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=Welcome to Creative Ideas for Classrooms! =

===As students in our day and age are exposed to all sorts of technology, Ipods, Ipads, Iphones, XBox Live etc, their understanding of 'cool' is well and truly past print out activity sheets and wrote learning from a whiteboard. They need teachers who can capture their attention and engage them in lessons that are both fun and have a good content value. ===

===Learning itself has been defined as a 'process through which experience causes permanent change in knowledge or behaviour' (Maclean, Bennett, Walker-Gibs & Marsh 2009, p.4). The experience aspect of this definition is crucial in understanding how students learn because without experience there will be no permanent change in knowledge or behaviour. One way to create experiences in teaching is through technology, as it can make learning interactive and as a result the students are engage and retain information. ===

===This site is designed for grade one and two teachers who need some fresh creativity in the classroom and want to learn how they can use technology in a way that makes learning fun. In particular, this month's focus is on the core subject of Mathematics and will provide you with some interactive websites that you can use in classroom lessons. ===