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Submitted by: Jasmine H.

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Your on the right track Jo., and there is a heap of technology to be had on the side of the road too. I picked up a sewing machine one day and intend using it to make puppets so the kids can make a movie. Intertextuality is the buzz word and most inventions and sound literacy start with basic inquiry skills. It's only 62 years ago when the first Transistor was invented and I'm still teaching LOL. What is needed in ECE is a sound supportive learning environment, love, infectious laughter and heaps of adult enthusiasm. NO technology will ever replace that. There is a wave of change coming over ECE and if you have not read the Rose Report (UK ) or the national Research Council publication 'Eager to Learn' (USA) you will be behind the 8 ball. Australia is set to leap frog the world in ECE and the consequential benefits that will flow from the new paradigms and pedagogy but we need teachers like you who will not be beholding to technological restraints. If you can get hold of one of the big old photocopiers, get a male friend or tackle it yourself to strip the cogs and chains out of it - it beats Lego any day of the week. Also, find someone with an old motor bike, clean it up and leave it outside the classroom is fantastic resource for the kids to use for any number of outcomes - Literacy, Maths, T&E, S&E. Regards Jasmine H. PS. I am in the process of writing an ECE teachers guide to unusual and innovative ways to get kids enthusiastic about learning, there will be possibly as many chapters on getting teachers to be enthusiastic about teaching; we find it too easy to blame the kids. If a teacher does not see a twinkle in his/her eye and a small child reflecting in the mirror every morning before s/he sets off to school its time to think about changing your job. I saw a 4 yo PP boy sent to the office a few weeks ago. If I was the principal the teacher would be in the office with a PEN in her hand (Please Explain Note).

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