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Kerry J

In a league of their own | smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Poorly written, unresearched op-ed piece. Can't believe SMH published this rubbish! Aimed at the lowest common denominator with no understanding of the fight to provide more well-rounded assessment.
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    Poorly written, unresearched op-ed piece. Can't believe SMH published this rubbish!
Tony Searl

School Certificate - 4 views

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    Anna Patty can you please link to your sources so SMH readers can read full transcripts of ideas you selectively quote? Poor journalism in a hyper-linked age. These ideas are NOT new, so why do they gain prominance once one GPC Pricipal obviously published their thoughts somewhere?
Roland Gesthuizen

Teacher got harsh treatment: filmmaker - 2 views

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    "The director of Mrs Carey's Concert has revealed the film's star music teacher was devastated after being repeatedly criticised and threatened with dismissal before her shock resignation from MLC School."
Kerry J

Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Senator Nick Xenophon blocks Conroy's mandatory filter.
Kerry J

Your Facebook secrets: jobs under threat - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Making seemingly private comments on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter is now a sackable offence for some professions.
Chris Betcher

Learning Curve - National Times - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    These are testing times for parents, students, principals and teachers. Share your experiences of schools and the education system with Anna Patty, the education editor for The Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Searl

National curriculum - 6 views

    • Tony Searl
       
      nothing new in this but worth a repeat on a different stage SMH
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    Rather than taking the time to get it right, we're using an outdated view of what kids need at school - dividing all the knowledge up into separate academic subjects and disciplines and then overloading those with content
Tania Sheko

Speaking of useful apps, this one's a genuine life-changer - 0 views

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    Proloquo2go app helps autistic boy communicate 
Chris Betcher

UK tourists turned back from US over Twitter joke to 'destroy America' and dig up Maril... - 1 views

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    UK tourists turned back from US over Twitter joke to 'destroy America' and dig up Marilyn Monroe's grave
Tony Searl

They were different classes, now they're one community - 2 views

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    "The principal of Northern Beaches Secondary College, Steve Pickering, and his colleagues were inspired to introduce this project-based learning after visiting progressive schools in Adelaide and the US a few years ago. He believes working in groups on real issues improves student engagement, especially in middle years, by leveraging team loyalty and promoting a sense of achievement. It also moves education towards student-centre learning and lets children make unique contributions they would not be able to on their own."
Tony Searl

NSW cans 'inferior' national curriculum - 4 views

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    THE NSW state government has ruled out implementing the new national curriculum next year, as scheduled under the federal government's timeline.
Tony Searl

F for fail: 'overcrowded, incoherent' national curriculum panned - 3 views

  • The NSW Board of Studies and teaching associations for science, maths, English and history have all raised serious concerns about the draft curriculum, saying it is inferior to existing NSW standards and should not go ahead in its present form.
Kerry J

Website blacklist leaked on internet - 0 views

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    Doubt has been cast on the federal government's proposed internet censorship regime after a blacklist of banned websites was leaked online. Note: this article incorrectly suggests that Wikileaks has been removed. The Wikileaks site says the org's servers were overwhelmed by popular demand.
Tony Searl

Independent schools spend more on their students, My School shows - 1 views

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    Barry McGaw, the chairman of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, the agency responsible for the site, said it could spark debate about how resources were divided between the education bureaucracy and schools. ''It's not only going to be parents who might be surprised, some principals of government schools might be surprised about how much is being spent on their behalf centrally
Tony Searl

Political Debate In Australia - 1 views

  • Despite the exponential increases in public education and access to information in the past century, the quality of political debate appears to have become increasingly unsophisticated, appealing to the lowest common denominator of understanding
    • Tony Searl
       
      this is so true
  • In 1860 the technology was primitive but the ideas were profound and sophisticated. In 2011 technology is sophisticated but the ideas uttered by presidential aspirants are embarrassing in their banality, ignorance and naivety.
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      absolutely why little of the DER has ANYTHING to do with technology. Like a rat with a gold tooth
  • In 2006 I suggested that it might be time to actually define ''Education'', something omitted in the draft bill, and to explore its role in personal and community life, but this was rejected as too ambitious.
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    This is by far the best-educated cohort in our history - on paper, anyway - but apparently lacking in courage, judgment, capacity to analyse or even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal needs.
Rhondda Powling

Reading between the lines - 2 views

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    The closure of book chains and the rise of the internet do not mean we are reading less, simply that we are reading differently.
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