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The Art of No

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  The Ayes Have It (But She Don't) Everybody knows the bill is dead Everybody knows the Senate’s red Everybody knows the deal is done The major parties had their fun The crossbench bargains were all just show The whips have cracked, the whistle’s blowed That’s how it goes And Hanson always votes no. Everybody knows the bells are ringing Everybody knows the mud they’re slinging Everybody knows the clerk can’t count With all the grievances they mount Everybody knows that the motion’s lost Everybody knows what the lobby cost The Ayes go high, the chamber’s low And Hanson always votes no. And everybody knows that it’s now or never Everybody knows that it’s gonna take forever Everybody knows that the act is rotten Old amendments best forgotten Everybody knows the tellers move With nothing left for them to prove The red room puts on quite a show But Hanson always votes no. Everybody knows the maiden speech The lessons that she tried to teach About the fish and about the chips And the tig...

iPAD & ANDROID APPS and Blooms

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Part of a 21st Century Teacher's mission is to relate innovative technology with their teaching practices. Perhaps the most commonly accepted teaching and learning pedagogical methodology is the Blooms' Taxonomy. Blooms has been revised in the digital era. Across the world, many educators have made considerable efforts to related Blooms with online learning, web 2.0, 3.0, and industrial revolution 4.0. Blooms and Moodle Resource link   Blooms and Web 2.0 to 3.0 Resource link Resource link Blooms and Industrial Revolution 4.0 Resource link Resource link Educators across the world can adapt new technologies and adapt teaching and learning practices through what is a globally connected effort to be relevant and effective.  Can schools - more importantly can Educational Jurisdictions keep up with societal change? Can Bloom's keep up? One-off sponsorship You Tube

Texting Technology Thinking

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Whilst writing has existed for many centuries the association of writing as technology is relatively new. The question is - How do changes in technologies influence knowledge & influence thinking? Chisel and Stone Reed pen papyrus roll press and vellum typewriter and paper keyboard and computer screen TXT Mobile writing technology is now the first choice in today's youth and how is it changing thinking? 14% done in class!!! Educators are caught in this change. Students are wanting to write but in a technology that is not designed for essay writing. Mobile Keyboards are changing to accommodate fast Mobile TXTing Software for touch screens Technology changes thinking. Allow it to change thinking in your classroom New technologies create cultural disturbances. Every new technology gives us two things — promise and consequence. The promise attracts us towards technology and encourages us to adopt it.  AI writing One-off sponsorship...