by Sandy Phillips | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Ovetta Wiggins, Published: January 28 As she punched numbers into a calculator, Luka Fernandez had a lot to figure out. How much could she afford to pay for a car? Should she buy cable? Where should she live?These are the types of questions facing many adults as...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
