Galactic Explorer AppHold the solar system in the palm of your hand with Galactic Explorer! Watch as the planets revolve around the Sun in their orbits, explore the texture and colour of each planet’s surface, and discover interesting facts as you navigate through space.
Explore the Explorer using the BLM then check out what Ashleigh and Stella Y4 did.
Mr Body 
A fun, interactive game where students learn about internal organs and how they work.
Select each of Mr. Body's parts to get a close-up view of each vital organ and it's
function like the heart, brain, lungs, and more.
Dig! App
Mine and build to create 3D worlds you can hold in the palm of your hand!
Print out lesson.This a fabulous but initially frustrating app but the kids love it. it is great for mathematicla concepts as well as fantasies and story telling
Merge Things!
A collection of mini-games, play with your own Octopet, navigate treacherous valleys, battle alien forces, get hypnotized by a kaleidoscope, and hold a campfire in your hand! Great for ES1 experimentation.
Comments like
I don't know how much longer I can take this"
I love teaching but 80% of the time you are doing something else and not teaching."
I need a break
Teachers are leaving the profession in significant numbers — the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest 53 percent of people who hold a teaching degree, do not currently work in education.
Although the figure varies by locality, about 40 to 50 percent of our newest teachers leave within their first five years on the job.
Why are they leaving
These graduates are leaving for various reasons, but similar themes recur: they feel burnt out, unsupported, frustrated and disillusioned.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-04/why-do-teachers-leave/8234054
There must be a better way.
1. The International Baccalaureate Curriculum is a fully developed curriculum supplied to teachers, they do not program, they implement an existing program. A huge amount of teacher time could be reduced by implementing this system in Australian schools.
2. Testing should be drastically reduced and if required should be conducted online and automatically marked with results feeding into individual student reports.
3. Report writing should be streamlined, all data entry should be automated directly from existing programs students are working on, eg Mathletics, Reading Eggs etc. REport categories should be reduced. Reporting on individual outcomes removed.
4. Reduction of administrative task undertaken by teachers from the current 80% to say 20% by using automation and administrative staff.
Get back time to be creative and inspiring and collegial, and let teachers do the job they love - teaching
