The Gonski report has been quite a popular topic recently and just a brief glance at the hashtag shows a myriad of opinions being displayed:   Kevin Donnelly of The Australian raises some valid points about the cultural barriers towards Australia becoming one of the top five countries in educational performance, and even begs the question whether [...]

Hi All! We’ve put together a little video to show off some of the great features we’ve just released for the online Daybook. Hopefully you will enjoy the new and improved version as much as we do.  Now you’ll be able to create your own custom lessons such as Math 101, Reading or even non-academic events [...]

Kyle Pace presented this hypothetical: “A teacher could be teaching a lesson on the Civil War. That lesson could bomb. They could go to their network, pose a question, ask for a resource. In the next period they could have new resources, things to try immediately. Traditional professional development can’t offer that immediacy of being a connected [...]

The other day I saw a post going around twitter. It was called “Top 100 Twitter Tools for teachers“. That’s crazy. You don’t need a list of 100 tools. What you need is a framework for evaluating the technology that interests you. In no particular order, these are five big ideas that teachers should look for when deciding [...]

 A university in Germany has sued one of their graduates for graduating too quickly.  With help from friends and sharing notes, Marcel Pohl managed to finish two degrees in a fraction of the time therefore cutting short potential revenue for the college. I couldn’t think of a better example to illustrate the disconnect between modern [...]

 I came across this article from the New Yorker which you really should go and read, now.  As a teacher it expresses a lot of opinions that I’ve often worried about when it comes to decoding the dynamic between the student, the teacher and the parent. I say “decoding” because that’s what it is; three [...]

(Just looking for the resource? Click here!)   After a recent phone conversation I looked down at the paper before me and realised it was covered in doodles. I was then reminded of a Maths class I had taught last year and wanted to share with the Teacher Time community: Students were working on a [...]