If tablet technology is going to be used in the classroom, open-ended apps should be employed, to prevent tablets from becoming “21st century shut-up sheets”, one teacher has advised. Grant Jones, a technology teacher at St Marys Public School in Sydney’s ...
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John Baker is the founder, president and chief executive of D2L (née Desire2Learn), the Canadian learning management system (LMS) provider responsible for the Brightspace brand of educational tools. This week, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, D2L is hosting a regional ...
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Educators who want to fill the future workforce will have to prepare for a world of digital natives. It wasn’t that long ago when schools were still using chalk and blackboards. Data projectors and interactive white boards have taken their ...
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