
Technology is changing education at an unprecedented rate. Children today are entering a world of digital opportunity like never before but at the same time there are risks and down sides. EdAlive eNews for Teachers keeps you up to date with developments from around the world and ail in one easy to access place.
Staff and social media: a head teacher’s perspective

With today’s these new technologies come serious implications for privacy and safeguarding our professional integrity. Alarmingly, some teachers are blithely unaware of, or choose to ignore, situations that could cause untold damage to their careers. Dave Foresahw investigates some of the pitfalls for teachers.

Cloud computing for teachers in the Philippines

Cloud computing grows in Manilla with over 600,000 with over 600,000 public school teachers gaining access to Google cloud services.

Viral videos leave deaf out of the loop, say advocates

VIRAL videos may be good for sharing ideas and spreading funny foreign pop hits, but they are also leaving millions of deaf and hearing impaired people out of the loop. Ths same must be true in the education arena!

ZooWhiz Mobile now has sound! Go to www.zoowhiz.com to check it out!

We launched ZooWhiz Mobile a couple of weeks back but we were still working on the sound for the reading module. It’s now finished and works superbly well. Our programming team have scaled quite a technical mountain in streaming sound to ZooWhiz Mobile. Users can now access ZooWhiz from their mobile devices using iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) or Android (phones and tablets). To access ZooWhiz Mobile simply go…

Rogue apps causing bill shock, battery drain

Schools and parents beware – Smartphone apps can cause you to chew through your monthly mobile data limit in a matter of days, while free versions of apps often end up costing more than the paid premium version and eat up your battery life, new data shows.

Education in the information age: is technology making us stupid?

The question is, does this make us knowledgeable experts or is the easy access to information making us stupid? Ultimately, the future of technology-enabled learning and education is in a synthesis of the science of learning and the art of teaching. Developing expertise in expertise will help us figure out how we can educate future generations of students to become wise and knowledgeable in a world where information is cheap and…

Tasmanian middle school using cloud computing for down-to-earth education

Cloud? What’s that?

The term cloud computing has been used a lot lately to describe a myriad online services, as well as additional computing capacity that resides somewhere out there. Defining it is tricky but not impossible.

Microsoft says Apple’s ‘post-PC’ view is wrong, claims it’s a ‘PC+’ era

Whilst Apple have split their computer operating system apart from its iOS system for iPhone and iPad Microsoft are looking to unify the experience across all devices with its release of Windows 8 for PC and mobile devices.

EdAlive software and the transition to Windows 7

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…

$540m schools scheme fails to boost literacy, numeracy in Australia

Office of National Assessments (AONA) has found that the $322 million spent to date has produced mixed results and is yet to make any discernible difference in any state on the average NAPLNA results of schools that received the funding.

iOS, Android adoption now twice as fast as 1990s Internet boom

A new study concludes that the rate of adoption of devices running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history.

Mac “General Maintenance” recommendations

Having troubles with your Mac. Here’s a really great guide to getting it up and running again! If you are having software issues, either with third-party applications or the Mac OS itself, giving the computer a virtual scrub-down will many times help, or at least give you a cleaner slate upon which to do more in-depth troubleshooting.

Legal risks for students using social networking sites

There are significant privacy, intellectual property, copyright and disclosure risks associated with the ill-considered use of social networking sites, however, the implementation of regulatory actions may also undermine the social and emerging educational utility of social networking sites for young people. Inevitably the burden of dealing with the risks of social networking sites must necessarily fall on the development of educational strategies designed to equip young people with the skills…
