According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1993 approximately 37% of teaching staff in South Australia were males but by 2009 this proportion had fallen to 31%.

These days children are unskilled at basic movements such as throwing, running and jumping, according to a landmark study linking NSW children’s lack of fundamental movement skills with their sedentary lifestyles.

With the move to the Cloud there is much to be careful of. Here’s a story that will bring you down to earth and make you think about our kid’s future.

Tens of thousands of notebooks have walked out of NSW public school with the completion of the first round of the Federal Government’s $2.4 billion Digital Education Revolution programme.

EdAlive’s (www.edalive.com) multi-award wining ZooWhiz online learning system is available for the exploding world of mobile computing. The mobile version of ZooWhiz does not require an App. Users simply access www.ZooWhiz.com from their iPad Android tablet and they are automatically redirected to the the ZooWhiz for Mobiles. Users don’t need a special browser.

Facebook is reportedly looking to open membership for kids younger than 13 in a bid to increase their revenue base.

Schools everywhere are upgrading their computing systems to Windows 7 so now is your opportunity to prepare for the move and use all the latest EdAlive software in the meantime. No hassles! To assist schools in the transition we have created the “Complete Unlimited0 School Wide Licence” containing all 60 of EdAlives amazing titles in one! If your school already owns licences for some of the titles then you deduct…

Microsoft is calling for a $5 billion investment in US education particularly in maths, science and technology and engineering as engineering companies are running into hugh shortages of workers.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has always known his mandatory internet filtering scheme was a white elephant but waited years for a politically opportune moment to dump the failed and toxic policy. Many family family focused groups will be concerned for the safety of children on the Internet having hoped that the filter would create a more benign environment for children.

There is little doubt that tomorrow is going to be electronic, and that’s an exciting thought… or at least it should be! For this very reason, many educators are striving to embrace technology. It is time to recognise that technology has become more than registration, planning, e-mailing or other administrative tasks.

There are huge positives that handheld technology can bring to the classroom, but there’s one major area of concern for that must be addressed if schools ‘iPad Journey’ is going to hit the ground running  – it’s the schools wireless network!    

www.ZooWhiz.com published by EdAlive, the Armidale–based online educational software and learning publisher, has been announced as the overall winner of the 2012 Northern Inland Innovation Award. The judges gave them first place in the Education and Research category as well as the grand prize for the overall winner as well! This is the second award for ZooWhiz with many more to come. ZooWhiz is the FREE online learning system for kids…

A simple outline of how Cloud Computing works for teachers and schools.

Whilst it is commendable that the UK government intend to ditch the current moribund ICT curriculum the plans seem to hinge on free material prefaced in part by companies including Microsoft and Google. We must ensure that corporate interests not dictate our kids future but ensure that children attain computer literacy that goes far beyond competence with word processing software and spreadsheets.

Peru is the country with the most invested in the One Laptop Per Child programme and an estimated $200 million invested. Indications are that children in the programme see a jump in abstract reasoning capabilities, the program has been hampered by teachers who have no experience with computers or the Internet.