Nine To Noon for Thursday 2 May 2013 Nine To Noon

Does streaming help or hinder students?

9:08 AM.Does streaming in schools work to motivate and encourage children or is it ineffective and detrimental. Audio
Changes to the way students are assessed

9:20 AM.Where might things be heading when it comes to student education and assessment? Will streaming become less relevant over time as students pace of progress becomes more self determined. Audio
Utilising the knowledge and skills of returning migrants?

9:41 AM.24,000 New Zealanders return to the country every year after living overseas. But are we harnessing the skills they've gained off shore? Audio
UK Correspondent - Matthew Parris

9:52 AM.Coronation Street veteran arrested for alleged offences; Another MP and another bad radio interview; Local Government elections; EU looking to ban certain agrichemicals. Audio
Feature Guest - Amanda Knox

10:06 AM.American Amanda Knox was convicted with her former boyfriend of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy in 2009. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the… Read more Audio
Book Review - Snow White's Coffin

10:35 AM.Written by Kate Camp, published by Victoria University Press, reviewed by Harry Ricketts. Audio
Technology with Erika Pearson

11:12 AM.Tweeting during times of disaster, iTunes Turns 10, and the possibility of free recharging. Audio
Parenting with Joseph Driessen

11:30 AM.How to use and not use emotion when raising sons. Audio
TV with Lara Strongman

11:46 AM.Richard E. Grant's Hotel Secrets, Game of Thrones, and Sky's new nostalgia channel. Audio

09:05 Does streaming help or hinder students?

Professor Garry Hornby from the University of Canterbury's College of Education; Dr Karen Poutasi, chief executive of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority; and Mark Brown, director of Massey University's National Centre for Teaching and Learning and expert in distance learning.

09:30 Are we doing enough to utilise the knowledge and skills of returning migrants?

Tracey Lee has written a masters paper called Welcome Home: Harnessing the Brain Gain which argues that returning migrants come back with knowledge, innovation and experience but find New Zealand a closed shop, with networks difficult to break into.

09:45 UK correspondent Matthew Parris

10:05 Feature guest - Amanda Knox

American Amanda Knox was convicted with her former boyfriend of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy in 2009. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the murder conviction was overturned in October 2011. Now living back in the United States, Amanda Knox has written a memoir called Waiting to be Heard. Meanwhile, an Italian court has overturned the acquittals and ordered a fresh trial.

10:35 Book Review with Harry Ricketts

Snow White's Coffin by Kate Camp
Published by Victoria University Press

The Lifeguard by Ian Wedde
Published by Auckland University Press/HarperCollins

10:45 Reading: The Conductor by Sarah Quigley

Read by Peter Bland

The story of the writing and historic performance of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony during the siege of Leningrad.

11:05 New Technology with Erika Pearson

Tweeting during times of disaster, iTunes turns 10 and the possibility of free recharging.

Links:
What Twitter Needs - Wired
iTunes turn 10 - PCmag
Amazon's TV Pilots, Rated and Reviewed - PCmag
Plug It On The Window
Photovoltaic prototype could harvest the power of 2,000 suns

11:30 Parenting commentator Joseph Driessen

How to use and not use emotion when raising sons.

11:45 TV reviewer Sara Strongman reviews Richard E. Grant's Hotel Secrets, Game of Thrones, and Sky's new nostalgia channel.

11:45 TV review with Lara Strongman

Richard E. Grant's Hotel Secrets, Game of Thrones and and Sky's new nostalgia channel.

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10:06am
Great North: 'The Spring Tide'|
from their 2012 album "Halves"

10:45am
Nicole Reynolds: 'We Could Have Met'
from her 2008 album "Unordinary Mine"

11:30am
Hope Waits: 'Get Behind The Mule'
from her 2007 self-titled album

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