<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><rss version="0.91" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ad="http://standards.edna.edu.au/edna_administration/v1.0/"><channel><language>en</language><copyright>1996-2004 by Commonwealth of Australia. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document in whole or in part, provided it is done for educational and non-commercial purposes only and that this entire copyright notice remains attached.</copyright><managingEditor>askedna@edna.edu.au</managingEditor><link>http://api.edna.edu.au/recent.rss</link><title>edna</title><description>Education Network Australia</description><image><title>Education Network Australia</title><link>http://www.edna.edu.au</link><url>http://www.edna.edu.au/images/edna_online_logo.gif</url></image><item><title>Closing the gap: Pre-service teachers' perceptions of an ICT based, student centred learning curriculum</title><link>http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/lee-cb.pdf</link><description>In this paper the authors presents parts of the findings from a curriculum review which evaluated 483 pre-service teachers' overall satisfaction level towards an ICT based SCL course. The authors also provide some recommendations to the ICT curriculum based on the results found.</description></item><item><title>Global Children's Challenge: Applications open</title><link>http://www.gccjunior.com/</link><description>The Global Children's Challenge is a health initiative designed to get children aged 8 to 12 years active. The challenge engages children at a classroom level to record their activity levels, keep healthy and take part in a virtual walk around the world learning about health, nutrition, exercise and the places they visit over the 50 days of the event. The challenge runs from 22 September to 10 November 2010. Places are strictly limited.</description></item><item><title>Millennials: confident, connected, open to change</title><link>http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1501/millennials-new-survey-generational-personality-upbeat-open-new-ideas-technology-bound</link><description>A new U.S. survey focuses on American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium. These young people have begun to forge their generational personality: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change. They embrace multiple modes of selfexpression. Three-quarters have created a profile on a social networking site. One-in-five have posted a video of themselves online. Pew Research Center, 24 February 2010.</description></item><item><title>Charles Perkins opens door to Oxford</title><link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/charles-perkins-opens-door-to-oxford/story-e6frgcjx-1225841580986</link><description>Two Indigenous Australians are off to Oxford, inaugural recipients of the Charlie Perkins Scholarships for postgraduates, presented at Parliament House recently. Until now, there has never been an Indigenous student - undergraduate or postgraduate - enrolled at Oxford. The Australian, 17 March 2010.</description></item><item><title>Reading enriches learning: Values</title><link>http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/rel/values/index.php</link><description>The 'Reading Enriches Learning: Values' collection provides online student-centred activities based on a range of texts. The activities are designed to promote understanding of the nine values for Australian schooling: care and compassion; freedom; doing your best; fair go; honesty and trustworthiness; integrity; respect; responsibility; understanding, tolerance and inclusion. The books have been selected for a range of interests and abilities: for younger readers (years 2-4) and older readers (years 5-8).</description></item><item><title>Reading enriches learning: History</title><link>http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/rel/history/index.php</link><description>The 'Reading Enriches Learning: History' collection provides online student-centred activities based on a range of history-themed texts. The activities are designed to promote discussion of historical events in the classroom, and to help students develop curiosity, understanding and knowledge about times past and to make connections with the present. The fiction and non-fiction books have been selected for a range of interests and abilities: for younger readers (years 2-4) and older readers (years 5-8).</description></item><item><title>Aboriginal Languages Network</title><link>http://www.apps.sa.edu.au/aln.htm</link><description>The Aboriginal Languages Network, based in Port Augusta, South Australia, aims to promote the teaching and learning of Aboriginal Languages: Arabana, Adnyamathanha and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, throughout Port Augusta's schools and beyond. The website provides multimedia interactive games to be used on individual computers or on interactive whiteboards.</description></item><item><title>What teachers think and what teachers do: towards a better understanding of language teaching</title><link>http://humbox.ac.uk/1391/</link><description>This resource could be useful as a training tool for tutors or as a task to get students thinking about the role of a teacher in order to make better use of class time. The resource contains advice and research on what teachers think about teaching. This involves quotes from books and quotes from tutors who have been asked this question. There are also some questions asked, which could be turned into exercises or discussion points.</description></item><item><title>World Statistics Day 2010</title><link>http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/</link><description>On 20 October 2010 the World will celebrate the first World Statistics Day. The celebration will acknowledge the service provided by the global statistical system at national and international level, and hope to help strengthen the awareness and trust of the public in official statistics.</description></item><item><title>17th Annual iEARN International Conference and 14th Annual Youth Summit 2010</title><link>http://www.iearn2010.org/</link><description>The conference brings together from around the world educators who use the Internet and related technologies to enhance project-based learning (PBL) through online collaboration.</description></item></channel></rss>