books

I’m sure, like me, you love reading books to your kids at night! It’s just good fun and, of course, helps them develop important reading skills.

Did you know that some iPad apps offer a way for our kids to interact with books?

Using these apps, our kids can read a story, then re-write it, add their own images or write new stories with the same characters…

Using these interactive reading apps can…

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Getting your kids organised

Getting your kids organised

As our kids get older we want to help them begin to manage their own lives. They might sports commitments, play on teams, have to bring a plate to share to the next after school rehearsal. They will likely have homework to complete – with a range of due dates.

One way to help them learn to manage these commitments is to set up a functional to-do list. Our kids are used to their phones being…

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Tech on holiday

What technology do you take on holiday with you? Where do you use that technology? How will be safe online while on holiday?

These three questions keep coming up in conversations lately – because here in Australia we are in the middle of school holidays!

Let’s look at these questions briefly, to give you some ideas to think about!

What technology do you take on holiday with you? Whatever you think…

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What do parents think about technology?

What do parents think about technology?

I read an interesting article about parents and technology – and thought I’d share it. It’s based on a research study out of the US that asked parents how they see technology used by their children, what they thought the benefits of tech use were, and also what they worried about.

It’s interesting to see that the themes raised by parents in this study are the same as the concerns and patterns…

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Women in Technology Careers

Women in Technology Careers

I published an article on our university website yesterday about women in tech careers. You know, our fastest growing industry? :0) Well, the challenge we are facing is that we don’t have enough people to meet the demands of industry.

There was a recent study, carried out in Silicon Valley – the tech centre of the world. Over 200 women were asked about their experiences as a woman in the…

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Schools and Creativity - a quick video for your day!

Schools and Creativity – a quick video for your day!

I’ve been overseas recently and heard some fantastic speakers. All of them about edcuation, and all of them focusing on the changes we need to see in the classroom. The way people talk about learning today is changing, it’s no longer about reciting textbook facts and it’s definitely more than searching facts online.

I think that Sir Ken Robinson sums it up, so I wanted to share this with you. His…

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Answers to FAQs about computers in primary school… I thought I’d share this infographic I made for a school. I often get asked the same questions about students using computers at school. The five questions in the infographic might answer some of yours! Find the infographic here

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Going paperless? Is it possible at home? A paperless world might be more environmentally-friendly, but is it possible at home? I think so, but I also think that sometimes paper is still the best option for some things...