Connected+Classrooms

=Connected Classrooms in New South Wales Australia= The need for Connected Classrooms comes from the demands of today's students. The Program will facilitate wherever/whenever learning as students consume, remix and create knowledge. Through the Connected Classrooms Program, DET will deliver a set of tools to meet the needs of today's learners in their school environment that can also be accessed in other environments.(DET link below)

TaLe - DET NSW Teaching and Learning Exchange

 * [|Collaborate] in the process of discovering, developing and sharing teaching and learning resources for schools. Share the services, activities and programs developed to support the exchange of teaching and learning resources.

Public Schools.edu.nsw.au

 * [|First Step to a High Tech Future]

DET

 * [|What is the Connected Classrooms Project?]

Teachers Federation

 * [|Do Connected Classrooms Create More issues for Teachers?]

Media - Selected Reports.

 * [|SMH Connected Classrooms update.]
 * [|SMH - Classroom Revolution as Schools Connected to the World]
 * [|NSW schools cashed up in AU$772m tech bonanza] - 2008-09 NSW Budget
 * **[|NSW Govt Slammed Over Botched $158M Education Tender] - An alternate view of our future**
 * **[|"Cost Shock Puts School PC's at Risk"]**
 * [|NSW Takes the Digital Lead - Is Skool Cool?]

**Macquarie University ICT Innovations Centre**

 * [|Interactive Classrooms Project]


 * NSW Parliament**
 * [|Western Sydney Schools Trial]

**Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI)**

 * [|Connected Classes Trial 2006] View IWB trial media type="file" key="Connected_Classes_bb.wmv"

USA
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 * [|Thoughts of an emerging edu-blogger.]
 * [|One Connected classrooms educator]
 * See what teachers are already doing This site was created by Kristin Hokanson to show teachers ways that they can create a "Connected" Classroom for their students. (Kristin's video below - inspired by the original "Shift happens")