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Are young teachers more ICT savvy?
Analysis of educator experience and ICT proficiency
In March 2008, edna commissioned market research into ICT use by Australian educators.
The graph below shows how a sample of 1167 Australian educators have assessed their capability into the use of ICT to support their teaching.
Each band shows the percentage of educators with similar levels of teaching experience who described their ICT capability as foundation, emergent, proficient or transforming practice. Findings include:
- overall ICT proficiency levels are similar for educators of all experience levels after 2 years practice
- a greater proportion of teachers who are further into their career (10-20 years plus) rated their proficiency as transforming practice
- late career teachers also use the Internet more frequently
This research appears to dispel conventional wisdom that new teachers are more ICT-savvy than their more experienced counterparts - see blog on this research for more details.
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What's on this month
e-learning conferences and workshops
Shift Happens: Victorian IT Teachers Association (VITTA ) Annual Conference and Expo - Technology Alone Cannot Save Us, Melbourne, 24-26 November.
 e-dayz '08 E-Learning Conference showcases innovative and leading edge e-learning approaches from the South Australian VET community, Adelaide, 13-14 November.
 Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop is for Australian researchers, educators and business (higher education), Melbourne and Second Life, November 28-29.
More upcoming e-learning conferences and workshops at edna events.
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In the Pool with the ABC
ABC social media project is keen to work with educators
 Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more.
ABC is looking forward to partnering with educators to work out new ways to use Pool.
There have already been some interesting uses by educators:
Contact the Pool team via the Contact Us link on the Pool website.
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Back to the future
edna c1995 - a presentation by Evan Arthur
An Information Session on EdNA
 a presentation by Evan Arthur
Head, Information Networking Taskforce
Department of Employment, Education and Training
Tuesday 17th October 1995
What is it?
EdNA will be facilitated through the Internet. It is a collaborative venture between the Commonwealth and State governments to determine if there is some value in education systems acting cooperatively in the use of
computer systems and computer operations.
1995 ANU Transcript of Information Session on EdNA
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The Networker gets a makeover!
The (new) Networker e-newsletter will include improved subcription and forwarding options, a new look and will be published monthly.
Feedback or suggestions for contributions are welcome, or go to the subscriptions page to manage your education.au newsletter subscriptions.
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The Communicator
has been an email version of news headlines drawn from each education sector.
This email service has been discontinued although the content will continue to be available by visiting edna News headlines or subscribing to RSS feeds.
Visit the subscriptions page to subscribe or unsubscribe to education.au newsletters.
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It is possible to do most, perhaps all my work off-line but it would be a tremendous hassle and waste of time and energy.
The Internet does not merely assist my work; rather it is the platform for my work.
edna ICT survey respondent
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Australian educators blogging
Blog post (how else?) on why Australian educators should blog, with many examples by Concetta Gotlieb.
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