In July and August, Citrix conducted a national survey with 500 parents of Australian school children to capture their opinions as their households adapted to education technology, in order to facilitate learning from home in the midst of the COVID-19 ...
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Data and differentiation in online learning: opinion
In my frequent conversations with teachers across the globe, I am privy to many of their challenges. Many of these challenges are centred around differentiation in the classroom. And with the recent pandemic forcing a far deeper engagement with their ...
More »Moving on from ‘stand and deliver’ teaching
“Look, why don’t you ask your teacher?” It was the exasperated lament of generations of parents frustrated by the endless and incessant questioning of their own children as they navigated homework, or even as they just wondered something banal out ...
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Australian parents have, in 2020, had a peek behind the curtain of what it means to be a teacher. Sure, it hasn’t been real. I mean, any parent who contends that they’ve been “doing” remote learning themselves is having a little ...
More »Motivation matters: What we’ve learnt about education from a pandemic – Opinion
Understanding the importance of motivation in education has never been more significant than now. Studies have shown that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation directly correlates with an improvement in students’ academic performance and grades. However, the current educational discord as ...
More »Self-talk, sequence learning, explicit teaching, worked-examples and brain-based pedagogical considerations
In trying to teach self-management to young students who had been identified as being impulsive and unruly, Donald Meichenbaum found he was able to help these students manage and control their impulsive behaviours when he applied the strategy of self-talk. ...
More »Against all odds: why the Class of 2020 might be the strongest we’ve ever produced – Opinion
As we near the end of the school year, graduation ceremonies look set to be yet another casualty of COVID. Yet if any cohort deserves the tears and cheers of a full ceremony, it’s this year’s Year 12s. There’s the ...
More »Now more than ever, it’s vital that schools teach their pupils to be e-smart: Opinion
The educational, social and developmental benefits of digital technology are clear - especially in the midst of a global pandemic, where our devices have become a vital window to the outside world. Despite this, we can’t ignore the risks that ...
More »Some first-hand thoughts on educational leadership in 2020: Opinion
I can only imagine the number of times that visionaries and leaders in organisations were intending to take “2020” as a significant play on words as vision was cast and strategic plans were unrolled. Because, let’s face it, every leader ...
More »How to embrace change during a pandemic: Opinion
The global pandemic has irrevocably changed the way we live and work. Every element of our lives has been shifted, from the way we leave our house to the way we greet our friends. Yet, nowhere has this been more ...
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