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I must admit – I was never a Harry Potter fan. Perhaps I’m too old or realistic to believe in fire-breathing dragons. But I understand its purpose: escapism to hitherto unimagined worlds where things are possible. I can also appreciate – ...

A partnership was formed this week between Turnitin and NewsGuard to help both students and teachers identify misinformation and disinformation, improve their research abilities and hone their critical media literacy skills. Users of Turnitin, an anti-cheating program that cross-matches documents ...

Despite the Independent schools union being critical of the federal education minister’s plans to bring forward funding to Independent and Catholic schools if they meet certain attendance conditions, several may have agreed to the deal. While data on how many ...

If you were to ask any teacher if they expected online learning to take off so quickly, they are likely to say that this phenomenon is unlike anything they ever expected to witness. Despite the speed with which the education ...

Teachers at the Islamic School of Canberra stopped work for one hour today to protest against the protracted nature of the enterprise bargaining process with the School Board of Islamic School of Canberra. At the centre of the protest, which ...

One of the key concerns surrounding school closures and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has been student wellbeing. As face-to face learning continues to be inconsistent across the country, schools require a way of measuring their students' wellbeing and, if ...

A stark warning has been issued by a senior health education expert that, if Australia doesn’t urgently reopen schools, a widening chasm of multigenerational disadvantage will develop between our children. “Other states and territories should follow South Australia to reopen ...

With conflicting advice from coming from different jurisdictions, and the need to quickly develop remote learning packages to ensure continuity of learning, teachers – as well as principals and other school staff across Australia – have been doing it tough. ...

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning framework needs no introduction to educators. It has been used in schools across Australia for years now to deliver consistent, evidence-based learning outcomes and is the culmination of synthesizing more than 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more ...

Michael Lawrence is a Victorian teacher and author of the forthcoming book - TESTING 3,2,1: What Australian Education Can Learn From Finland: A Teacher’s Perspective. Now that he's teaching almost entirely online, Lawrence argues that old disciplinarian models of behaviour ...