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News about Oberon's Schools - Page 1
There are stories about the local schools in the archives.
Photos of children on the Internet It's a tragedy of our times that anything can be abused by perverts. The latest is that AI systems are being used to exploit photos of children by removing clothing or putting other heads on bodies. The world's largest pornography site, PornHub, recently banned one of their advertisers who was paying a million dollars a year to advertise AI-generated child porn. That company is Australian. Elon Musk is threatening to sue a US state because it has banned Musk's Grok AI for the ease with which it can be used to produce images of naked children. Musk claims this is an infringement of free speech, a statement that renders sane people speechless. Legitimate search engines are blocked from indexing any images on this site but it is almost impossible to prevent web site content from being scavenged by AI robots and the only alternative is to not publish photos, so over the next few weeks I will be going through all the sports and school reports on the site and removing any photo in which kids can be identified. (This tiny and obscure site is continually trawled by AI bots, although all except ChatGPT try to remain anonymous. The papers published by Nine Entertainment are currently being hit 30,000,000 times a month by AI content thieves. It is work for several people just to try to keep up with the blocking.) The two articles below from The Conversation address the danger of putting your kids' photos online. |  |
 | Whole lotta learning going on In the chilly hours and minutes of an Oberon day, the schools keep on filling students' heads with facts and stories. |
I like schoolin' and I'm not foolin' The educating (and sporting) keeps going on at the schools around Oberon. |  |
 | School life gradually returns It's a slow start to the term but there are things going on behind the curtain. |
School Daze Schools were still closed for the holidays last week, but a book review I wrote reminded me of this article I wrote some time ago for Australasian Science magazine about a perennial and dangerous teaching practice which keeps arriving uninvited into schools. |  |
 | Left Behind: Transitioning to Work Getting Tougher Research carried out for the Smith Family points to a disappointing employment future for students who leave high school before Year 12. This is possibly a bigger problem for students in regional areas who might have an even narrower range of job possibilities than students living in more highly populated cities. |
School's out! So sang Alice. The original song said "School's out for summer" but Oberon doesn't feel like summer right now, so we will have to make allowances. The last week of term was still filled with activities, with no winding down for the schools around the town. |  |
 | Chalkdust Torture Well, the title of that song is a bit out of date these days because teachers no longer use chalk on smartboards and don't torture pupils with canes and straps. Life is sometimes better than it was "in the good old days", and this week at Oberon's schools was no exception. |
Learning things you never knew before And that's what school is for, and Oberon's schools are really good at doing the job. It's not just the Three Rs any more because now there's a lot more to learn. |  |
 | What Did You Learn in School Today? Pete Seeger asked this question in 1964 and it's just as relevant today. And when we look around Oberon's schools the answer has to be "Lots of things". |
