IF you are part of a family with young children, no doubt you will have had the painful problem of stepping on those little Lego bits that always seem to find their way to your bare feet.
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As children grow up, their Lego is put to the back of cupboards and forgotten about.
Well here is your chance to get rid of it and help out the student from Lithgow Primary Infants school.
The school is starting up a new Lego Robotics program and they would like to ask the community to donate any of their unwanted Lego to the school.
It would be greatly appreciated and put to good use.
Persons wishing to donate Lego can contact the Lithgow Primary School office by phoning 6352 1422.
In other Lithgow Primary school news, some teachers just can’t get enough of learning — or at least that’s what a band of teachers from Lithgow Primary believe.
Teachers had two days at a conference called Slide2Learn that was filled with awesome ideas on how to use iPads creatively and imaginatively to improve student learning outcomes across all curriculum areas.
The participants enrolled in a wide variety of workshops.
These workshops were designed to have participants doing hands on activities such as making movies, devising animations, building 3D models, bringing augmented reality creatures to life, learning how to code (program computers), doing amazing artworks and photo enhancement.
They learned how to access excursions that take you anywhere in the world without leaving town.
The keynote speakers came from around the world to present at the Slide2learn Conference and their achievements were inspirational and a result of hard work and effort.
While the conference was about effectively implementing iPads into teaching and learning it was really about teacher quality.
iPads are only digital tools and as such are only as good as the teacher allows them to be.
Designing learning opportunities using technology is not easy, it is challenging and hard.
It is a challenge these teachers believed was worth giving up part of their holidays for.
The teachers learned that in the hands of creative, imaginative and passionate teachers, who know their curriculum, their craft and put the students’ needs ahead of their own, the iPad can be a powerful and motivating learning tool.