Some of our most important features of 2020 and looking forward to 2021
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Welcome to the final edition of ESA News for 2020. This year ESA has been hard at work updating, improving and developing fantastic online resources to support educators. Read on to find out about some of our most important work of 2020, and how it relates to you as you look forward to 2021.
New and updated in 2020
myfuture has new career education resources for teachers
Are you thinking ahead and planning for 2021? Now is a good time to explore the recently updated myfuture website and consider some of the career resources that will best support your students.
Along with a fresh new look and improved navigation, myfuture retains all its existing tools and resources, including My career profile and the popular Career bullseyes. It also features:
- new content on the future of work, including a selection of 25 emerging occupations
- a new suite of infographics to help students visualise some of the many different pathways they can take from school to work.
Stay tuned for more exciting content coming in 2021.
Visit the link below to find these and many other resources to help support your students as they build career development awareness.
ELLA launches new apps for Year 1 and Year 2
Image: Helen Gray, Karara State School, Queensland
The second year of the three-year Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) F-2 schools trial is nearing completion. ESA has developed four new apps specifically for trialling with students in years 1 and 2. The Polyglots Go Camping is already proving to be very popular with Year 1 students. Set in a camping ground with tents, a campfire and games, it provides fun opportunities for children to revise greetings and to label family members (for example ‘grandmother’ and ’little brother’) in another language.
The Year 1 students at Karara State School ask and respond in French to questions related to possession or ownership, using tablet devices. They have been learning some first elements of French grammar, such as simple verb and gender forms, definite articles, pronouns and prepositions. The language from the apps is reinforced by practicing in small groups using hands-on materials.
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence lessons
This year the Digital Technologies Hub produced a range of artificial intelligence (AI) lessons for students from Foundation to Year 10. Lessons in AI provide rich real-world applications for students – engaging them with the Digital Technologies curriculum, drawing on ethical understandings and enabling critical, creative and systems thinking.
Resources that support students with autism
The Student Wellbeing Hub has launched new resources supporting teaching Relationships and Personal Development topics to students with autism. These resources are grouped into modules, and cover years 5–6, 7–8 and 9. Each module includes background information, teaching activities for use with students and links to additional specialised resources.
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School libraries: the heart of the school
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This year the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) continued delivering Connections, the quarterly school library journal, to schools both in print and online.
Connections helps keep you up to date with the latest in school library trends and information. It includes articles on how school libraries support student wellbeing, privacy, security and sustainability, and on robotics and AI in the classroom.
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