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Keeping schools and learning safe online during COVID-19
As it stands, cybersecurity awareness in K-12 is low leaving school systems open to digital attack with exploitable security vulnerabilities…
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Sending children back to school during coronavirus has human rights implications
Debates about a return to classroom learning in Australia are fraught, and parents have mixed feelings as to what may…
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Schools have been ideological battlegrounds in the past. In the coronavirus crisis, they are again
Coalition governments explicitly, and over time aggressively, favoured private schools.
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‘I spoke about Dreamtime, I ticked a box’: teachers say they lack confidence to teach Indigenous perspectives
Teachers must critically reflect on their own identity and how it potentially influences their personal bias and worldview. They must…
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Op-Ed: Online learning: Rethinking teachers’ ‘digital competence’ in light of COVID-19
Teachers have quickly found that they cannot expect students to be doing the same things online at home as they…
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Victoria socially distances from ScoMo’s confusing school COVID-19 guidelines
Education Minister Dan Tehan wants schools back to normal from the end of May but teacher unions are raising serious…
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Teachers use 3D ingenuity to help medicos
A doctor with a student at Dudley Public School contacted Assistant Principal Jason Horadam to ask if it was possible…
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COVID-19: The steep learning curve for online education
Existing research suggests online education can be as effective as traditional classroom-based education, even if it's often seen as a…
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5 reasons it’s safe for kids to go back to school
Returning to schools is safe. Our leaders are advised on this issue by some of the best infectious diseases, public…
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Cyber threats at home: how to keep kids safe while they’re learning online
Children working at home are not usually protected by the filters provided by their school.
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