AIHW Education resources The AIHW releases around 150 publications every year. Permission for use has been granted under the Creative Commons Licensing, provided AIHW acknowledgment is given. Latest worksheets and presentations (from Australia's health 2016) iPhone/iPad Apps Search in the App store the following Apps: OzHealth app - key facts and figures from the Australia's health 2016 reportOzWelfare app - key facts and figures from the Australia's welfare 2015 report Indigenous health and welfare statistics app—key facts and figures from the The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: 2015 Are you an Android user? Presentations Designed for classroom use and/or inserting into your own presentations. Videos What is burden of disease? Quizzes See below for Quiz answers. Infographics, posters and report profiles Infographics present complex information in a way that is visually stimulating and easily understandable. Resources by subject area Children and youth Disease Drugs Health Injury
Learning - Schools | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE As South Korea approaches nearly universal Internet access (currently 97 percent household broadband penetration), it has enacted new laws and established initiatives to ensure that young Koreans grow up to be well-mannered citizens of the cyberworld: National ethics textbooks for second-graders and up include lessons on Internet etiquette, or "netiquette." Korean schools have 15 textbooks that cover netiquette issues, including computer addiction prevention. Netiquette classes stress positive values, such as respect for online friends and politeness. They also aim to combat cyberbullying and online slander. In response to the suicides of several celebrities who were the targets of negative online messages, Professor Min Byoung-chul of Chung-Ang University founded the Sunfull Movement, an organization that teaches positive cybermessaging. Resources Sunfull Movement official websiteDongA article on Korean ethics textbooksJoongAng Daily article on the identity-checking system
Resources to support a new and open world for learning Googlers are the types who never really leave the classroom. Guest speakers come to campus to give talks on subjects ranging from fiction to physics. Diverse groups of people work together to understand and solve big problems while groups of Googlers engage in passionate debate in our cafeterias. Given this environment, it’s no surprise how highly we value our external work in education. We have a growing number of successful education programs from primary school through to university, as well as a suite of free and open tools that reach families and classrooms around the world. Recently, we decided to gather our resources and lessons learned into one place for educators everywhere. To develop all of these new materials, we went straight to the source, relying on dozens of educators to provide stories and feedback. Thanks to educators, students and supporters everywhere for helping to extend our spirit of lifelong learning into classrooms around the globe.
Physical Education Teaching Ideas and Resources | PE4Learning.com Under the spotlight: The mental health of elite athletes - Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, has released the world’s first comprehensive review of the current evidence compiled on the mental health and wellbeing of elite-level athletes. As the world focusses on the 31st Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, the published review shows that while high-quality research exists on the nature and impacts of physical injuries on elite athletes, including head injuries/concussion and limb injuries, there is comparatively little high-quality research available on the mental health and psychological wellbeing of elite-level athletes. On the basis of current evidence, the report published in one of the world’s leading sports medicine journals, states that the majority of young elite athletes appear to experience the same risk of high-prevalence mental health disorders as young people in the general population. “As a high achieving elite athlete, I was extremely naïve in my understanding of mental ill-health.
Using Facebook in the Classroom Juliette and Stephen Heppell Whether it is Facebook, MSN Messenger, Bebo, iChat, Skype, YouTube or any other form of social networking - we know our young people are, and will be, using it. As with all new media, research projects have shown time and again that if young people see a vacant space, they will fill it (and perhaps not always in the most positive way). As the blurring between social and work continues, organisations from universities to work places are using social networks increasingly effectively for work. They often seek for evidence that potential employees or students can be effectively collegiate and understand mutuality - that they can use these new social tools for work and for the workplace. We need to teach young people the way to use them appropriately, to build their sense of entitlement into a sense of responsibility and to work with them on effective and safe strategies for protection whilst using social media.
The Creativity Crisis Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor E. Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the moment when a psychologist handed him a fire truck and asked, “How could you improve this toy to make it better and more fun to play with?” He recalls the psychologist being excited by his answers. In fact, the psychologist’s session notes indicate Schwarzrock rattled off 25 improvements, such as adding a removable ladder and springs to the wheels. The accepted definition of creativity is production of something original and useful, and that’s what’s reflected in the tests. Nobody would argue that Torrance’s tasks, which have become the gold standard in creativity assessment, measure creativity perfectly. The potential consequences are sweeping. Now the brain must evaluate the idea it just generated.
ThePhysicalEducator.com | Physical Education Ideas, Resources, & Professional Development The NSW Physical Literacy continuum K-10 | PDHPE Curriculum, NSW Department of Education and Communities The NSW Department of Education identified the need to increase the quality of the learning opportunities for students through enhancing the educative purpose of planned physical activity and improving teaching, learning and assessment in Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) and School Sport. The Department recognises and promotes physical literacy as a capability which can be applied in contexts broader than just PDHPE or School Sport. The focus on physical literacy allows for and encourages a more personalised approach for all students. Watch our Physical literacy in NSW schools video for an overview of physical literacy, why the department views it as important and how it fits in NSW government schools. Four interrelated critical aspects form the framework of the department’s Physical Literacy continuum K-10: movement competenciestactical movementmotivation and behavioural skillspersonal and social attributes. NSW public school teachers and school executive
Teaching Ideas - Free lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources for use in the primary classroom. The Principal of Change Action research: Physical activity and student writing Leah Carter (Assistant Head of English) and Hugo Engele (Director of Co-Curricula) are undertaking a two-year action research project at St Aloysius College, Kirribilli, to investigate the impact of physical activity on student writing ability. Here, they share the research aims and what has happened so far. The pressure on schools to achieve academic results is ever increasing. Is there a space for physicality and creativity at the centre of our complex, cut-throat and dynamic educational climate? Can we foster academic achievement whilst also valuing the things that we know will make our students happy and healthy? Our action research project, ‘Running Writing’, investigates the relationship between physical activity and student writing. What do we know? Firstly, physical activity has an immediately positive impact on an individual’s cognitive functioning both in the short- and long-term (Best, 2010). Put simply, the way we move affects the way we think. School context References
TEDxIB @ York | TEDxIB @ York The 3-in-24 Principle – HSC PDHPE The 3-in-24 principle is a study method that enhances your ability to recall information that you just learnt. The basic idea of this principle is that you revise newly learnt content 3 times in 24 hours. If you apply this 3-in-24 principle you will hugely increase your ability to recall information that you just learnt 2 weeks down the track. The trick to this principle is that you need to do it on the day that you first learn the new content. For example, let’s say that you were learning the types of training and training methods today in class. Now, there is one more important trick to this study principle and that is this, you MUST sleep in-between the second and third time that you study this content. The third and final time that you study types of training and training methods is then in the morning when you wake up before you go to school. Once you get it right, you are all set. Now, don’t be fooled!