Remember hauling a backpack full of books up the hill from the train station every day after school ? How we would have loved a device that downloaded and stored all of the information we needed for our education.

A Melbourne school is doing just that. Melbourne's Brighton Grammar is testing the IPAD as part of an e-learning research program.

John Phillips, the school's community education director as said, "With one device we've replaced textbooks, we've replaced the student diary, we've replaced the need for a graphics calculator."

With the introduction of interactive whiteboards several years ago, and the quantity and quality of IT facilities available in schools nationwide, it's no surprise that this is being tested for students future schooling.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/ipad/students-ditch-the-books-in-favour-of-new-ipad-technology/story-fn5knrwy-1225873244678#ixzz0sxBpMlPs

It's been 40 years since the internet and my how it has changed.

We use it at home, work from our phones and laptops; but just how is Australia doing in the internet stakes.

How we size up

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:

1 - China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4% of their population)
2 – US (227,190,989, or 74.7%)
3 – Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8%)
4 – India (81,000,000, or 7.1%)
5 – Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4%)

Australia comes in at 25th, with 16,926,015 internet users.

But we zoom all the way up to 7th place if we measure what percentage of the population uses the internet – a whopping 80.6 per cent, according to IWS.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/features/how-big-is-the-internet/story-fn300p73-1225756365579

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Google Earth Pinpoints 500 new archaeology sites.

The discovery of the fossil remains of some of mankind's earliest ancestors was made possible by the use of data collected via Google Earth.

Professor Lee Berger, from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, discovered the new species, dubbed Australopithecus sediba, in the Cradle of Humankind National Park in South Africa.

The area has been much explored over the years, but Professor Berger began tagging sites with fossil remains on Google Earth in May 2008 and using the images to identify new cave systems.

Professor Berger was able to identify almost 500 new caves and potential fossil sites.

Up until that point there were only 130 known cave sites in the region and around 20 fossil deposits.

"Professor Berger has used Google Earth and its global coverage of high resolution satellite data to identify curious locations in South Africa, which have resulted in the discovery of important historical findings that affect all humans everywhere on our planet," said Michael Jones, chief technology advocate at Google.

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