by Neil Cameron | May 10, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
Reading is a miracle. What you are doing right now is seriously wonderful. How can we scan the single letters so quickly, making words, sentences and paragraphs, and, in an instant, sew them together into something that opens up the world? Our scientists are still...
by Craig Dow Sainter | May 9, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
The Australian Curriculum measures student literacy as the development of knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning, communicating and participating effectively in society. It would be reasonable to accept that we are...
by Rachel Edwards | May 9, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
I learnt to read soon after I learnt to walk. My mum was a teacher and she took the time to sit with me and gently ease me into a world of books and reading. This forged me personally and professionally. When those around me did not know answers, books did. In primary...
by Heather Rose | May 9, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
In my role as a children’s author, I have had the privilege of visiting a number of Tasmanian schools. I am always powerfully impressed by the quality of the teachers inspiring the young people in their charge. I am also dismayed at the stories I find in those...
by Kim Backhouse | May 9, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
I recently went to the cinema to see a blockbuster animation Early Man, in which one of the main characters tells a tribe of cave people (who are generally down on life at this point in the storyline), ‘If we work together, we might just get this done.’ This is akin...
by Jordan Martin | May 9, 2018 | Communicating the Heart of Literacy
Is genuinely open-ended dialogue actually part of human nature? On the politically-fraught question of nature and nurture there are two opposed answers, the extreme statements of which are both obviously wrong. On the one (left?) hand, the human mind is a universal...
