Work has started to provide broadband Internet services to more than 1600 Victorian Government school under the Victorian Government's $89 million VicSmart initiative funded in this year's State Budget. Link: Broadband Rollout to 1600 Victorian Schools Underway
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A major intitiative in online education 'CensusAtSchool' has now been launched. The program, which will involve students from Years 5 to 12, is free, voluntary and open to all Australian schools. It basically involves students from around the country taking part in their own census. The questionnaire response data will then be released back to teachers and students providing real,…
A report summarising the key factors identified as influencing parents’ decisions to enrol their children at 20 government schools for which there was high demand for enrolments is now available from the Department of Education Science and Training's Web Site. The Age newspaper has also covered the publication of this report in an article today. It can be read here.…
Senior Secondary School Students Perceptions of the World of Work. A new report into the perceptions of work held by senior secondary school students provides a valuable insight into the current skills shortage and youth unemployment rate by uncovering a significant mismatch between student career aspirations and the reality of the labour market. The study of 3,018 year 10, 11…
After a Four year study, the University of Bristol has concluded that teachers are failing to take advantage of IT in the classroom. The ESRC funded study focused on 10 institutions and explored ways in which IT could be used in English, history, geography, modern languages, science, music and mathematics lessons. Link: Teachers Fear Computers In The Classroom.
This report from CNN looks at the changing face of classrooms. In response to these trends, designers are replacing traditional classrooms with "studios" that contain storage areas for long-term projects and spaces for individual, small-group and large-group work. Link: Design for learning.
Shane Green from the Age writes: A new definition of public education may allow non-government schools to operate as public schools. Private schools would be invited into a new-look, broader public education system, under a radical plan being discussed by Victoria's education community. The independent Education Foundation has produced a paper proposing a new definition of public education, allowing non-government…
While still controversial, National Benchmarking [flawed or otherwise] allows us to begin the exploration of what is most difficult in education... Measuring our impact as educators and making comparisons over time, being able to repeat what works and identify and improve on what is not working. The data is critically important and the time series over the next decade will…
The Challenge of Aligning Teaching and Behaviour Management Barry Fields. The Productive Pedagogies construct has been particularly powerful and influential in defining what schools should be aiming to achieve in teaching and learning. Interestingly, the Productive Pedagogies has as much to say about behaviour management as to does about teaching. This paper explores the direction given to teachers, through the…