Award-winning journalist and former Victorian arts and education minister Mary Delahunty will head a new national writers centre based in Canberra. Delahunty hopes to use her position as national director of Writing Australia to help writers overcome the challenges of working in an evolving literary landscape. She said helping writers understand copyright protection in new mediums, such as the iPad and e-books, was one of the tasks Writing Australia, which is funded by the Australian Council for the Arts, would undertake after its launch later this year.
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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 […]