Cleavage gives Canberra allure - 0 views
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"NGAMBRI. Now there's a name for Australia's capital city. It has a bit of music in it and means, apparently, ''a woman's cleavage''. It's the name the city should have been graced with all along. Instead, we're saddled with Canberra, a word with all the melodic qualities of a Treasury official poring over tax figures. The thing is, Ngambri and Canberra are - or were - the same word, and they've travelled a long path, as will be revealed."
T is for teaching - 3 views
Gillard Stoush Over Schools Funding Continues - 0 views
Clunky, outdated ultranet faces an uncertain future - 3 views
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The $99 million ultranet, an online portal that was supposed to connect teachers, parents and students at state schools, has been dogged by cost blowouts, technical glitches and opposition from teachers
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The ultranet, promised by the former government before the 2006 state election, was designed to provide a state-wide, secure website that parents, students and teachers at every state school could access.
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the ultranet was a closed space which meant students could not be taught digital citizenship skills in a real environment. ''The whole point of Web 2 was communicating globally - this is completely within a walled garden,''
Teen app maker hits the jackpot - 7 views
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"I basically begged my parents for six months to get [an Apple] computer," he said of his father, an investment banker, and his mother, a lawyer. "And when I finally got it, instead of using it for just watching videos or browsing the web, I kind of had an interest to create things."
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"I began kind of looking into algorithmic technologies and natural language programming," Nick said. The technology is now integrated into his latest app, formally known as Trimit and now known as Summly.
iPad, therefore I am, and keeping a wired open mind - 3 views
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students submit assignments and tests by email, and each subject has a web portal with homework, lesson plans and applications to download. They create multimedia slideshows, stop-motion animations and cartoons for projects, as well as traditional essays. Parents can track progress online and check the lesson plans, which Mr Cook said created accountability and transparency.
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THE backpacks at Albert Park College look a little small. But then everything at the school, which is entering its second year, is a little different. Students helped design the bags and point out that they do not need many books. Nor any calculators, notebooks, atlases and diaries. Instead each student has what the principal calls an "electronic pencil box": an iPad.
Australians more concerned about privacy than ever before - 1 views
Schools jump online taking parents with them - 5 views
Teachers adrift in failed system - 2 views
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The challenge lies not in attracting smart, personable people to teaching, but in retaining them
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Continuity and consistency are as vital for students as for teachers trying to establish relationships with their charges and develop teaching and learning strategies.
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"PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says she wants to eradicate the riff-raff from the teaching profession and entice the best and brightest to join. The challenge lies not in attracting smart, personable people to teaching, but in retaining them."
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Good article that reflects on the conditions faced by many short-term contract teachers that we have in Victoria.
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Reflections by a teacher caught in the sandpit of contract teaching in Victoria.
The Age Education Resource Centre - 5 views
Universities told to adapt or die - 3 views
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''Fixing the technology's important, but so is changing the pedagogy,'' Mr Tanner said. ''While we've made great progress in e-learning, there's been an awful lot about 'e' and not much about 'learning'.''
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UNIVERSITIES that fail to embrace new technology will lose students and die, former federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner has warned. Mr Tanner, now a vice-chancellor's fellow at Victoria University, told a Melbourne audience last night that while Australian universities were using the internet to deliver study materials, they were not yet fully exploiting the potential technology offered for new ways of learning.
Why work-life balance is an outdated myth - 1 views
Jill Meagher | Trial by Social Media A Worry, Experts Say - 4 views
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With that anger comes responsibility to social media users, who become content publishers when they post. That may require a knowledge of media law.
John Hattie in conversation with Maxine McKew - 7 views
Burnout hits one in four teachers - 1 views
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"More than one in four new teachers are suffering from ''emotional exhaustion'' and almost burnt out soon after starting their careers, according to a Monash University study. The reasons offered include a lack of administrative support, onerous compliance measures and much tougher emotional conditions than they expected to face, particularly in economically depressed areas."