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Global2 on your iPad or android device
Mar 4th
The Edublogs app is designed to be used with Edublogs and Edublogs Campus blogs. Global2 is an Edublog Campus.
All you need to do to use it with a Global 2 blog is:
- Download the Edublogs app –https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/edublogs/id526466328?mt=8
- Launch the Edublogs app and click on Add Edublogs Campus site –http://help.edublogs.org/2012/12/05/blogging-using-an-ios-device/
- Add your blog URL, username, password and tap Save.
You’ll find our comprehensive support documentation here –http://help.edublogs.org/ios/ You can also access this Help Guide directly inside the Edublogs app.
The WordPress for Android App also works really well with Global2
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations – Sound Infusion receives award in Vienna
Feb 28th
Sound Infusion encourages intercultural dialogue in a fun, flexible and informative way to support school curriculums through innovative web 2.0 based technologies. Online support material include videos, photos, text-based information and web-links that allow users to further explore and discover the myriad of cultures that can be found in societies through music. Sound Infusion also comes with extensive Teacher Resource Notes which assist teachers in seamlessly incorporating the application into a school’s educational program.
Sound Infusion complements the broader aims of Cultural Infusion which is dedicated to creating intercultural contact for a positive change and aims to build harmony and wellbeing through a range of sustainable arts and engagement programs. Cultural Infusion’s “Discovering Diversity” education program is delivered to an annual audience of more than 200,000 students.
Sound Infusion received an Honourable mention in the awards in Vienna this week. See all Projects
Sound Infusion was developed as a partnership between The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Cultural Infusion
Policy Online
Feb 21st
Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zealand.
Policy Online monitors over 500 sources each week including academic research centres and institutes, government departments, think tanks, NGOs and other media and information networks, in order to select and catalogue high quality open access research on public interest issues in Australia. Currently we have over 16,000 research records linking to full text resources.
The site specialises in reports and articles on public interest issues but also includes peer-reviewed journal articles and ebooks from Australia and internationally.
As well as research, Policy Online offers commentary articles, video, audio and web resources, topic guides, books, calls for papers and a range of paid listings for events, jobs and courses. Here is a link to Education relevant policy but here is an interesting article on Australian Internet activities
ACMI Hothouse intensive program for Victorian students
Feb 18th
Hothouse
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Tall poppies grow here.
Hothouse is a week-long intensive program for Victorian students in Years 10 to 12, aimed at nurturing creativity and moving image skills.
Ten students are hand-picked each year and dropped into a fast-paced production studio, to gain hands-on production experience, contacts in the industry and plenty of career inspiration! Full Details
What are the social benefits of education?
Feb 13th
Education brings wide-ranging benefits to the society. For instance, more educated people tend to live longer…
What is the ultimate purpose of education? Early philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato pointed out that education was central to the moral fulfilment of individuals and the well-being of the society in which they live. In the past few decades, research has supported this conventional wisdom, revealing that education not only enables individuals to perform better in the labour market, but also helps to improve their overall health, promote active citizenship and contain violence. The analysis below presents evidence on the relationship between education and social outcomes including health, civic engagement and subjective well-being across many OECD countries.
Life expectancy reflects a long trajectory of individuals’ socio-economic circumstances that affect their health conditions and other mortality risks. In OECD countries, life expectancy at birth, on average, reached 80 years in 2010. Women live almost six years longer than men, averaging 83 years vs. 77 for men.
Life expectancy reflects a long trajectory of individuals’ socio-economic circumstances that affect their health conditions and other mortality risks. In OECD countries, life expectancy at birth, on average, reached 80 years in 2010. Women live almost six years longer than men, averaging 83 years vs. 77 for men.
Data show that life expectancy is strongly associated with education. Full Article
Don’t Run Away From Teaching Pop Culture By Marc D. Hauser
Feb 12th
Check out the music children listen to, and you will hear rap and hip-hop songs about sex, violence, women as objects, and domination. Sometimes the questionable language is explicit and sometimes it’s implicit, veiled in metaphors. Ask children if the content is appropriate or what the song is about, and you will get one of four answers:
“I don’t know. I just like the music.”
“I don’t know, but it’s OK because it doesn’t have any swears in it.”
“I know it has cursing in it so I listen to the ‘clean’ version.”
“I know it’s about sex and violence, but I like the beat.”
When children think that music is inappropriate, most often they believe that the moral infraction lies with the use of profanity. If you clean up the words, you cleanse the moral space and thus are free to listen, they believe. In fact, YouTube is littered with tunes that are designated “clean” because censors have “bleeped out” the swearing in them. But that really isn’t good enough. Full article
Staff in Australia’s Schools Survey 2013
Feb 1st
ACER is conducting the third cycle of the Staff in Schools survey (SiAS) in 2013. SiAS is an Australia-wide survey to collect information directly from school teachers and leaders about their background and qualifications, their work, their career intentions, and school staffing issues. A large sample of primary and secondary schools in all sectors and states and territories will be randomly selected and invited to participate in SiAS.
The voluntary survey, which should take approximately 15 minutes to complete, is intended to provide a snapshot of the Australian teacher workforce, including demographic information such as gender, age, qualifications and work roles. It will also gather information that may be used to assist in planning for the future, including data from current teachers and school leaders about their employment intentions and career plans, and staffing issues that schools are facing. This survey will also map key trends since the previous SiAS surveys in 2006-07 and 2010.
SiAS has been commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The Advisory Committee includes representatives of government and non-government school authorities in all states and territories, national principals associations, teacher unions, teacher education institutions and the ABS. The on-line survey will be conducted in April and May.
For further information visit www.acer.edu.au/sias
Washington Post – Students and financial literacy
Jan 29th
By Ovetta Wiggins, Published: January 28
Q&A: Quest for ‘Digital Wisdom’ Hinges on Brains and Machines: An interview with Marc Prensky
Jan 25th
Marc Prensky has written a number of books about the integration of technology and education. In his latest, Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom, he argues that technology can be used to enhance the human brain and improve the way people process information. In a recent interview with Editorial Intern Mike Bock for the US Education Week’s Digital Education blog, Mr. Prensky talked about what teachers and education leaders can do to get more out of technology Full article
Nobody uses the internet because the government says they should: article by Julian Thomas and Ellie Rennie
Jan 24th
THE average house in a remote Indigenous community uses about a third of the power consumed by a suburban home, is six times more prone to overcrowding, and probably doesn’t have a home internet connection. Among the rare exceptions – at least when it comes to the internet – are twenty houses in the small communities of Kwale Kwale, Mungalawurru and Imangara in central Australia. With federal funding, these households have been given computers, internet access and training, and receive regular visits and advice.
