The takeaway here for me is that as fantastic as web services are, many of them are controlled by one party and are thus a single point of failure. If they go down or the particular site makes a change to the web service call, it can potentially ripple through the Internet economy if the API is popular.
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Teacher pay: broken promises and falling standards - The Drum Opinion - The inconvenien... - 2 views
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Today, thousands of public school teachers are on strike after the Victorian Government reneged on its election promise to substantially increase their salaries. The inconvenience to families is regrettable, but the reality is that attacks on teachers' working conditions ultimately hurt students.
Questions about teaching - Google Docs - 9 views
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2 questions about student engagement and ICT - your feedback would be much appreciated.
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Thanks to those who have viewed - please add your opinion as it would greatly aid my research.
Why teaching music is vital for kids | The Advertiser - 3 views
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IN Australia, primary school teachers receive, on average, 17 hours of mandatory music education in their teacher education courses. In South Australia it is even less. In Finland it is 270 hours. What is 17 hours of music education supposed to achieve? One has to ask: Why bother?
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Have you taught online? Your opinion is needed! - 0 views
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WKZGXX6 Please consider taking my survey. It is anonymous, so I won't be able to send a proper thank you. Please know that I will pay your kindness forward to another doctoral student in need and will send warm thoughts out into the universe for you. Thank you for your consideration and for passing this on to eLearning faculty!
Fostering tomorrow's scientists | The Australian - 0 views
"ISP-level content filtering won't work" say ISPs - 0 views
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This is an informed interview with ISP employees about the Labor policy making the ISPs responsible for enforcing the Clean Feed.
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Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.
The Risk in Using Twitter as a Public Utility - 0 views
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I've been thinking about this single-point of failure issue for a little while now. The great thing about web2.0 for learning is that the tools fit together. But if a tool breaks the elements built into that narrative immediately lose cohesion. eg. when Edublogs change it's "embed the web" system OR when Twitter changes it SMS provision to be America centric. What happens if teachers/students go to depend on the single entities for connectivist learning - their failure has some serious kickbacks. The recent ability through Ping.fm and Diigo to cross polinate services is a step in the right direction but take this sticky - it could be lost in the sands of API change. In time users with demand cross-pollination and archive features.
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The takeaway here for me is that as fantastic as web services are, many of them are controlled by one party and are thus a single point of failure. If they go down or the particular site makes a change to the web service call, it can potentially ripple th
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.
Political Debate In Australia - 1 views
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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
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this is so true
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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
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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.
Fun and games - 1 views
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"VIDEO games have become one of the most notable features of our culture, yet the industry receives relatively scant attention in mainstream media. This is not only curious, it is unfortunate; because many parents and carers and educators remain unnecessarily wary of this crucible of creativity. The reach of these games is expanding with the take-up of smartphones and tablet computers. A recent study by the head of media communications and technology at Bond University, Jeffrey Brand, found that about 95 per cent of Australian children under 15 play video games."
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!
Heckler - 7 views
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
What Good Teachers Need - 7 views
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I DON'T think I am a very good teacher, but I try. Some of my students think I am but I don't trust their small experience. Some adults think I am but they've never been in my classes. Frankly, I'm not absolutely sure what a good teacher is. The descriptors are vague anyway: ''has empathy'', ''knows the subject'', ''inspires'' - the more you think about such things the faster they turn to quicksand.
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