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NAPLAN 2016 will be conducted for Year 3, Year 5, Year 7 and Year 9
students on Tuesday 10 May, Wednesday 11 May and Thursday 12 May 2016.
The sequence and time allocation for the tests is expected to be the
same as in 2015:
10 May Language Conventions and Writing
11 May Reading
12 May Numeracy (with Years 7 and 9 completing a non-calculator and a calculator-allowed test).
Information about the schedule of testing and times allocated can be found on the ACARA website
Piracy websites will soon be blocked in Australia.
Last week I launched a book called Copyfight. It's about what some of us call the "copyright wars" … and this week the Senate sent a shot across the bow
by passing new laws to help block copyright infringing overseas
websites. You might call it serendipity, I'd say it's digital
inevitability.
We are in vulnerable times as we are in an
environment governed increasingly by technology romance on the one hand
and technology determinism on the other. These views abound around the
internet from selfish ill-informed users, to many of the commercial
proponents of carriage and search. Too often these groups' notions of so
called rights assume a 'licence to steal' and myriad other mangled
notions of law and its application.
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Regrettably, precious little reasoned response has been in evidence from our national parliament until relatively recently.
The
welcome passing of this legislation is a response to obscene levels of
online theft which has gone unhindered for way, way too long. It is
nothing more or less than a social cancer ripping at the vitals of
intellectual property and the creativity at its core.
Digital change processes command our attention and provide
the central themes to the experience of what I would term "the new
normal" in society today - one which demands reimagined responses.
As
is pointed out by numerous contemporary commentators the notion of
periods of stability and static movement followed by modest incremental
change or bursts of invention have gone. The evidence of this political,
business and consumer revolution is everywhere.
We see
it in the changing consumption and interaction habits, driven by digital
technology, around us. Think of how you graze the world and buy things
now compared with your parents. Imagine what will happen with cars, real
estate, retail, health, finance or insurance before we even enter into
discussions of entertainment, culture, education or politics. Each will,
in 15 years' time, have little resemblance with today.
And
so the challenge to intellectual property has never been more
pronounced and its vulnerability to hostile action from a variety of
consumer, commercial and yes, political forces, has never been more
acute.
Oddly, part of the challenge in copyright is to
get decision makers to ask the right questions, and at the Copyright
Agency we would suggest that questions such as "How do you reduce the
business costs of great successful enterprises like Google, Apple,
Microsoft, Yahoo or Amazon?" is not the right question.
While
it is easy for us to feel outrage and to be in many ways justifiably
distressed, rights holders carry a responsibility for not having managed
the necessary defences persuasively to adapt to the digital world,
adopting new methods of delivery with appropriate changes in law,
access, behaviour and enforcement so as to ensure sustainable outcomes.
Piracy
is a word I detest and believe should be expunged from the copyright
vocabulary. It is way too rich with all its imagery associated with
political persecution, the Jolly Roger, parrots on shoulders and hook
hand devices and phrases like "C'mon me hearties " we should call it out
over and over as theft. And, in the unique instance of intellectual
property, theft is rarely, if ever, properly punished.
I'm
not talking about punishing some parent for putting a video of their
child singing a pop song on YouTube. This is about serious theft, such
as the well-publicised global downloads of one of the most popular shows
in history, Game of Thrones.
Why do the
websites facilitating this behaviour get to make money from it but the
creators lose money? Why are so many people comfortable justifying
their theft and blaming others for their poor behaviour. Copyright
vests in the creator inalienable rights to manage and control their own
work – something many of us take for granted but which we know is all
too susceptible to bad behaviours and processes in today's increasingly
narcissistic world where self-defence on the altar of personal indignant
assertion all too often runs riot throughout society.
As the book Copyfight explores
so comprehensively, we must ensure that copyright law is constantly
refreshed and amended so as to protect the work of our creators,
securing the rights to protect, promote and derive revenue from the hard
effort that goes into their original work so central to society and its
health.
Training for the marking of the NAPLAN 2015 Writing Test for Years 3,
5, 7 and 9 has been successfully completed, and marking of the tests is
now well underway.
In 2015, students were again asked to complete a persuasive writing
task. As in 2014, the genre for the Writing Test was not made known to
students, teachers or markers prior to the test. In addition, for the
first time since the introduction of NAPLAN in 2008, the writing topic
for Years 3 and 5 was different to that for Years 7 and 9. This decision
was taken to ensure continued engagement and fairness for all students. The criteria used to mark the Writing Tests are the same for all year
levels and were developed and agreed to at a national level.