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Category Archives: Australian education


21st Century Learning seminar, 11 September

June 16, 2009 – 12:20 pm

A one day seminar to be held in Sydney on 11 September showcasing leading edge technology in education.
Featuring speakers from
* Apple
* Microsoft
* CISCO
* Telstra
MCEETYA Melbourne Declaration on educational goals for young Australians.
‘Globalisation and technological change are placing greater demands on education and skill development in Australia and the nature of jobs available to young Australians […]

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Pre-service education in Australia - survey

June 2, 2009 – 10:04 am

Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service (SICTAS) project provides opportunity for the Department of Education, Employment and Workforce Development (DEEWR) to identify areas for investigation that are of immediate interest and to commission short reports that provide immediate and rapid response to deliver advice on particular questions.
Examples of recently produced reports can be found in a […]

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SICTAS - Research in Action

May 1, 2009 – 10:14 am

Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service (SICTAS) is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).
The primary purpose of SICTAS is to undertake a series of studies in a broad range of areas to investigate the current and future impacts of emerging technologies and to provide strategic advice to assist policy […]

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Australian Educator recognised by ISTE

April 29, 2009 – 10:00 am

Congratulations to Sue Urban (CEGSA Vice President) who has been awarded the ISTE’s 2009 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award!
Late last year Sue was named CEGSA’s Computer Educator of the Year, and then the ACCE Australian Computer Educator of the Year.
Sue teaches at Wilderness school in Adelaide. can be found at her newly created […]

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Riding on the back of the kangaroo?

April 20, 2009 – 8:00 am

When I was a child lessons were full of how Australia was riding on the sheep’s back. In history we learnt about John MacArthur and the importance of the introduction of merinos (from Spain), and about explorers who opened up the inland so that the flocks could have new grazing land. In geography we mapped […]

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Collaboration in Teaching and Learning - SICTAS REPORT

March 31, 2009 – 8:00 am

Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service (SICTAS) recent investigation looked at the implementation of collaborative methodologies in education and training. Collaborative tools are widely available to support teaching and learning in the education sector. Technologies such as virtual worlds and serious games, and web2.0 collaborative environments are crossing over from entertainment into education.
Read about it […]

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ICT in schools in the digital age: an overview of the literature

March 27, 2009 – 12:56 pm

Many thanks to the CMIS Evaluation blog for pointing me to the first 2009 issue of the WACOT Digest, written by Margaret Meiers for ACER and titled The use of ICT in schools in the digital age: what does the research say?
While the Digest does not really say anything new it does present a very […]

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Students in Australian Schools - ABS Stats

March 26, 2009 – 7:00 am

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the current statistics for Australian education, school sector.
This publication contains statistics on school, students and teaching staff involved in the provision or administration of primary and secondary education, in government and non-government schools for all Australian states and territories.
Schools are classified by level of education (primary, secondary or […]

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Horizon Report 2009 K12 Edition

March 25, 2009 – 8:41 am

The first ever Horizon Report for the K12 sector describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education.
See web version or download pdf.
The Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 edition is a publication of the New […]

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The growth of social networking

March 23, 2009 – 8:42 am

A recent Nielsen report on Social Networking’s “New Global Footprint” Global Faces and Networked Places (March 2009) begins with the statement “Social Networking has been the global consumer phenomenon of 2008″.
In one sense that statement isn’t telling us anything new, and in many ways the report confirms that the juggernaut that began rolling across the […]

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