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Can formal education remain relevant in the long term? That's one of six critical challenges facing schools identified in a new report examining the impact of technology on education.
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An excellent article about providing alternative learning opportunities via a digital backchannel facility in the classroom
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A novel way to approach learning about digital citizenship in the classroom.
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Global perspective: Schools Japan are redoubling their efforts to teach students rules and ethics for their use of the Internet. Until recently, this kind of education mainly focused on preventing minors from accessing harmful websites. Nowadays, however, education experts agree on the importance of instilling a sense of online ethics early on, to prevent young people from engaging in behavior such as inappropriate use of documents, academic papers and other sources, as well as the questionable posting of photos to the Internet.
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The Cyber Safety Lady is Leonie Smith a cyber safety expert based in Sydney Australia. She gives internet safety advice and and eSafety talks and workshops for teachers, parents, children and business. A quarter of Australian children report they have been cyber bullied. Finding is impossible to keep up with your kids on technology? Do the children/students in your care have the right privacy settings on Facebook? Are your children protected from accessing adult content online? Are online Trolls affecting your business! Are your employees aware of what they are sharing online?
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This article aligns exactly with the ideals and practice of Flat Connections learning - and of course Flat Connections live events where students and teachers learn together in a collaborative environment.
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Here’s your opportunity to transform your education ideas into action in 54 exciting hours. Work with other passionate educators, designers, technologists & entrepreneurs to build real solutions and real products to education problems in one weekend. Beyond an amazing experience there are prizes up for grabs to help the teams make their product a success. The first Australian Startup Weekend Education is being held in Sydney, Australia on the 27th - 29th of June.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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