School of the Air

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Address: 80 Head Street, Alice Springs
Hours: Open Mon - Sat 8:30am - 4:30pm, Sun 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Admission: Adults: AU$6.50, Children (5 - 16 yrs): AU$4.50

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Cultural Experience, Monument - Historical

2:47 PM Thursday, May 23
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These days it’s commonplace for many schools to offer programs online, where you can receive a degree without ever seeing a teacher. Well, before the age of the internet, there was radio-- the means of how School of the Air in Alice Springs, Australia, nobly pioneered the idea to reach out to kids in obscure destinations without proper schools. One visit to the school premises, which is now complete with its own Visitor Center, and you can share a moving experience that shows how the utilization of technology we take for granted has not only brought people together, but shaped lives.

Teaching primary and secondary level students since the 50’s, today students are outstretched as far as 502,000 square miles from the school. You can watch a film about the history of this truly unique school, and even listen in on live classes, which have since switched from the radio era to a highly more modernized and efficient broadband internet model. If you happen to arrive when sessions are closed, you may listen in on pre-recorded lessons, with interpreters on site to help you with translations and to field any questions.

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Review by bev, November 2012
Doing what: Alice Springs Highlights Half-Day Tour

great guide. myles clearly passionate about his job and his town. thankyou to him for making this tour so very interesting.

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Review by William A R, September 2012
Doing what: Alice Springs Highlights Half-Day Tour

really very informative fantastic coach driver thoroughly enjoyed it

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Review by deebee, March 2012
Doing what: Alice Springs Town Hop-on Hop-off Tour

Had special day! No others booked so we had van and driver all to ourselves! He was excellent and took us to everyplace, at our pace,and commented on everything! He was wonderful as was this "tour." Thanks!

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Once in Alice Spring’s, local buses from town are available for $2 that will drop you off right in front of the Visitor Center, otherwise it is a mere 2.1 miles from town, where you can drive or even take the available hiking and walking path that leads right to the front door.

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