What is School of the Air?
[[File:SchooloftheAir.jpg|thumb|250x250px| School of the Air's studio in [[Alice Springs]] in 2005]] In some places, very few children are in a large area. These people usually live far apart. If there are settlements, they are also far apart. In most places of the world, [[children]] of a certain age need to go to school. '''School of the Air''' is a phrase which describes children being taught using [[radio]], or other technologies. The children do not need to [[travel]], they stay at home. The phrase was first used for a kind of [[distance learning]], which is targeted at chldren going to [[Primary school|primary]] or [[secondary school]]s. It was first used in remote areas of [[Australia]], especially the [[outback]]. In these areas, people live too far apart, and there are too few school-age children to run a normal school in a [[village]]. == History == Around 1929, [[Alfred Traeger]] invented a radio that could be run by human power, it was called the [[pedal radio]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Biography - Alfred Hermann Traeger - Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Behr|first=John|date=|work=Adb.online.anu.edu.au|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|chapter=Traeger, Alfred Hermann (1895–1980)|access-date=24 August 2019|chapter-url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120280b.htm}}</ref> With [[Adelaide Miethke]], who was a [[teacher]], they made up a programme for schools, which also used the radio communication services of the [[Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia|Royal Flying Doctor Service]]. These were important milestones that helped develop the School of the Air.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Territory Stories: Adelaide Miethke|hdl=10070/218047 |url=http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/218047|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824105441/http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/218047|archive-date=24 August 2019|access-date=24 August 2019}}</ref> The first School of the Air lessons were officially sent from the Roy