Some schools and teachers are also contributing to a sense that children are "failing" kindergarten, and becoming anxious about how they would perform in NAPLAN tests
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Kids robbed of playtime in pursuit of academic excellence - 3 views
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There is a perception we need to hurry up and get them smart. With the pressure to get literacy rates up implies what is happening in kindy is not good enough so we need to do more to hurry them up
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It's robbing children of their childhood and parents are wasting their money as children are not developmentally ready at that age for formal learning
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FEARFUL parents are unnecessarily sending pre-schoolers to early learning classes to give them an academic edge.
Schools jump online taking parents with them - 5 views
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"Low-tech days in the old school yard are going, going gone as Australian schools collectively embrace online systems automating everything from canteen orders to selling seats at the end of year concert."
Rise in number of Australian kids with smartphones | News.com.au - 2 views
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"The sharp increase in mobile phone ownership amongst children has resulted in cyber safety experts calling for parents to ditch smart phones for "dumb phones'' ... Mobile phones have also saturated the teenage demographic with 94 per cent of 16 and 17-year olds now owning a phone."
App Smashing For Educators: Leveraging Tools To Maximize Communication | Imagine Easy Blog - 2 views
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"For decades, schools have attempted to build and maintain this crucial bridge to lasting learning. Research shows that the stronger the connection between home and school, the greater the academic achievement can be for students. There are some new tools listed here that all educators can leverage to easily maximize parent-teacher-student communication"
Totlol - Video for Kids. Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, Grade School, Tweens and Parents - 0 views
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Totlol is a video website designed specifically for children. It is community moderated. It is constantly growing. It is powered by YouTube. All videos were submitted, screened and rated by parents. The selection is huge and if you like, you can participate too.
Parents As Partners Presentation - 0 views
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Anne Reed on Web 2.0 tools
Hara Estroff Marano - ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler - 0 views
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"Hara Estroff Marano is Editor-at-Large of Psychology Today in the US. She argues that modern attitudes to parenting mean anxious mums and dads are crowding out the unsupervised play that kids used to enjoy. As a result children don't get much opportunity to solve their own problems, to practise co-operation and to test their leadership skills."
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Asks the provocative question, are we raising a nation of wimps?
worldwaterday2011 - lino - 0 views
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This is a space for students, parents, teachers and visitors to share their thoughts, videos, photographs, and learning about World Water Day - March 22, 2011. We welcome contributions from our local and international visitors, so please leave a sticky stating your (first name) and country of origin.
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"This is a space for students, parents, teachers and visitors to share their thoughts, videos, photographs, and learning about World Water Day - March 22, 2011. We welcome contributions from our local and international visitors, so please leave a sticky stating your (first name) and country of origin."
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Great project for World Water Day, 22nd March 2011.
EDUCATOR'S GUIDE - Facebook for Educators - 3 views
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instruct them in safe, ethical, and responsible Internet use
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can enhance learning inside the classroom and beyond
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new technology is changing your classroom
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Educators have traditionally helped parents teach young people about appropriate behavior towards others. Now, with the explosion of social media, educators can be part of a larger conversation with young people about digital citizenship and online behavior. We will discuss more about what digital citizenship means in Section 4. As educators you can instruct them in safe, ethical, and responsible Internet use
http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/sheets/rs25/rs25.pdf - 0 views
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The purpose of this Resource Sheet is to provide information on resources available for parents regarding online safety for their children. For another NCPC Resource Sheet relating to online practices see: Images of Children and Young People Online (Horsfall, 2010).
Learn To Be Healthy - Educators - Health Education Resources & Tools - 0 views
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LearntobeHealthy.org is an online health science education center designed to help parents, teachers and educators communicate important health concepts to students though educational resources such as games, activities, and lesson plans.
Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers | Teaching Degree.org - 0 views
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Gone are the days of children sneaking comics past diligent parents and teachers watching out for sub-par literature. The comics of today not only have plenty to offer, they are gaining well-deserved recognition and awards. Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The following tips, tools, and resources
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By Kelsey Allen. "Gone are the days of children sneaking comics past diligent parents and teachers watching out for sub-par literature. The comics of today not only have plenty to offer, they are gaining well-deserved recognition and awards. Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The post contains links to tips, tools, and resources.
Cybersmart - Internet and mobile safety advice and activities - 0 views
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ACMA site. Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world. Cybersmart also offers training and resources for schools and materials for library staff. Developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Cybersmart is part of the Australian Government's cybersafety program
Net Cetera - Chatting With Kids About Being Online - 1 views
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Using the Download PDF button on this page you can download a really interesting pdf guide for parents about talking with children about working online. The guide looks at children of different ages and stages and offers sensible and commonsense advice. Though it is written for the American context the underlying advice is relevant to all.
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School? - 8 views
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The two major obstacles that students say they face at school: filters that stop them from accessing the websites they need for homework and bans on using their own mobile devices (namely cellphones) at school.
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The majority of parents surveyed - 67% - said that they were willing to buy their children a mobile device for school if the schools allowed it, and parents seemed particularly interested in their children using these devices in order to access online textbooks.
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there were some interesting differences between what digital skills teachers thought were important and what skills students thought they needed to know.
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"We don't often stop and ask students - or their parents - what they think their technology needs are. But the newly-released Speak Up 2010 survey has done just that .. The results are pretty fascinating, as they show great adoption of technology among even very young students, but lingering resistance on the part of school administrators to sanction some of those tools into the classroom."
5 Powerful Social Media Tools For Your Classroom | Edudemic - 5 views
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Social media tools can help break the barriers set by the walls of schools. Learning and communicating outside the school hours with technology aid is a modern adaptation of education that has showed great results. This post looks at some web tools that provide school-specific tools that are just as powerful in facilitating the communication inside the student-teacher-parent triangle as the more famous popular social networking sites..
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,''
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"THE future of Victoria's troubled online education network is in doubt, with many schools refusing to use it amid complaints it is clunky and outdated and the security wall does not provide a real-life cyber environment."
What Students And Parents Think About Mobile Technology - Edudemic - 2 views
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Simple infographic that seeks to show just how integrated mobile technology has been integrated into the lives of students of all ages.
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