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Using Interactive Whiteboards: Transforming Teaching and Learning through the Activclassroom (Early Bird). Barbara Peskin, Instructional Technology Specialist, Concord Middle School, Concord, MAInteractive whiteboards have transformed teaching and learning in the Concord classrooms. During this earlybird workshop I will share how our middle school integrates Promethean’s ActivBoard software and hardware into all our curriculum areas by showing lesson examples from English,…
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HECS for TAFE: the case for extending income contingent loans. In this paper, a case is argued for introducing an income contingent loan to the VET sector. The economic underpinning is similar to the Higher Education Scheme (HECS) which is identified as a useful guide. It is established that there is significant returns from a VET qualification. For example, diplomas…
Closer Toward High-yield Fusion Reactor: Revolutionary Circuit Fires Thousands Of Times Without Flaw. An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine facility. [ScienceDaily Headlines]
Forms of Employment, Australia. One in seven Australian workers employed on contract [Australian Bureau of Statistics]
Skills for a nation: A blueprint for improving education and training 2007-2017. In this document the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) is promoting a series of policies that will help make the education system better, and help power the Australian economy through the first half of the 21st Century. It has sections on early childhood and primary school…
Skills for a nation: Chapter 4: Early childhood, pre-school and primary school education. Chapter 4 of 'Skills for a nation: a blueprint for improving education and training 2007-2017' states that early years of a child's learning makes a significant difference to the way they develop and go on to learn throughout their lives. Key ACCI proposals are: governments implement policies…
Kurt Fischer of Harvard University is working to improve education through applying knowledge gained through biology. Kurt Fischer and his colleagues looked at the revolution in brain scanning, genetics, and other biological technologies and decided that most teachers and students weren