Questions for discussionTax Change

1. What type of tax does the BtN story explain?2. What sort of things does income tax pay for?3. When was nation-wide income tax first introduced?4. Why was it introduced?5. How did income tax in Australia change in the 1940s?6. A lot of income tax in the 1940s was used to pay for _________________.7. What changes to income tax does the Prime Minister want to make?8. Why do some people like the idea of the states having more control of income taxes?9. Why are some people against the idea?10. What did the state and territory governments decide?

Port Arthur Anniversary1. Hold a class discussion about the BtN Port Arthur Anniversary story. What were the main

points of the discussion?2. Where is Port Arthur? Locate using Google Maps.3. Briefly explain what happened at Port Arthur in 1996.4. Who was the Prime Minister of Australia at the time?5. What question about gun control did the events at Port Arthur raise?6. What was gun ownership like in Australia before the events at Port Arthur?7. After the Port Arthur massacre, the government brought in a tough firearms program. What

were the main points of the program?8. What impact did the new gun laws have?9. The success of Australia’s gun laws has been used as an example in other parts of the

world. True or false?10. How did this story make you feel?

Technology Challenge1. Briefly summarise the Technology Challenge story.2. What percentage of students at the school use technology for more than 4 hours every

day?3. How long was the technology challenge?4. Explain what the challenge was for the kids in each group.5. Before starting the challenge, how did the kids in the `no technology’ group feel?6. How did the students feel after the challenge?7. How would you feel about going without technology for 3 days? Explain your answer.8. About how much time each day do you use technology? 9. What was surprising about this story?10. What changes to your own technology use would you make after watching this story?

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Head to the BtN website and complete the short technology survey. We’ll bring you the results from this nationwide survey next term.

Refugee Sport1. What was the main point of the Refugee Sport story?2. Where do the kids in the BtN story live?3. Which team is Alex Scott the captain of?4. Which charity is involved in the soccer program?5. Why was the program set up?6. About how many people have been forced to leave their homes to escape fighting in Iraq?

a. 1.1 millionb. 2.2 millionc. 3.3 million

7. What proportion of people forced to leave their home are kids?8. What valuable skills does the soccer program give the kids in the refugee camp?9. What impact has the soccer program had on Yasmine’s life?10. What do you understand more clearly since watching the BtN story?

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Test your knowledge! Do the BtN End of Term Quiz

Teacher Resource

Technology Challenge

1. Briefly summarise the Technology Challenge story.2. What percentage of students at the school use technology for

more than 4 hours every day?3. How long was the technology challenge?4. Explain what the challenge was for the kids in each group.5. Before starting the challenge, how did the kids in the `no

technology’ group feel?6. How did the students feel after the challenge?7. How would you feel about going without technology for 3 days?

Explain your answer.8. About how much time each day do you use technology? 9. What was surprising about this story?10. What changes to your own technology use would you make

after watching this story?

DiscussionIn small groups (2 or 3 students) respond to the following questions. Brainstorm ideas as a group recording your responses on a large piece of paper. Share your ideas with the class.

What are the different types of technology you use at school and outside of school? (E.g. laptop, tablets, computers, television, webcam and mobile phones).

What activities do you do that involve using technology? (E.g. research online for school projects, send emails, online gaming, instant messaging, social media, webcam chatting, searching online for fun, sending pics, downloading apps, listening to music).

As a class, respond to the following questions. How much screen time do you have on a daily basis? Do you think you have a ‘screen addiction’? Why or

why not? Why is technology important to you? Explain.

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Students will investigate and analyse their technology use. Students will examine how excessive technology use can impact on their health and wellbeing.

Health and Physical Education – Year 3-4Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036)

Health and Physical Education – Year 5-6Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)

Health and Physical Education – Year 7-8Evaluate health information and communicate their own and others’ health concerns (ACPPS076)

Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others’ health and wellbeing (ACPPS074)

Digital Technologies – Year 5-6Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022)

Digital Technologies – Year 7- 8Plan and manage projects that create and communicate ideas and information collaboratively online, taking safety and social contexts into account (ACTDIP032)

Estimate – How much time do you spend using technology?In a table record all the activities you do that involve using technology and then estimate the amount of time you spend doing each activity.

Activity Estimate the amount time you spend doing this activity (per day)

e.g. send emails

Total Hours

Audit – Find out how much time you actually spend using technologyKeep a diary to document the amount of time you spend using technology both at school and outside of school. You can be flexible with the duration of this challenge (3-5 days will give you a good average). Include totals for your daily usage and totals for time spent at school compared to outside of school. Plot your results on a bar graph. Use Pikto chart to create an infographic analysing your daily screen time.

Day ActivityTime spent doing this

activity at SCHOOL

Time spent doing this activity

OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

Monday e.g. send emails 1 hour 0.5 hours

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Total hours: Total hours:

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Analyse your resultsAnalyse your results and respond to the following:

What does your graph tell you about your technology usage?

Compare the amount of time you use technology to someone else in the class.

What surprised you about the results?

Technology ChallengeHow long can you last without technology? Or how would unlimited screen time make you feel?

Divide the class into three groups (pick names out of a hat so it is random). Each group will be assigned a different challenge (see below). The challenge will be conducted at home over the weekend.

Group 1 Challenge

Group 2Challenge

Group 3 Challenge

You can use as much technology as you like over one day.

You can use up to 2 hours of technology over one day.

You are not allowed to use any technology at all over one day (no personal tablets/devices or TV).

Before starting this challenge, students will write a letter to their parents/guardians explaining the challenge, what group they are in and what is required of them during the challenge. As a class, students will discuss how they feel about being part of the challenge, how difficult they think the challenge will be and what activities they will do during the challenge.

During the challenge, students will keep a personal diary to document the activities they do during the challenge and to write about how they feel during the challenge.

After this challenge, students will complete the following self assessment.

Self Assessment

Parts of the activity:I liked and disliked...I found challenging...I found surprising...

What did this challenge help you understand?

Do you think you will change the amount of time you spend using technology? Why or why not?

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As part of BtN’s Technology Challenge story, Behind the News will ask kids to go online and answer a few simple questions about their technology use.

So keep an eye out on the BtN website on Tuesday morning, 5th April 2016, for the survey launch. We will bring you all the results from this nationwide survey next term.

CBBC Newsround – Is tech taking over? http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35707765

Behind the News – Screen Addictionhttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3958278.htm

ABC News – Screen addiction: Health experts say excessive amounts of time spent on phones, tablets can affect childhood developmenthttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-27/screen-addiction-experts-raise-concerns/5221278

ABC News – Psychologists scramble to keep up with growing social media addictionhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-03/psychologists-scramble-to-keep-up-with-social-media-addiction/7293862

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Encourage your students to be active and informed citizens by watching our 10 minute news program each day. Go to the BtN homepage and

click on the 3News link.

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for an update on upcoming BtN stories and other useful and relevant teacher information. Visit the BtN website and go to the Teachers page to join up.

Teacher Resource

End of Term Review

Best of BtNChoose your five favourite stories from BtN this year so far [link to stories here]. To ensure there are a variety of stories choose one from each of the following categories:

Global issue Environment Animal Rookie reporter Other

Once you have decided on the five stories that will make up your rundown, respond to the following questions:

Why did you choose the stories? Describe the main issue/message in each story. Why do you think kids would be interested in these stories? Write an online poll question and a quiz question for two of the

stories you chose. Are there any updates on the stories? Describe using your own

words. What topics or issues would you like to see reported on BtN this

year? Write a persuasive piece of writing arguing why it should be included on the show.

Feature storyStudents will write a feature story about someone interesting in their community. It could be a friend, family member, school teacher, or business person who’s doing something great and/or helping others in some way. You could also encourage students to research an issue that affects their local community.

Before starting this activity, watch these BtN feature stories from Term1, 2016. Choose your favourite feature story and then respond to the following questions:

What is the story about? Why did you choose this story? Why do you think BtN chose to feature this person’s story?

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Students will develop an understanding of the structure and features of a news report.

English – Year 6 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches (ACELY1708)

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text (ACELY1711)

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717)

English – Year 7Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728)

Media Arts – Year 5-6Plan, produce and present media artworks for specific audiences and purposes using responsible media practice (ACAMAM064)

Get your class involved in BtN’s Ask A Reporter!

What words would you use to describe this story? Describe the main issue/message in the story. What makes this story interesting? Write a message of support on the BtN story page.

Kare KitsAfter watching her aunt fight cancer, Rookie Reporter Madeline decided she wanted to do something to help kids in a similar situation so she came up with Kare Kits 4 Kids, bags filled with special gifts for young people going through chemotherapy. Click here for the full story.

Young RacerHe might be years off getting his car licence but 13-year old Ardie is already a natural behind the wheel. He's been racing since he was only a few years old and now that he's 13 he's ready for his biggest event yet the Australian Junior Speedway Championships. How'd he do? Click here for the full story.

Kidney DayLater this week is World Kidney Day. It's all about raising awareness about the vital work our kidneys do and what can go wrong with them. We've asked 8-year old Harrison to report on the subject because he knows more about kidneys than the average kid. He was given one by his dad and it's changed his life. Click here for the full story.

Write your feature story1. Choose someone in your community that you want to write a feature report on. 2. Interview the person – check out these interviewing tips3. Write your feature story – find out what makes a good feature story here. Celebrate the persons’

strengths in your writing. Share your story with the class.

Submit your storySo you've gone out and done some reporting!? We'd love to hear from you, just visit the ROOKIE REPORTER page on the BtN website and click on the Submit Report button. Check out some of our rookie reporter stories from kids around Australia and the world for inspiration!

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Participate in BtN’s Ask A Reporter on Fridays at 12:30 (AEST)

What is Ask A Reporter?

Go to BtN’s Ask A Reporter page and click on the WHAT IS AAR? button to see a video of Nathan Bazley explaining how it works and how your class can get involved.

How to participate

1. Follow @BehindtheNews and watch for our tweet on Friday at 12:30 (AEDT) with the broadcast link. 

2. Click on the link using a smartboard to allow the whole class to watch. You can also use laptops and tablets if you have them.

3. Tweet questions using #AskaReporter from recognised school/class twitter accounts. Check out some questions that students asked this week.

Behind the News – Rookie Reporterhttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/rookie.htm

Behind the News – Ask a Reporterhttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/aar.htm

ABC Splash – Interviewing Tipshttp://splash.abc.net.au/res/mtn/sr/w3/TSS-3.2.pdf

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BtN: Episode 09 Transcript 05/04/16

Coming up on Behind the News:

Find out what this king and this PM have in common when it comes to taxes.

Meet the English Premier League captain that put on a kids soccer camp in Iraq.

And how would you survive without any technology? These kids took the challenge. We reveal how they went.

Hi my name is Nathan and thanks for joining me for BtN. All that and more coming up soon.

The Wire

But first the headlines.

Here's the biggest stuff from this week.

More than 11 million emails, records and other private documents have gone public in the world's biggest data leak. They reveal financial secrets of some of the world's most rich and famous including sports stars, movie stars and even world leaders. The documents are linked to a secretive law firm and show that it may've been helping its clients hide money to avoid paying taxes. Authorities around the world including here in Australia are busy investigating to see if anything illegal has been going on.

The Australian government's released the last kids being held in detention centres on mainland Australia. On Friday a 17 year old, a toddler and a baby were released from detention in Darwin. Making it the first time in ten years that no kids have been locked up in detention centres in our country. Although there are still 50 kids being held on the tiny pacific island of Nauru.

Aussie farmers will now have to follow certain rules if they want to label their eggs as free range. They'll be allowed to keep a maximum of 10 thousand hens per hectare.

They'll have to give the chooks good access to the outdoors and display on cartons how much space their chickens have to roam in. The new rules are meant to help chooks live happier lives and help customers know more about the eggs they're buying.

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But the RSPCA says the rules still aren't right because free range farmers are still allowed too many hens per hectare.

And finally researchers in Sweden are trying to work out if cats have accents! They're doing a big study of the noises cats make around their owners to see if cats from different places meow slightly differently.

“Meow”

Sound pretty much the same to me.

Taxing Times

Reporter: Carl Smith

INTRO: Okay now to our top story. And last week all of the premiers and chief ministers of Australia along with the PM got together for the Council of Australian Governments meeting, or COAG. The PM went into it trying to get all of them to agree to one big change to how Aussies are taxed. Here's what happened.

LORD: My King! My moat is infested with crocodiles and I need a bridge to get across. But I have no money!

KING: Well Lord Winterbottom, I'm not made of money. You’ll just have to raise it from the people!

CARL SMITH, REPORTER: Throughout history, rulers have used taxes to pay for the things their people need.

KING: Peasants! Come in! I need 5 sheckles from both of you for a new bridge for you to use.

But it hasn't always been fair.

RICH SERVANT: Yes of course my liege.

POOR SERVANT: Hang on me lord, 5 sheckles. I only get paid that amount a month! Why should I pay the same amount as her?

KING: Hmmm, okay. How about you pay more, because you earn more, and you pay less. Okay?

BOTH SERVANTS: Okay!

So that's why income tax was invented!

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KING: To the bridge maker!

Here in Australia we have an income tax that works in pretty much the same way, and it's a very big important tax that helps pay for lots of things our country needs.

Last financial year alone it raked in a massive 257 billion dollars!

The first nation-wide income tax was actually brought in way back in 1915 to help fund World War 1. Those horses, ships and planes cost a lot so the government made everyone chip in! But state governments were also collecting their own income taxes then too, which made things a bit confusing.

Then in 1939 the Second World War came around. To make things simpler, the State and Federal governments decided to change how income tax was collected, so that all of that money went directly to the Federal government instead!

It used a lot of it to pay for the war and also passed some of the money onto the states so they could pay for the things they needed. And that's roughly how income tax still works here today.

But lately some premiers and chief ministers say they aren't getting enough money from the federal government to cover costs in areas like health and education. So the Government suggested a big change.

LORD: My liege I need money for a new bridge! The other one burnt down!

KING: Well I'm a king! Can't you see I've have kingly things to do!? How about you collect some of the income tax from the peasants and then pay for your own bridges!

LORD: Well, how much should I charge?

KING: That’s up to you now!

LORD: Yes my liege.

That's more or less what the Prime Minister wanted to do - give some control of income taxes to the state and territory governments. His reason was that it might also encourage the states and territories to spend the money more wisely.

Some people liked the idea because it would give states the ability to raise the tax to help fund big projects or lower it to make it cheaper for people living there! But others weren't fans because they feared it could lead to people paying different amounts of tax depending on where they live. So people might leave their homes to pay less.

In the end the State and Territory governments just couldn't agree. So income tax will stay just how it is for now. So what does that all mean for us? Well, as they always used to say.

KING: My good lord, no matter how we do it, we will always have to pay taxes.

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Quiz

Okay so that's everything you need to know about income tax even though you don't have to pay it yet. But did you know there's a tax you already pay? Let's see if you know what it's called.

What is the name of the tax put on most products and services?

PST

EST

or GST

The answer: GST. That stands for the Goods and Services Tax.

Port Arthur Anniversary

Reporter: Carl Smith

INTRO: Okay during the school holidays the nation will remember a very painful anniversary. 20 years ago on the 28th of April, the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur was the scene of a horrible attack. Here's a look at what happened and how that one event changed the nation.

JOHN HOWARD, PM: This is an event that has shaken the core of this country, and in no other way individual crime has done in my lifetime.

CARL SMITH, REPORTER: April 28th, 1996. All Australians watched on as the small community of Port Arthur became headline news.

NEWS REPORT: The nightmare unfolded around half past 2 this afternoon.

The Tasmanian town was a popular tourist destination. But on that day it became the site of one of Australia's worst killing sprees. 28-year old Martin Bryant murdered 35 people and injured 23 more. It was - and still is - one of the deadliest shootings by a single person in the whole world.

After being caught Bryant was sentenced to a massive 35 life sentences in prison and more than 1000 years without parole. So he will never, ever be let out.

JOHNHOWARD, Former PM: It really rocked the nation in an incredible way, it affected me.

The tragedy left many Australians shocked, but many also asked the question: why was Martin Bryant legally allowed to own a bunch of powerful, deadly guns?

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Before 1996, just 20 years ago, owning a gun in Australia wasn't such a strange thing.

REPORTER: In fact, up until the 1980s it was actually pretty common for Aussies to own guns. There were around 3 million in the country, and walking down an average shopping street like this you'd often come across a gun shop, where in some cases even kids could buy a weapon.

ANTI-GUN ADVERTISEMENT: Wow, it’s real.

Throughout the 80s many states and territories were starting to talk about new, stricter laws for gun ownership but things were moving slowly.

The Port Arthur Massacre became a turning point, because the attack showed just how dangerous guns can be in the wrong hands. So the government brought in a tough new firearms licensing program, meaning anyone who wanted to own a gun had to be screened and checked first.

It also banned most people from owning high powered weapons including automatic guns and shotguns. On top of all that the government offered to buy back weapons that people couldn't own anymore and destroy them.

JOHN HOWARD, FORMER PM: It is an historic moment in a long debate.

The result was incredible. More than 1 million guns were bought back from the public at a cost of over 350 million dollars! And gun-related deaths soon started falling. In fact between 1996 and 2014 the number more than halved, despite the population continuing to grow!

The success of these tough gun laws has been used as an example in other parts of the world too.

JON STEWART, DAILY SHOW: While our United States Senate was unable to pass even the most basic gun control measures, Australia has had a successful gun control scheme for two decades

But despite that success, it's worth remembering that it came at a price - the Port Arthur attacks. And 20 years on, many still say that cost was too great.

Technology Challenge

Reporter: Ricky, Newsround

INTRO: Now how much technology is too much technology? Studies show most kids now spend around 6 hours a day in front of a screen. But what would happen if you were asked to go without it? That's what happened in the UK recently in a special experiment by kids news show Newsround. Their reporter Ricky has the story.

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GIRL: All my life I've either had a TV or a tablet by my side.

BOY: If I didn't use tech anymore I feel like I'd just sit in the corner and cry and wouldn’t know what to do with myself.

GIRL 2: If I was not allowed to use tech anymore I'd be lifeless.

BOY 2: I'm addicted.

RICKY: I've come to this school in Wolverhampton to find out how much time you spend using technology every day outside of school. Each corner of this playground has a time attached to it. This lot are going to run to the corner which they think they spend looking at screens every day.

RICKY: Over 70 per cent of these year 7 pupils spend over 4 hours a day using their tech.

RICKY: These guys love using all their different gadgets, so what would happen if we took that tech away from them? Well, there's only one way to find out. We're going to split this class into three different groups today. Now the first group is going to be able to use technology whenever you want over the next three days. The second group will only be allowed to use technology for two hours a day over the next three days. Two hours. The final group won't be able to use any technology whatsoever for the next three days..

RICKY: It's only three days.

CERYS: Three days is like a year.

RICKY: OK, let's start. First one's up now. Shakiah, how would you feel if you couldn't use any tech whatsoever?

SHAKIAH: Be boring.

RICKY: You don't think you could do it? Well, let's find out what group you're in. So for 3 days what do you think you'll do instead?

SHAKIAH: I don't know, hide in my room or something.

RICKY: Think about the positives maybe you could go out and play.

SHAKIAH: No.

RICKY: The thought of no tech for three days is unbearable for this bunch. And those restricted to just two hours a day on their devices aren't taking it any better.

CERYS: I'm going to miss out on like group chats. I just feel left out a lot.

RICKY: The kids facing a restriction on their tech usage may be dreading the next three days. But for some it's time to celebrate. Alex, you can use tech whenever you want.

ALEX: I feeling happy, cos I get to do what I always do. Just sit there and play my gadgets.

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It's day one of the tech challenge, and Alex has wasted no time getting stuck in with his gadgets.

ALEX: I've been playing my tech since I woke up, so about five hours.

Alex is loving having no restrictions on his tech use, but for 12 year old Cerys, who's limited to spending only two hours on her favourite devices, this is going to be really tough.

CERYS: I reckon I use tech around 8 hours a day. So two hours is just going to be like nothing. It's been very difficult, all I've been doing is reading books, sitting in the living room, being bored.

CERYS' DAD: She goes to bed, she has to have her gadgets. As soon as she wakes up in the morning, she has to have her gadgets. She tends to throw a little bit of a wobbler if she hasn't got them.

CERYS: This is very, very true. Yeah.

RICKY: It's day one of the tech challenge for Shakiah but the only gadget she has on her hands today is the vacuum cleaner. Shakiah is in the no tech group meaning she's banned from using all her devices for three whole days which is quite a bit different to what she's used to.

SHAKIAH: I spend at least 7-8 hours on my tech and I'm going to feel quite bored and upset cos now I'm going to have nothing to do.

RICKY: It's day 2 of the challenge and Cerys is off to work with her dad to help keep her mind off being restricted to just two hours of tech.

CERYS: I miss watching videos, going on social media. I miss it a lot!

RICKY: Meanwhile Shakiah's also hoping that lending a helping hand to her Gran will help take her mind off spending a second day without any gadgets.

SHAKIAH: Instead of using my technology, today we’re going to be making mutton soup.

SHAKIAH’S GRAN: You’re going to start with the dumpling.

SHAKIAH: It's more fun mixing dough for dumplings than watching videos.

RICKY: Getting stuck in with her Gran’s soup is having a surprising effect on tech obsessed Shakiah.

ALEX: The plan for today is going to be play for a bit in the morning and then going outside later, and then coming in when it's dark. And then playing a bit more.

RICKY: It's the final day of the tech challenge and everyone is heading out for the day, even Alex.

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ALEX: We're going to probably go swimming. It's the first time we've come out since the challenge started

RICKY: Alex is leaving the house and his unlimited tech behind for a couple of hours after a late night spent using his gadgets.

MUM: This morning when I went into Alex’s room it appeared to me that he was fast asleep and the iPad had been left on since last night.

Shakiah would usually be glued to her gadgets but having her tech taken away means she's got more time to teach her brother few tricks.

SHAKIAH: The challenge has been good because it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would, it's actually been quite easy.

RICKY: The challenge has come to an end and the limits have been lifted. Have the last three days changed what these guys think about the role tech plays in their lives?

SHAKIAH: I have missed my gadgets, but I haven’t missed them as much as I thought I would.

CERYS: The last few days has not changed the way I use tech, I would always use it in the time I use it, and nothing's gonna ever change about it.

ALEX: I think I'm gonna play less games because then you get to socialise and you make new friends.

RICKY: So Alex is going to cut down on his tech but what about the rest of the class?

CHERRIE: It surprised me with the challenge because I actually enjoyed it.

BEN: I think people use tech too much because half the time they’re always on it and they don’t really communicate with their family members as much.

BRANDON: It’s actually more fun to play with family and have fun than to spend time on electronics.

GEORGIA: It made me understand that you have to value the things around you even with or without tech.

Tech Survey

Okay so that gives you an idea what it was like for those kids to go without technology for 3 days. But how do you think you would survive? We want to know that and more in our online tech survey. It's only seven questions long and asks you about what tech you use the most and what you use it for. We'd love as many of you as possible to have a go - you can find it on our wesbite.

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Quiz 2

Okay now to our second quiz. Let's stick with technology for this one. When was the first email sent?

1941

1971

Or 2001

The answer is 1971. Hope you got that one!

The Score

Right it's sport time now. Here's some of the biggest moments from this week.

Aussie basketball legend Lauren Jackson has announced she's retiring from the sport. Over Jackson's 19 year career she's captained the Aussie side and won 4 Olympic medals. She's also dominated in the US winning most valuable player three times.

Jackson was hoping to make the Aussie team for this year's Olympics in Rio. But after having problems with a knee injury decided it was time to call it quits.

The Southern Stars have just missed out on becoming World T20 champions for the fourth straight time. The Aussies set the West Indies a target of 149 to win the final but with some huge batting performances the Windies chased the total down in the final over.

And last, up to Canberra where the Aussie wakeboarding championships were held over the weekend. There was plenty of talent on show including young gun Zara Khell. Zara's only 12 but she came 2nd in the open Women’s comp!

ZARA: I went in 10-14s last year and I won that and I just wanted to step up my riding, see what the big girls were doing and try to match them!

She certainly did that. Well done Zara!

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Refugee Soccer

Reporter: Amelia Moseley

INTRO: Finally today we're heading to Iraq where many kids forced to leave their homes now live in refugee camps. Life there is pretty tough. But for some it's just gotten a bit happier thanks to English Premier League soccer team Arsenal. Take a look.

AMELIA MOSELEY, REPORTER: Having a premier league captain rock up to your game is something any budding soccer star would be pretty stoked about!

ALEX SCOTT, ARSENAL LADIES CAPTAIN: Already, you never had this when I was growing up, I think I was the only girl playing in the neighbourhood. So it's great to see this many girls already out on the football pitch.

But when you're a kid living in a refugee camp in Northern Iraq, well, let's just say it's extra special.

ALEX: So shall we play?

KIDS: Yes!

Arsenal Ladies Captain Alex Scott’s here to teach these kids some serious skills! It's part of a soccer program set up by Arsenal and the charity, Save the Children, to give these guys something fun to do during the tough times.

You see, more than 3.3 million people have been forced to leave their homes to escape fighting in Iraq, and nearly half of them are kids. Many have ended up in camps like this, because they have nowhere else to go. 12 year old Yasmine is one of them.

YASMINE: I feel sad because we were a very happy family. Our home was full of happiness, but now it is not.

ALEX SCOTT, ARSENAL LADIES CAPTAIN: You know she's got four brothers, four sisters, and she's explaining to me where we were sitting, that's where they all sleep. You think, you'd never picture that and can imagine that. Knowing that they've just fled their homes.

That's where the soccer program comes in. The pitch was built to give these guys a happy, safe place to go where they can also learn valuable skills, like how to work as a team and focus on their goals. Alex says it's also really empowering for the girls, who've shown they're just as fiery on the pitch as the boys!

Yasmine says it's made her life feel more normal, like it used to be!

YASMINE: Before they built the football pitch, it was very boring in the caravans. We couldn't go out. But now that they have opened the football pitch and the child friendly place, we go there. We play and learn.

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Alex says she knows how important that can be to a kid.

ALEX SCOTT, ARSENAL LADIES CAPTAIN: It's so silly, it's a football pitch, but then I know what my football pitch done for me when I was growing up. Just for them to have that space, somewhere for them to go and play.

These guys say meeting the soccer star has been really inspiring.

YASMINE: When you visited, I just wanted to meet you. I had heard so much about you. When I played with you, it was a good feeling.

But Alex says brave kids like Jasmine are the real inspiration.

ALEX SCOTT, ARSENAL LADIES CAPTAIN: This is where they've been for two and a half years. How can you even get happiness out of that? But she's still smiling and still dreaming of being something more. That's what's inspiring.

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