Since we’ve been spending more time at home, we have taken on new interests, hobbies, and for some people, new pets. Many people have chosen backyard chickens as their new feathered friends and why not, as they come with amazing benefits including: Providing free fresh, nutritious...
National Science Week: August 15 to 23. Australia’s biggest science festival is splashing into real schools, school-at-home, and virtual classrooms. With this year’s activities migrating online, stories have local talent and national reach: ▪ Make a melon go boom—Brisbane ▪ Gamers: can you power up enough molecules to fire...
Australian Council on Children and the Media's child-development based movie reviews have now been running for 18 years. That’s quite an achievement, and one that we are very proud of writes Barbara Biggins (CEO) In 2002, encouraged by our patron Steve Biddulph, ACCM set up a...
Have you wondered why some young kids can watch the unwrapping of a box on YouTube for the thrill of what inside? It's all about sneaky advertising! Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on...
Making the most of educational videos in the classroom. Matthew Fyfield and Michael Henderson look at ways teachers can make learning by Video more engaging for students. Video is now embedded in education at all levels. In both secondary and tertiary contexts, educators are heavily relying...
Disgust may be an impediment to many of us adopting more sustainable lifestyles, from considering alternative foods to drinking recycled water, reports Nathan S Consedine In wealthy societies we’ve become increasingly picky about what we eat. The “wrong” fruits and vegetables, the “wrong” animal parts, and...
Tanya Notley and Michael Dezuanni report their recent findings from their new research into how young Australians consume and think about news media. Following a summer of bushfires and during the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have told us they consume news regularly. But they also say...
Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith and Sophie Yates report their survey results on the experiences of students with disabilities and their families, when schools across Australia had mostly closed. Only 22% of family members and carers of students with a disability agreed they had received adequate educational...
The hugely successful “Keep It Real Online” video aimed at getting New Zealand parents to talk to their children about pornography has gone viral and been praised around the world. But my 16-year-old son, says researcher Tracy Clelland, asked an interesting question when he looked...
As many Victorians go into the second period of lockdown with a return to remote learning for students from prep to Year 10, Clair Turner reports that working parents are bracing for another period where conflicting paid-work and care-work demands must somehow be managed. Isolation and...
