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Video conferencing turns schools into global crossroads.  By Fran Molloy It was 6 o’clock on a dark winter evening last term when the kids from Bronwyn Joyce’s Year 5/6 class came back to school with their parents, still in their ...

UWA course helps secondary teachers devise pedagogy for rapidly changing times and embrace lifelong learning. By Aileen Macalintal. The University of Western Australia’s master’s in curriculum studies aims to give practising teachers a renewed edge. Finding culturally significant, technologically relevant ...

Today’s classrooms may be full of amateur hackers. A few precautions can make their task much more difficult. By Louis White In today’s information technology world, it is almost impossible not to have some device in your hand or within ...

  Even amidst all the demands on classroom time, physical education offers too many benefits to cut. By Jennifer White If I were to reflect on my experience of primary school sport, I’d remember longing for the twilight sports carnival, ...

  Google Teacher Academy helps educators prepare students for the future. By Fran Molloy        Abi Woldhuis was one of 50 teachers from all over the world who attended the Google Teacher Academy in Sydney in May this ...

Principal says poll data helps Arden track the ultimate outcomes of education. By Graham Anderson As a principal and teacher working in five schools over 31 years, I have followed education policy in Australia closely for decades. During this time, ...

Educators are sharing ideas all over the world via Twitter and other social media tools. By Fran Molloy A Twit-ocracy of collaboration is levelling century-old institutional barriers across Australia, as teachers from independent, government and systemic schools share resources, ideas ...

  The School for Life Foundation provides access to education for dozens of children in Uganda. By Antonia Maiolo. Annabelle Chauncy and Dave Everett were both just 21 years old when they decided to set up the School for Life ...

Informal gatherings help educators find, implement new tools. By Fran Molloy The global TeachMeet movement started in Scotland in 2005 when a group of teachers got together to share ideas about introducing technology into their classrooms – and the concept ...

Chatswood’s St Pius X inspires more fitness activity with new gym, equipment. By Antonia Maiolo Greg Virgona, sportsmaster at St Pius X College (SPX) in Chatswood, Sydney, has found that the newly renovated school gym is inspiring more students to ...