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Julia Gardiner

Lateline - 29/10/2012: PMs plan for every child to learn an Asian language - 14 views

www.abc.net.au/...s3621224.htm

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    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The rationale or thinking behind introducing languages early in primary school
  • Gillard Government's Asian Century white paper sets an aspiration for Australia to rank as the world's 10th biggest economy by 2025, capitalising on the rapid economic growth in the region.
  • education will be the key and wants all school students to study an Asian language.
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  • funded
  • where all the new teachers might come from
  • where all the new teachers might come from.
  • the gold standard
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
       The gold standard =any excellent example of something, like how Olympians are the gold standard for athletes
  • If you understand through the learning of language how people think, how they construct meaning, what is important to them culturally, then I think that gives us better insights into the people that we're going to be working with in the future and negotiating with.
  • The Prime Minister says she'll force the curriculum changes by tying them to Commonwealth funding to state and private schools.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Is this  good policy making? Some would  consider  it 'blackmail'!
  • Broadly, teachers and education experts have welcomed the plan, but question where the money is going to come from.
  • catchcry of the Hawke and Keating governments
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the Federal Government of Australia from 11 March 1983 to 11 March 1996. It was a Labour government
  • Currently across all levels of schooling there's around 18 per cent of our young people who are studying one of the four priority Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. And that diminishes to fewer than 6 per cent by the time they get to Year 12.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      How do we encourage students to  continue  learning an Asian language into the final years  of high school and  eyond?
  • say we simply don't have enough Asian language teachers to deliver the Prime Minister's vision and for the last decade the numbers of graduates have been declining.
  • hat's happened because universities have been under these budget constraints and when they've made decisions about what to cut, they cut courses with low enrolments and there goes the languages.
  • JEANNIE REA, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Suggested reasons for the decline in language graduates and therefore  in language teachers. 
  • will help.JULIA GILLARD: We live in an age of different learning possibilities and choices. What we can do through the National Broadband Network, what we can do through having the world's first online national curriculum, which is what the Australian curriculum is, means we can get a deeper penetration of language, literacy and learning.
  • e Prime Minister acknowledges the shortages, but says technology
  • will help.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      This argument t can be debated.  It would suggest that technology in itself will be a solution!
  • we need to be looking very carefully at what sort of encouragement and incentives we can provide to students so they continue doing a language, go on and major in a language in university and then go on to teach in the area.
  • JEANNIE REA:
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      What type of incentive scan be offered/
  • Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
     
    The Prime Minister wants all school students to study an Asian language to secure Australia's future in the Asian Century.
  • nadinebailey on 11 Mar 15
     
    Completely deluded. Even here in Singapore, surrounded supposedly by chinese speakers the international schools are not getting it right and success stories are unusual ...
Penny Roberts

Reading Australia - Home - 17 views

readingaustralia.com.au

English reading

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  • Penny Roberts on 22 Jan 15
     
    Copyright agency resources pages for Australian schools.
pylesensei

Historical monetary data for Australia - 12 views

www.thomblake.com.au/...query.php

History Money Helpful

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  • pylesensei on 23 Oct 14
     
    Convenient Calculator for historical monetary data (Australia) care of Thom Blake.
Scott Spargo

Science Behind the Headlines: Education Packs - Royal Institution of AustraliaRiAus - Australia's national science hub | Bringing science to people and people to science - 44 views

riaus.org.au/...-the-headlines-education-packs

news resources review tools australia science headlines education

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  • Scott Spargo on 22 Sep 14
     
    A collection of resources for Australian science educators which tie scientific concepts to current issues in the media.
ekbrabant

Here's What We Can Expect From El Niño This Year | TIME - 19 views

time.com/...-expect-from-el-nino-this-year

el nino

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  • forecasters have little ability to predict how intense future El Niño episodes will be. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) it is also near impossible to pinpoint the exact dates that El Niño will begin.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      Some atmospheric phenomena can be predicted and some cannot.
  • Within the next month more details regarding El Niño and when it will begin will become clearer.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      As more data is collected more patterns may be apparent, and hypotheses can be supported.
  • 90% chance of striking again this year
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      I wonder how scientists have come to this claim...
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  • Western Pacific and parts of Australia
  • Australia
  • damages the agricultural industries in countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean such as Indonesia, and the Philippines.
  • The results of the El Niño events in 1997-1998 were by far the worst in recent history,
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      I wonder what happened. I wonder what the effects were.
  • South Asia will likely be hit first with heavy rain and flooding.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      El Nino seems to cause a lot of problems. I wonder what caused scientists to think that all of these were related to El Nino.
Martha Hickson

Measuring Worth - User Guide - 13 views

www.measuringworth.com/guide.php

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  • Martha Hickson on 03 Jun 14
     
    The principle of the MeasuringWorth is that there is no one standard measure for comparing what a monetary value in the past is worth today. The best measure depends on the question asked. At present, we have comparators that give you seven answers for the United States (from 1774 on), five for the United Kingdom (from 1270 on), five for Australia (from 1828 on). These dates are determined by the limits of available data.
Cath Horan

RBA: Speech-The Economic Outlook - 8 views

www.rba.gov.au/...sp-gov-260314.html

outlook

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  • world economy has continued its expansion
  • 2014 economic global growth is thought likely by major forecasters to be a bit higher than in 2013
  • growth is coming from the advanced countries
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  • United States continues its recovery led by private demand and over the second half of last year the economy expanded at an annualised rate of just over 3 per cent.
  • The euro area has resumed growth, albeit in a somewhat hesitant fashion and with noticeable differences in performance by country.
  • A few emerging economies have lately come under pressure,
  • In fact were the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to step up its current program of quantitative and qualitative easing, it would soon be adding more cash to the global financial system, in absolute terms, than the Federal Reserve.
  • China's economy grew close to, and in fact a little faster than, the government's target last year. Strong and about equal contributions to growth were made by household consumption and investment. Consumer price inflation continues to be stable.
  • Recent indicators have shown possible signs of slower growth in the early part of 2014: growth of industrial production slowed; retail sales and passenger vehicle sales moderated; and fixed asse
  • Australia certainly weathered the financial crisis well, and with a real GDP some 13 per cent larger than it was at the beginning of 2009, compares well with many other advanced countries. It is the case, though, that growth while positive, has been running at a pace a bit below its trend pace for about 18 months now. The rate of unemployment has increased by something like a percentage point over the same period.
  • strong conditions in the natural resources sector.
  • n the rest of the economy, households have spent most of the past five years behaving more conservatively, or rather more normally, than they did over a long period up to the mid 2000s when they had been in a very expansive mood. Both consumption and residential construction have been soft for a while.
  • esources sector's capital spending continues to fall, it
  • It is unlikely, though, that a pick-up in resources exports, as important as that will be, will be enough to keep overall growth on the right trac
  • Recent data shows stronger household consumption over the summer. The latest surve
  • bundant signs of confidence in the housing market
  • Measures of business confidence have improved over the past six months. Businesses seem, so far, to be taking a cautious approach to investment,
  • is important to stress that this outlook is, obviously, a balance between the large negative force of declining mining investment and, working the other way, the likely pick up in some other areas of demand helped by very low interest rates, improved confidence and so on, as well as higher resource shipments. The lower exchange rate since last April and the improved economic conditions overseas also help.
  • On inflation, our view is that it will be a little higher than we thought three months ago
Cath Horan

Country statistical profile: Australia - Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD - OECD iLibrary - 14 views

www.oecd-ilibrary.org/...e-australia_20752288-table-aus

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    • Cath Horan
      Cath Horan on 26 Feb 14
       
      testing
  • Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD
Cath Horan

Australia and the IMF -- Page 1 of 9 - 6 views

www.imf.org/...index.htm

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    • Cath Horan
      Cath Horan on 26 Feb 14
       
      more interesting
Roland Gesthuizen

Will a teenager combust if you remove their iPhone? - Sustainability education - Blog - Sustainability education - TESAustralia Community - 43 views

community.tesaustralia.com/...f-you-remove-their-iphone.aspx

teenager sustainability education community blog

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Aug 13
     
    "Thea Nicholas, Science and Sustainability Educator from the not-for-profit organisation Cool Australia, conducts an interesting experiment by separating teenagers from their technology. Find out how long they last... "
Penny Roberts

Lensaloft Aerial Photography | 360 degree panoramas - 49 views

www.lensaloft.com.au/360Pano.html

aerial photography panoramas

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  • Penny Roberts on 06 Aug 13
     
    Panoramic ariel shots from Australia and around the world.
amcconnell06

Why media tablets will transform education | Accenture Outlook - 48 views

www.accenture.com/...s-can-transform-education.aspx

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    • amcconnell06
      amcconnell06 on 29 Jan 13
       
      This is if the books are brand new. School systems don't spend that much money per student per year. The books get reused from year to year.
    • dedide Atkins
      dedide Atkins on 05 Jul 13
       
      Not in Australia I am afraid.
  • Content can be revised and updated continuously. Textbooks no longer need to be text but can be any media. And a tablet can administer tests, enable students to engage in collaborative projects or support remote education for rural children. Since a tablet is a full-fledged computer, it can also support specialized applications that cater to children with learning disabilities or different learning styles. The possibilities are endless
  • If all this were to come true, the biggest losers will be dogs—they’ll no longer have any homework to eat.
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    • amcconnell06
      amcconnell06 on 29 Jan 13
       
      Haha. And I still get this excuse to this day.
  • it represents their path to the future. As such, it’s difficult to build consensus around any new educational philosophy; experimentation, however well intentioned,2 is perceived as tantamount to tampering with the lives of young people.
Kenuvis Romero

Tarantula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Tarantula

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  • accounts of bites by some species are reported to be very painful and to produce intense spasms that may recur over a period of several days; the venom by the African tarantula Pelinobius muticus also causes strong hallucinations.[13]
  • Old-world tarantulas (from Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) have no urticating hairs and are more likely to attack when disturbed. Old-world tarantulas often have more potent, medically significant venom.
Donal O' Mahony

Google minus Google plus | eLearning Island - 36 views

donalomahony.edublogs.org/...google-minus-google-plus

google elearning

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  • Donal O' Mahony on 20 May 13
     
    My reflections on the Google I/O and Education. this post has got a lot of interest especially in Australia. I make the point..."This is the real work of education - helping people take control of their lives and realising that in these still early days of the online world, we are being pushed and pushed into vistas that may be limited."
Mark Gleeson

C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: Social Learning - 13 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...arch-for-edu_61_b_2729435.html

edmodo digital citizenship

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  • Mark Gleeson on 22 Feb 13
     
    Does Edmodo's Digital Citizen Starter Kit handle the challenge of educating kids to be good digital citizens? The answer is "Yes!" according to Bianca Hewes, a high school English teacher in Sydney, Australia who's also been doing awesome things with Edmodo since 2009 (including connecting 30 of her students with registered Edmodo teachers in the US, South America and England to mentor their individual writing projects). "Edmodo is a social network with training wheels," says Bianca. "By introducing it at a young age, teachers are able to develop the habits of the mind that are essential for students to be good digital citizens. Students learn to use appropriate language, to speak kindly and with compassion, to be supportive rather than critical, and to ask thoughtful questions."
Mark Gleeson

Edmodo vs Blogging (updated and reposted from a post originally published in September 2012) - 12 views

mgleeson.edublogs.org/...dmodo-vs-blogging-updated-2013

edmodo blogging

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  • Mark Gleeson on 09 Feb 13
     
    I originally wrote this post in September 2012. With a new school year beginning in Australia and plans to ramp up blogging and Edmodo at our school this year, I have updated this post to use with my staff with more screenshots, new ideas and some additional references to the iPad use of these tools with dedicated apps. For those who have seen it before, you may like to revisit.
Brendan Lea

Go Karts Sydney - Karting Hire :: Eastern Creek Karts - 18 views

www.easterncreekkarts.com.au

Australia Go Karting Sydney Sports

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      Brendan Lea on 01 Feb 13
       
      The best place ever for go karting
  • 892 X 201
  • 892 X 201
  • Brendan Lea on 01 Feb 13
     
    Eastern Creek Raceway
deborah moore

Creative Spirits - Aboriginal Australia, Photography and Poems - 24 views

www.creativespirits.info

aboriginal indigenous history creativespirits

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  • Mark Gleeson on 09 Jan 13
     
    Quite a comprehensive site with much information about Indigenous history and culture. Read the "Can you trust this site" section for more info.
Jac Londe

Earth at Night 2012 - 59 views

earthbuilder.google.com/...mapview

world night google maps map earth

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  • Colin Sutton on 12 Dec 12
     
    I live in Australia and I have NO idea what all those lights are in the OUTBACK!! There's more light in just a few spots in the Outback (and there's LOTS of those shown in the image) than in the WHOLE of New Zealand? What gives? Mining? Aliens? A data ERROR? The ABC .net site explains that the lights are bushfires! As the images were taken over a number of months, the fires may not have all been burning at the same time. April (when the images were started) may be a the worst time for fires, however, the Outback is usually dry and fires would occur at any time.
  • anonymous on 07 Jan 13
     
    I also live in Australia and have to agree with Colin - why so many lights in the outback? The outback of Australia is very sparsely populated and there are no big cities to generate these sort of lights. Maybe it is the aliens!!!
maryanne wright

About ABC Splash - splash.abc.net.au - 120 views

splash.abc.net.au/about-abc-splash

education national cuuriculum

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  • maryanne wright on 13 Nov 12
     
    a new world-class education website for Australia packed with hundreds of videos, audio clips and games 100% free to watch and play at home and in school See volcanos erupt and microbats fly. Investigate fossils, megafires and worm farms. Meet fairytale monsters. Unwrap an Ancient Egyptian mummy and explore the Great Barrier Reef without getting wet!
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