what's your game?

Hi my is Suzie and this is my foray into learning new technologies to use in the classroom and beyond. The changes within the last ten years has seen the advent of technology developing into an amazing array of tools that can be used within the learning environment. When the safe practices of computing were set down 10 years ago there were no blogs or wikis to safe guard young children from, the chances of children being bullied on the web or phones was non-existent and problems with inappropriate sexual material being available on ordinary sites was to a minimum.

Now we have Education Queensland blocking sites within the learning environment, with the hope of safe guarding children. These same sites are available within the home environment but there is a responsibility by the schools and the teaching staff to ensure the children have the safest learning experiences available to them.

The following blogs will explore some of the tools that are available to the learning manager and a small taste of how they could possibly be used within the classroom. Not all tools are appropriate for all ages but the idea of this course is to give the learning manager the skills to negotiate a large number of new tools and thus transfer these same skills to other tools. This is of value at the present, however if the learning manager does not keep abreast with the ICT environment they will be left behind. The changes are fast and furious.