Useful links

Software for Learning

Software for Learning

The Digital Strategy: Creating our Digital Future
This is the website for New Zealand's Digital Strategy, launched on 16 May 2005, which is an action plan for ensuring all New Zealanders benefit from information and communication technology (ICT).

The Digital Strategy

ICT Community on TKI

ICT Community on TKI

Netsafe
Netsafe aims to provide cyber safety, security and citizenry information for all of New Zealand.

Netsafe

TENZ
TENZ is a professional network which has been set up to promote and support Technology Education in New Zealand.

TENZ

NZCETA
Aims to provide a forum for the discussion and consideration of all matters pertaining to the teaching and learning of ICT and other areas within the broad spectrum of education.

NZCETA

Becta Schools – Curriculum
A UK government education site that promotes effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning. This site has some good resources and readings.

Becta Schools - Curriculum

Teachers TV
Downloadable educational videos, including some with an ICT focus.

Teachers TV

Teachers TV/ICT

Teachertube
Provides an online community for sharing instructional videos.

Teachertube

Natcoll
Natcoll is New Zealand's largest specialist private tertiary provider of creative digital technology courses and related resources.

Publishing

Creating Futures

Global SchoolNet
This site allows teachers to find collaborative learning partners and appropriate learning exchange projects from around the world. Projects support all age groups and subject areas. Membership is free.

Global SchoolNet

TakingITGlobal - TIGed
Developed for teachers, TIGed combines an online toolset, or virtual classroom, with collaborative Web 2.0 technologies, to connect with global youth leaders in more than 200 countries. Teachers can select tools for their students and projects, including blogs, podcasting tools, maps, digital images, discussion boards, and writing tools. It is recommended that teachers be discerning when using this resource with students.

TakingIT Global

DigEnt: Digital Entrepreneurship
This site needs registration, but you can enter as a guest by following the instructions supplied.

Digital Entrepreneurship

The Horizon Report
A research report which seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies that are likely to have a large impact on teaching and learning or creative expression. Download the report from this site.

Horizon Report

Horizon Project

Learner engagement
This report provides educators working within primary, secondary, further and higher education with a guide to how learner voice is currently being used to shape policy and practice in education.

Learner engagement

Enquiring Minds
The Enquiring Minds programme revealed that students working in partnership with their teachers and playing a part in designing their own curriculum are more confident, engaged and positive about school. The Year 3 report, ‘Schools, Knowledge and Educational Change’, draws upon the detailed study of two schools implementing the programme. Providing an insight into the challenges, obstacles and opportunities experienced by the schools running the programme, the research is a valuable accompaniment to the practical guidebook which enables teachers to implement Enquiring Minds in their own schools.

Enquiring Minds

Supporting ALL learners
The best way to ensure that learners from all sectors of society have real access, without barriers, to a technology-enhanced education is to involve them in the design of educational technologies, suggests a new report from education innovator Futurelab. The report, 'Designing for Social Justice: People, Technology, Learning’, raises fundamental questions about who is best placed to make decisions in the design process and questions whether current technologies for learning are meeting the needs of all learners.

Supporting all learners

Read Jamie McKenzie's article on Getting Attention in the Laptop Classroom

Getting Attention in the Laptop Classroom