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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Entry Four - The Government Support of ICT in Schools

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/Documents/DERNatPartnership.pdf

This is the National Partnership Agreement on the Digital Education Revolution. Basically the Australian Government is supporting the use of ICT in schools by investing $2.4 billion over seven years (2008-2014).
The funds will go towards providing ICT equipment to secondary year students, high speed broadband internet connection to schools, professional development and learning for teachers, online curriculum tools and resources and online learning with parent access.

The aim by December 2011 is for there there to be a 1:1 computer to student ratio for secondary students with high speed network access and digital resources.

The government believes that this will bring beneficial change to teaching and learning in Secondary schools.

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