Julia Gillard while in Korea met with students from Gyeseong Catholic Girls High School who are involved in the Australian-Korean ConneXion Project supported by SiMERR. The event was covered by local and national news. Links to some of these videos and articles follow.
Happy Christmas from everyone at the SiMERR National Centre. In honor of the occasion the SiMERR website has been given a new look. I hope you all like it. You can see the new look SiMERR website at http://www.une.edu.au/simerr.
Two education programs based at the University of New England were finalists in this year’s Northern Inland Innovation Awards.
The annual awards were presented at the end of October during a special event in Gunnedah organised by Regional Development Australia Northern Inland.
The two UNE finalists were in the “Research and Education” category. They were the University’s School of Rural Medicine, for its annual “whole body dissection surgical anatomy” course, and the team behind the QuickSmart numeracy and literacy intervention program for school students.
An innovative project that is enabling school students in Australia and South Korea to visit each other’s classrooms via the Internet was strengthened by the signing of new international agreements at the University of New England last week.
The day (Thursday 8 September) began with a videoconferencing link between students at Armidale’s Ben Venue Public School and their counterparts at Cheongsol Primary School in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Representatives of the NSW Department of Education and Communities, UNE, and two leading IT companies visited Ben Venue School to observe the Australian end of the live link.
Mathematics students from secondary schools throughout northern NSW and from as far south-west as Dubbo got together at the University of New England on Friday to share their enthusiasm for maths in a day of stimulating competition.
More than 200 students from 32 schools, accompanied by teachers and parents, travelled to UNE to take part in the University’s annual Year 8 Mathematics Day, which is now in its 17th year. Working in 55 teams of four, the students enjoyed an experience of cooperative problem solving and applying mathematics to real-life scenarios.
Educators from across Australia met at the University of New England late last month to share their experiences in the use of QuickSmart, an intervention program that helps school students improve their basic skills in mathematics.
“QuickSmart is sensational,” said Rob Presswell, Principal of Driver Primary School in Palmerston, Northern Territory. “It’s achieved outstanding outcomes.”
The QuickSmart program, developed by Professor John Pegg and Associate Professor Lorraine Graham at the UNE-based National Centre of Science, ICT and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR National Centre), has been running at Driver Primary School for the past six years.
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