Tim Howarth and Christine Lambrianidis
Staughton College, Melton South, Victoria

In 2009 Stephen Seddon was Science Coordinator at Noble Park Secondary College, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. In 2010 he is Head of Junior School (Years 7-9) at the College. At the end of 2009 he was interviewed by Keith Redman, Editor of ANSN E-News. This Snapshot is based upon that interview and subsequent conversations.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• Professional Learning in the Pilbara
• 1:1 Laptop Learning Hub
• Cognitive Coaching SM: Training programs in Northern Territory and Victoria
• Dimensions of Learning Hubs in 2010
• Feedback from DoL Staff Development Days around Australia
• Act quickly to register for the 2010 Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub in Victoria
• An external program of interest: Share-a-Book
• A contact of possible interest for on-line computer training
• Some interesting reading

Welcome to the first ANSN E-News for 2010.

This Snapshot outlines the background of African students now in schools in Australia and discusses the need for teach

Hanan Harrison (from an interview with Keith Redman, Editor of ANSN E-News)

Throughout 2009, ANSN national networker Hanan Harrison has been working in partnership with Education Queensland International on the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)-funded project Integrating ICT Pedagogy in School Community. Hanan was contracted to develop, deliver and evaluate a national project targeting teachers and school leaders in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as an integrating teaching tool.

It is with great sadness that we relay from the Coalition of Essential Schools in the USA that their founder Theodore R. Sizer passed away on October 21, 2009.

Tina Doe, August 2009

To conclude its 3-day program, the Nudgee Dimensions of Learning (DoL) Advanced Hub held its Showcase day on Monday 27 July.

The following short reports of presentations during the day illustrate the breadth and depth of work that the participants undertook, and which they presented to their peers. Conceptualised and elaborated during the initial two days of this action learning Hub, the projects were individual or school team-based, and contextualised to the learning site and the relevant DoL priority/incentive.

Dr Julianne Lynch, a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, is a member of the Gender and Information Technology (GaIT) 1 national project research team.

In this ANSN Snapshot from Research, Dr Lynch refers to findings from the GaIT study, to draw our attention to:

• the declining student interest in studying Information Technology (IT) subjects;
• the persistent gender gap in enrolments in IT subjects at school and university; and
• issues related to school IT education that might contribute to the gender gap and to the more general decline in participation in this area of study.

Adria is a Year 5-6 teacher at Westbreen Primary School in Victoria.

Westbreen Primary School is in Glenroy, in the Northern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne. It is a small school, with around 250 students. There are twelve interactive whiteboards (IWBs) – one in every classroom, from Prep to Year 6 – and they are networked.

When I joined the ANSN IWB Hub at the start of 2008, I had little experience of using an IWB – not much more than having had a “play” with it, really.