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Welcome OPALS

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On Monday, 22 June, Year 4 and 5 students from local primary schools will spend the day at Oxley College engaged in extension and enrichment activities.  We call this OPALS - Oxley Primary Achievers Learning Summit.

Our Year Ten students will serve as learning facilitators and tutors.

Please take a look around the OPALS Web site and explore the activities.

Half-yearly Exam Timetables

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Download the exam schedules

Week 8A

Weeks 9 & 10

or download the whole timetable as a spreadsheet

Twouble with Twitters

What do you think about Twitter? Do you or friends twitter?

Is it something that you’d like to do?

What do you think the Twitter craze says about us as human beings?

CALL09 2020 Vision

One set of Year 9 students will focus their sights on what’s going on in the world right now! The CALL09 cross curriculum enrichment challenges students to learn about four main issues that confront us today and will influence their adult lives.


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Vote for James

Old Oxleyan James Hill is in the running for a position with Queensland Tourism.

Check out his great video and VOTE FOR HIM!

Poetry Reading

Here’s “Amazing Story,” a poem by Stephen Dobyns. It might be good listening practice for English classes or something to ponder for RE classes - or for those who just like to ponder…

 

What is this video saying?

note: when the video is finished playing YouTube displays a random selection of other videos. This feature has been disabled.

Why do you say that? Be specific and creative.
Think “laterally.”
Are these people a metaphor? If so, for whom?

Personal Learning

The following video has created a lot of excitement on the Web.  In it, university students from the US tell the truth about how they use technology.

A Vision of Students Today (YouTube Link)

Maybe the era of big lecture rooms is over?  Many people see a new “personal” way of learning as better. Look through the links below.  In each, people either focus on personal learning or how technology  allows students to take the “middleman” out of their learning. Of course the “middleman” means “classroom teachers.”

Please answer the following question:

How should Oxley College respond to technology’s ability
to promote each individual’s personal learning?

As technology puts the potential for learning in every student’s hands, how can schools still be sure students learn “what’s important.”  In answering the question, you might want to describe “what’s important.”

Big Brother or Big Mother - You Choose

What will they think of next…

Technologies seem to be advancing daily.  Below are links to information and videos that show how various groups make use of your “digital trail” or “electronic breadcrumbs.”

So much can be learned about what students do, where they go, what they buy and what interests them, how should schools use this power?

Given that everyone else seems to use your “digital trail,”
how should Oxley College use your  online “breadcrumbs” to help you?

Describe what you think would be good.  Your answer must include the interests of the following groups:

  • Your parents
  • The School
  • Yourself
  • Your country

It might help to consider your answer on a continuum that goes from:

complete freedom ————> ————-> to complete surveillance

The New WWW

If you have broadband access to your phone, you can get “The New WWW” - “Whatever you want, Whenever and Wherever.”  Isn’t that great!

Or it it….?

What happens when World of WarCraft become World of WarCrack?  Or people play games to death and aren’t good enough to fight.

Do you know people addicted to Facebook, Bebo or MySpace?

What Is Facebook Addiction?

Is Virtual Reality Really What we Want?

Your job is to answer this question:

How should Oxley College care for its students in a world where technology
lets them access “Whatever they want, Whenever and Wherever?”

The College is interested in students’ physical, intellectual and spiritual development.  What should we be doing?