Our students
How can we meet the learning needs of our 21st century students?
Listening to students
How do young people use technology when it seems (to them) completely normalised? What are student’s expectations about learning with technologies? Here is some of the latest articles
- The Demos 2007 paper, Their space: Education for a digital generation focuses on how students use new technologies
- Supporting student learning environments in a digital age: listening to young people, published in 2007 is an executive summary of an investigation into ways students learning can be supported by the provision of digital resources from a focus group of students
- The article, Listening to young people in a digital age was published in EQ in 2008, discusses the findings of the study described in the paper, Supporting student learning environments in a digital age: listening to young people
- Student’s voices learning with technologies: A literature review was published in 2008. It aimed to determine the gaps in our knowledge about learning using technology from the perspective of students
Being safe and responsible online
The Australian Government website, NetAlert provides practical information and advice for families.
Safer internet day 2009 aims to raise awareness about safe and responsible use of new technologies.
The NSWDET’s Click: a technology guide for parents includes technology terms explained and information about social networking online.
The NSWDET’s Internet and email services: acceptable usage for schools policy defines appropriate and acceptable use of the internet and email services provided to schools.
Professional reading
Two major reviews were published in 2008:
- United States, The Internet safety Technical Task Force final report, Enhancing child safety and online technologies
- From the United Kingdom, The Byron review, Safer children in a digital world is the report of an independent review of the risks for children from the internet and video games
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