At the heart of accusations of a crowded curriculum are concerns key areas such as literacy and numeracy will be compromised by an insidious creep towards content such as gender issues.
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Marilyn Campbell received funding from the Federal government to write A review of research on the impact of mobile phones in schools on student wellbeing and learning outcomes.
Amanda Third leads collaborative research projects that are currently funded by a wide variety of organisations across the corporate, not-for-profit and government sectors, including Google Australia, the Office of the eSafety Commissioner, UNICEF, Lego Foundation, 5Rights Foundation, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Mission Australia, City of Liverpool Council, Mammalian Reflex Foundation, Lancet/Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures. She is an expert member of the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Think Tank on Child Online Protection; Global Kids Online Advisory; Google Children and Families Advisory; Facebook Pacific Online Safety Regional Advisory; UNICEF Australia s Child Rights Task Force; the Australian Federal Government’s eSafety Adv