January 29, 2008
Programming:The New Literacy by Marc Prensky featured in Edutopia
‘ I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate person is programming literacy, the ability to make digital technology do whatever, within the possible one wants it to do — to bend digital technology to one’s needs, purposes, and will, just as in the present we bend words and images. Some call this skill human-machine interaction; some call it procedural literacy. Others just call it programming.’
Marc Prensky conducted a series of workshops and keynotes in Perth from 28-30 May 2007. They explored online technologies and their application for innovative education.Resources from these workshops are available on the SOCS webpage.
Marc Prensky keynote podcasts and PowerPoint slides
Student panel podcasts
Marc Prensky workshop resources
Marc Prensky testimonial
Order Marc Prensky DVD
Also available: CMIS Resource Bank records for Marc Prensky’s books.
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Posted by janning
January 19, 2008
from the ACER media release 18 Jan 2008 The ICT Literacy Sample Assessment was conducted in October 2005. A total of 7,393 students in Years 6 and 10 from 517 schools participated in the assessment which measured their ability to use ICT appropriately to access, manage, integrate and evaluate information; develop new understandings; and communicate with others in order to participate effectively in society.
Results of the assessment show that nationally, 49 per cent of Year 6 students achieved the Year 6 proficient standard and 61 per cent of Year 10 students achieved or bettered the Year 10 proficient standard.
The ‘Proficient’ standard is a “challenging but reasonable” level of performance that would be expected for a student at that year level.
The report is available and can be downloaded here.
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Posted by cmiseval
January 11, 2008
RSS is the glue that holds Web 2 together. Using rss you can have information delivered to you … or you could set up your own rss feed and keep your students informed.
Here is a clear introduction to rss and how it works.
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Posted by cmiseval
January 11, 2008
Welcome to the CMIS Technology Focus Blog.
This blog is set up to trial the application of new web technologies to sharing information. The blog will help create an active on-line presence for the CMIS team and allow us to supplement the existing services provided by Curriculum Materials Information Service (CMIS), a project within the Syllabus Development and Resources Directorate in the Department of Education and Training, Western Australia. The Evaluation section identifies curriculum materials that support school curriculum applications and coordinates the evaluation of those resources.
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