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More than 200 Western Australian secondary school students will help shape the future of cyberspace today, as part of a world-first study into cyber bullying.
One in five Australian children has an anxiety disorder, thanks to modern conveniences such as mobile phones and shopping centres.
Fast-paced living - too little sleep, too many gadgets, too much sugar, too many demands and too little family support - is making children overly anxious, an international expert in childhood disorders told an Australian psychiatry conference yesterday.
ACT students went back to school this week and, in crucial ways, many of them will actually have to ''power down'' their potential when they are in class.
It's one of the conundrums of the 21st century. Our kids can use the digital world like we mastered the microwave, but we make them leave their skills and technology at the classroom door.
The State Government is set to roll out the next phase of its multi-million dollar Learning With Information and Communications Technology (LWICT) project.
Education and Training Minister Mark McGowan said the project, which boosted student learning through information and communications technology, would expand to an additional 21 public schools by the end of the year.
The One Laptop Per Child initiative has set up shop in Australia with a local board planning to lobby State and Federal governments to fund a roll-out into local communities.
OLPC is a global non-profit organisation that aims to distribute low-cost laptops to poor children around the world.
Facebook the world's second-largest social networking website, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies.
The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users' ability to search online for subscribers under 18 and building a task force seeking ways to better verify users' ages and identities.
At least six public high schools in NSW conduct "roll call" by scanning student fingerprints, but the Department of Education yesterday suspended the project at Ku-ring-gai High School as it investigates complaints that parents were not properly consulted.
Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet) is working with the National Museum of Australia in Canberra and the NSW Department of Education and Training, to provide high school students in rural and remote areas of NSW with live, two-way videoconference access to the Talkback Classroom forums held by the
Museum.
