Sunshine Coast Grammar School's head of primary puts a premium on developing the ability to think effectively in all situations – for teachers and students. Paul Clegg trained as a primary teacher and spent 10 years as a classroom teacher ...
More »Show them the world: virtual technology opening doors
Virtual technology in the classroom allows students to explore new domains like never before. Curriculum planning is always a challenge, but the key question playing on every educator’s mind today is how we can harness the power of technology to ...
More »Talking Eds: BubDesk, EduTECH, soft skills and Roz Ward
In the second episode of APN Educational Media's new Week in Review podcast, now titled Talking Eds, new editor Patrick Avenell is joined by James Wells from Education Review and Campus Review and Loren Smith from Early Learning Review to dissect ...
More »Get student data visualised, for easy analysis
Schoolworx is a student administration program for primary and high schools that enables administrators to visualise the performance, attendance and discipline of students and cohorts. It's a web-based program that centralises data for access on desktop and mobile devices. Modules include ...
More »Wireless, not powerless: how wifi is changing education
One of the most striking features of the EduTECH conference being held this week is how happy and satisfied all the delegates, speakers and exhibitors have been with the free wireless internet available at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. ...
More »‘The library is not a shhh place anymore’: Softlink
Softlink is a Brisbane-based company specialising in library software for schools. Its most recent release is Oliver V5, a purely web-based app that enables students to access books, both the paper and electronic kind, while at the school, at home or ...
More »STEM skills and surviving disruption: David Thodey
David Thodey is chair of the board at CSIRO and the former chief executive of Telstra. He delivered the evening keynote on day one of EduTECH in Brisbane, on the subject of STEM education and the need to equip students with ...
More »Firefly moulding the student, teacher, parent triangle
Londoner Joe Mathewson co-founded Firefly in 1999 to create a link between students, teachers and parents. The current iteration of this software enables teachers to set assignments, students to complete them and parents to monitor their kids' progress. Mathewson introduced ...
More »Right tech tools can transform learning
David Barnett is managing director of Pearson. Originally a textbook company, Pearson has evolved into a provider of tech-focused learning solutions. Barnett is in Brisbane exhibiting the company's wares at EduTECH. He spoke with Education Review about the disruption taking ...
More »Macquarie Uni rolls out HSCStudyLab to hone STEM skills
Macquarie University has launched a new online resource to help high school students revise for their end-of-schooling exams. It's modeled on the New South Wales HSC curriculum and, to start with, comprises biology, chemistry and physics modules. Krista Borg, director ...
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