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COMPUTER SECURITY
Electoral data breach
Tas Electoral Commission media release, 30 Jun 2018
HackersThe name, address, date of birth and email address of 4,000 voters who applied for an express vote in Tasmania's recent  State and Legislative Council elections have been stolen from a server of the Barcelona-based Typeform service...

Bullet Typeform announces breach after hacker grabs backup file, bleepingcomputer.com, 29 Jun 2018

STUDENT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Wellbeing Strategy launched
Tas Govt media release, 28 Jun 2018
Wellbeingn Strategy (DoE)
Education minister Jeremy Rockliff has launched the DoE's first Wellbeing Strategy which focuses on mental health and cybersafety....

Bullet Child and Student Wellbeing Strategy, DoE website

MOBILE PHONE POLICY
Don't ban mobile phones
The Conversation (opinion), 28 Jun 2018
NSW
Following the plan by NSW to consider whether smartphones should be banned in schools, four of five experts say mobile devices should NOT be banned in schools...

EDUCATION FUNDING
Disability funding boosted
Tas Govt media release, 25 Jun 2018
Disabilities
Funding for students with a disability has been increased by $6.79 million this year, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Broadcasting boosts attendance
ABC News, 25 Jun 2018
Aboriginal flag
Preparing and presenting weekly Indigenous radio shows has improved the attendance of students at Smithton Primary School where one-third of the students identify as Aboriginal...

WORLD NEWS
Zimbabwe assassination attempt
ABC News, 24 Jun 2018
Zimbabwe flag
Zimbabwe's president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, missed injury or death by only centimetres in an explosion which injured his vice president and several other people...

NAPLAN
Only a "narrow" NAPLAN review
ABC News, 23 Jun 2018
NAPLAN
Instead of the much called-for comprehensive review of NAPLAN, a "narrow" review will focus on the presentation of data that allows news media to create school league tables, federal education minister Simon Birmingham says ...

Bullet Comprehensive review was wanted by unions as cover-up, says Birmingham, Doorstop interview, Adelaide, 22 Jun 2018
Bullet AEU welcomes Labor's promise to review NAPLAN, AEU website, 21 Jun 2018
Bullet Labor backs NAPLAN review, Tanya Plibersek, Opposition education spokesperson, 21 Jun 2018

MOBILE PHONE POLICY
Ban smartphones?
ABC News, 21 Jun 2018
NSW
The NSW government will consider whether smartphones should be banned in schools while allowing students to use only mobile phones that have no internet or camera function...

BUDGET REPLY SPEECH
Greens' budget reply delivered
Greens website, 20Jun 2018
Cassy O'Connor
The Greens' costed budget reply speech includes provision for more teacher assistants, social workers and specialist support staff, and shifting education institutions towards contemporary best practice
Bullet See Greens 2018-19 Alternative Budget for full details
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Jobs threatened by Greens Alternative Budget, Peter Gutwein, Treasurer, 20 Jun 2018

SOCCER WORLD CUP
Optus extends free SBS soccer coverage
SBS, 20 Jun 2018
Soccer ball
Technologically-challenged telco Optus is allowing SBS to extend the free broadcasting of ALL Soccer World Cup Matches until Friday 29 June.
As well, the Optus streaming service will be free to all Australians until Friday 31 August..

Bullet UPDATE 28 Jun 2018: SBS will show free ALL remaining games including the finals now

BUDGET REPLY SPEECH
Education's role reiterated
TasLabor media release, 19Jun 2018
Rebecca White
Education links social and economic prosperity, Opposition leader Rebecca White said in her Budget Reply speech...

Bullet Industry Advisory Councils to promote skills, TasLabor media release, 19 Jun 2018

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Budget Reply analysis, ABC News, 20 Jun 2018
Bullet No plan or vision, Peter Gutwein, Treasurer, 20 Jun 2018

Soccer ballSOCCER WORLD CUP
Optus soccer failure: SBS helps out
SBS, 18Jun 2018
SBS will broadcast free ALL World Cup soccer matches over the next 48 hours in view of a technical inability by Optus to provide the service to its paying customers...

Royal Hobart ShowSCHOOL EXCURSIONS
No Wednesday Hobart Show day
Hobart Showgrounds website, 17 Jun 2018
(If site still unavailable, try cached version)

As a trial, the traditional Hobart Show Wednesday used by schools will not operate this year, due to falling student numbers...

SPORT
Soccer losing out
The Conversation (opinion by Steve Georgakis), 15 Jun 2018
Soccer ball
Soccer was on an upward growth path in Australia a few years ago but now the sport (at least men's soccer) is losing out to Australian Rules and Rugby League, an academic writes...

EDUCATIONAL PLANNING
Vision statements just words?
The Conversation (opinion by Kelly Allen and Peggy Kern), 15 Jun 2018
School vision and mission statements can have tangible benefits for the school and its community, two academics argue...

STATE BUDGET
Teacher numbers good, pay bad
AEU (Tas) website, 14 Jun 2018
AEU
AEU state president Helen Richardson has welcomed the State Budget's provision for the promised extra 250 teachers and 80 teacher assistants over six years, but she is disappointed over its provision for only a 2 per cent pay rise...

STATE BUDGET
State Budget delivered
ABC News, 14 Jun 2018
Peter GutweinThe Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, has brought down the State Budget.

Bullet State Budget web site (Tas Govt)
Bullet Budget media releases

  Dot Turbo-charging TasTAFE
 Dot Extending high schools to Year 12
 Dot Boosting the education workforce
 Dot Investing in health, education and Tasmanians in need

Bullet Budget quick links
Bullet Winners and losers, ABC News, 14 Jun 2018
Bullet Budget analysis, ABC News, 14 Jun 2018
Bullet Promise-keeping budget, ABC News, 15 Jun 2018

WEATHER ALERT
UPDATE 15 Jun 2018: As the period for the following warning has passed, the warning is CANCELLED.
Severe weather warning for North
BoM, 14 Jun 2018
Wind
Damaging winds gusting to around 100km/h with possible thunder are forecast for tonight (Thursday) and early tomorrow morning across the northern coastal areas of Tasmania...

Bullet BoM warnings
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Power outages (TasNetworks)
Bullet Road closures (Tas Police)

WORLD POLITICS
Peace in our time
ABC News, 12 Jun 2018, 4.00pm
Trump and Kim
President Trump said "The world will see a major change" and that denuclearisation will begin "very quickly", following the signing of a document with North Korea's Kim Jong-un in Singapore a few minutes ago...

Bullet ABC News 24 live coverage

CURRICULUM
Economics interest rate plummets
ABC News, 13 Jun 2018
Graph downwards
The number of students choosing Year 12 Economics has fallen by 70 per cent over the last 25 years, a concerned Reserve Bank official says...

Bullet Economics has an image problem among students, The Conversation (opinion), 14 Jun 2018

HOMELESSNESS
Explaining homelessness to kids
ABC News, 12 Jun 2018
Homelessness (Image: SBS)
Talking to children about homelessness should be carried out with compassion rather than in a way that creates fear, a journalist writes...

STEM
Why create STEAM from STEM?
The Conversation (opinion), 11 Jun 2018
STEM
Giving STEM subjects an arts dimension ensures science students, teachers and researchers benefit from methods used in the creative process characteristic of the arts, three researchers say...

MedicalSTUDENT HEALTH
Choosing health websites
The Conversation (opinion by Karen Scott and Patrina Ha Yuen Caldwell), 11 Jun 2018
Two medical academics provide parents with guidelines on choosing websites that contain advice about children's health...

School lockdown (Image: Taslearn)SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Lockdown song controversy
ABC News, 8 Jun 2018
US social media appear to be divided over a Kindergarten's display of a nursery rhyme that is designed to encourage safe behaviour by children during a school shooting...

BrainCOMPUTERS IN THE CLASSROOM
Learners and computers
ABC News, 8 Jun 2018
Could typing, as opposed to handwriting, bypass the neural pathways that facilitate learning? ...

 

Hands upSTUDENT ASSESSMENT
Formative vs summative assessment
The Conversation (opinion by Rod Lane), 8 Jun 2018
Although formative and summative assessment each has its place, the ongoing feedback provided by formative assessment seems set to become increasingly required...

Sam Kerr backflip (Image: ABC)STUDENT SAFETY
Debate over backflip bans
ABC News, 7 Jun 2018
Some schools are banning students from performing backflips out of concern they might injure themselves when attempting to imitate celebratory backflips by sporting heroes such as the Matildas' Sam Kerr...

COMPUTER SECURITY
Does PageUp data breach affect our students?
ZDNet, 6 Jun 2018
Hackers
A security breach of the PageUp job application software run by many government and business organisations such as the University of Tasmania and Coles has compromised applicants' contact and other details...
Bullet STUDENTS CAUGHT UP: This possibly places at risk the email addresses and other data of the many Tasmanian school students who have applied for part-time jobs at Coles during the last 18 months.

Bullet Data breach hits Tas Government job seekers, ABC News, 6 May 2018
Bullet Advice from StaySmartOnline (Aust Govt website)

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
History of history teaching has been a verbal war
The Conversation (opinion by Rebecca Cairns), 6 June 2018
Australian curriculum
It seems that every politician has had a view on what should be included in the history curriculum in Australia...

STUDENT WELFARE
Wellbeing policy launched
Tas Govt media release, 6 June 2018
Tas Government
The Minister for Human Services, Roger Jaensch, has launched the state government's Tasmanian Child and Youth Wellbeing Framework ...

Bullet Strong Families, Safe Kids, DHHS website
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Tasmanian Child and Youth Wellbeing Framework [pdf]

SCHOOL FARMS
School farm boost
Tas Govt media release, 5 June 2018
Lamb
Next week's State Budget will provide for increased spending on school farm teacher numbers and running costs, especially benefiting Oatlands District High, Sheffield District High and Jordan River School Farm, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...

TEACHING PROFESSION
Awards for staff
Tas Govt media release, 2 June 2018
Together We Inspire
The Education Department is calling for nominations by 1 July 2018 for the Together We Inspire awards that recognise contributions by teachers, other staff and volunteers...

SCHOOL CHAPLAINS
Proselytising?
ABC News, 1 June 2018
School chaplains
A claim by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young that a Victorian school chaplain engaged in proselytising by telling an anorexic student she was "hungering for the word of God" is to be investigated...

HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Cheap lunches
ABC News, 1 June 2018
FruitClarendon Vale Primary is one of many Tasmanian schools following the Love In A Lunch Box program which shows parents that healthy school lunches can be prepared easily and cheaply...

Bullet Love In A Lunchbox Challenge 2018, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training, 30 May 2018

 

 

 

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