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How a 250-year-old company is modifying Google
An encyclopaedia is remaining relevant by augmenting its competitors. Encyclopedia Britannica, which was established in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768, has created a Google Chrome browser extension that cuts through search engine 'noise'. Britannica Insights works by delivering encyclopaedic information alongside, say, Google ...
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NSW state schools will receive a $6 billion windfall in the upcoming state budget, with new schools, classrooms and upgrades planned over the next four years. The funding boost aims to cater for the state's increasing student population, set to ...
More »Birmo’s message for EduTECH 2018
Fittingly, at the largest education event in the southern hemisphere, the foremost antipodean education official spoke. Simon Birmingham used his address to the vast EduTECH crowd to celebrate the education reforms of the past year. Yet while the Education Minister mainly rhapsodised ...
More »6 Educational Tools Australian Teachers Are Using In 2018
Emerging technologies can (and should!) be used by teachers to engage, inspire, and better educate their students. Here, we look into 6 of the top education tools Australian teachers are using in their classrooms. There’s no escaping technology and its ...
More »Maths and the real world: students calculate novel solutions to actual problems
If you've ever heard a student ask, 'how does this maths equation relate to real life?', 12 fellow students have answers. Hailing from Canberra’s Radford College and Baulkham Hills High School in Sydney’s north-east, based on this ability, they were selected from ...
More »Doctors call for death education in schools
Death education should be taught in the classroom to demystify ageing and dying among younger Australians, Queensland doctors have argued. Australian Medical Association Queensland said young people need to be educated about medical, legal and other issues that surround ageing ...
More »Futurist predicts kids’ destinies
Phil Ruthven AM is no ordinary futurist. As the founder of global economic and social market research firm IBISWorld and the newly-formed Ruthven Institute, he has nearly fifty years of experience, as well as access to volumes of big data, to ...
More »Schools and unis becoming more lethal: report
Learning isn't typically associated with danger, but that connection is increasingly palpable. Over the last five years, there have been over 12,700 attacks harming more than 21,000 students and educators. These statistics, courtesy of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from ...
More »Ninety per cent of teachers report intolerable admin
Administration, box ticking exercises and data-related menial tasks waste valuable preparation time and get in the way of delivering authentic learning Administrative tasks and record keeping had more than doubled in the past five years I feel overworked at the ...
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