Meeting in Adelaide, MCEECDYA has agreed to take forward reforms that will provide better information to governments, parents and the wider community; improve the quality of early childhood, school and Indigenous education; and contribute to the development, wellbeing and educational outcomes of all Australia's young people from their earliest age. Ministers agreed on a draft Indigenous Education Action Plan, and also considered the preliminary results from the 2009 Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) data collection. DEEWR, 6 November 2009.
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- Education Network AustraliaEducation Network Australia (edna) was a collaborative project between all Australian governments, states and territories and sectors of education and training. The project was partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Initiated in 1994 as a means to facilitate access to the internet for schoo […]
- Protection of children online. Risks faced by children online and policies to protect themAs increasing numbers of children worldwide enjoy the benefits of the Internet, they also face a spectrum of risks to which they are more vulnerable than adults. This report examines these risks as well as the policy responses of governments and other stakeholders to improve the protection of children online.
- ICT and the Australian CurriculumCurrently there is no published curriculum documentation for ICT Competence as a GC. Rather its place in the Australian Curriculum is recognised within each of the four published learning areas through embedding in content descriptions and/or achievement standards. As a learning area, work is just beginning on determining ICT's 'conceptual' ho […]