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Navigating Inner Galaxies

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 Navigating Inner Galaxies The Anomaly Entrypoint As I approach the swirling anomaly, a feeling of dread begins to settle in my stomach, cold and heavy like a lead weight. The ship trembles slightly, a subtle vibration that hums through the deck plates and up into the soles of my boots. I can see the glowing colours reflecting off the cockpit’s interior – shifting hues of cerulean, violet, and emerald, each one pulsing with an unnerving, otherworldly light. It’s mesmerising and terrifying all at once, a cosmic dance of light and shadow that draws me in, an intoxicating invitation to step beyond the confines of reality and into the unknown. The Anomaly is incomprehensible Every sensor on the console blinks a warning, a cacophony of alarms that I've long since learned to ignore. My fingers, steady despite the growing unease, hover over the controls, ready to initiate evasive maneuvers if the anomaly shows any signs of aggression. I grip the console tighter, the cool metal grounding m...

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...