India has backed measures taken in Australia to protect Indian students, says Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard. After her ‘warm and constructive’ 45-minute meeting with Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, she told The Age that, despite the recent media storm in India surrounding attacks on Indian students, Dr Singh was ‘very approving’ of Australia’s efforts. The Age, 3 September 2009
Archive for September, 2009
Countries agree on students
September 4th, 2009How students, professors, and colleges are, and should be, using social media
September 4th, 2009An interview with S. Craig Watkins, an associate professor of radio, TV, and film at the University of Texas at Austin, about the new age of social networking and media, and what it means for the classroom of the future. His soon-to-be-published book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, touches on those ideas. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 August 2009
Facebook to help teacher professional development
September 4th, 2009The Northern Territory Department of Education and Training is working with Charles Darwin University to trial a program of online professional development for Accelerated Literacy teachers in remote settings. CDU News, 3 September 2009
Learning at the chalkface – Rethinking how we train the teachers of tomorrow
September 4th, 2009For some time now, there has been concern about the quality of teacher education courses. Wave after wave of reviews on the subject all end up pointing the finger at university education departments – that they are out of touch with reality. Campus Review, 31 August 2009
