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Media Access Australia reviews the Draft National Curriculum

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Media Access Australia’s (MAA) education team has completed a review of the Draft National Curriculum, and Education Manager Anne McGrath recently spoke with Vision Australia Radio about the lack of accessibility considerations for students with sensory impairments.

The Federal Government’s Draft National Curriculum was released last month for public viewing and feedback, and will remain open until 23 May. The draft is comprehensive, covering the subjects of English, History, Maths and Science, and is available online.

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Ai-Media announces unique new service for deaf students

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Deafness services innovator Ai-Media today launched ‘Ai-Live’, a world-first service that provides live captioning of classes to deaf and hearing impaired students in mainstream schools, at the Sixth National Deafness Summit in Sydney. The service, combined with the technologies used in Media Access Australia’s Classroom Access Project pilot, means that deaf students in Australian schools could soon experience full access in mainstream Australian schools.

The Hon Bill Shorten MP, Parliamentary Secretary of Disabilities and Children’s Services, attended the launch, and delivered the keynote address of the Summit on inclusion of people with a disability, where he empathised “with the frustration of parents [of children with disabilities] who know their kids could learn so much more with extra resources”.

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Accessibility and usability concerns voiced over ICT in National Curriculum

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The question of whether to embed ICT (Information and Communication Technology) across all subjects in the National Curriculum, or include it as a separate subject, was put to members of the Leadership Forum focusing on the National Curriculum and ICT over the Easter school holidays. It was held as part of the Australian Council for Computers in Education ‘Digital Diversity’ Conference in Melbourne from 6-10 April 2010.

Representatives included ICT professionals, policy makers, Department of Education and other sector representatives and ACARA (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority) representative Lynn Redley. MAA’s Education team was also present. Focus groups addressed questions of readability, implementation potential, teacher professional development and the worth of implementation across all curriculums.

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