Educators need to harness to power of digital tools to better support teaching, learning and leadership in schools. That’s according to Eric Sheninger, senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education, who spoke to educators from all across ...
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Starting the assessment revolution
A senior Harvard academic has issued educators at all levels of the education system as well as students and their parents a call to action to effect what he argues is a long overdue revolution in assessment and examination models. ...
More »Super-Awesome Sylvia calls for all educators to get making
In an exclusive interview, education editor Antonia Maiolo speaks to YouTube sensation Super-Awesome Sylvia at the EduTECH conference in Brisbane. At just 13 years old Sylvia is wowing students and adults alike with her DIY web show series which features ...
More »Tablets the holy grail of tech-based learning: expert
A US educator has urged his Australian contemporaries to embrace the possibilities of tablet PC-based learning. He called it the simplest and most effective tech-based modality for transforming classroom experiences. Speaking at the EduTECH 2015 conference in Brisbane this week, ...
More »Maths and culture combine for PNG teachers
A Charles Sturt University researcher is working alongside teachers in remote villages in Papua New Guinea to help them better engage children in mathematics learning. At the heart of the project is helping teachers recognise maths-related thinking in cultural activities and ...
More »High-performing Asian countries shed traditional education systems
Western countries trying to catch up with high-performing education systems in Asia will soon be left behind as they begin to shed their traditional models of learning, new research warns. A new report, Lessons that matter: What should we learn ...
More »Researcher hopes to fund study into how dogs can raise children’s literacy levels
A Deakin University researcher has launched a fundraising campaign for a study into how therapy dogs can raise literacy levels among young children. Dr Tony Chalkley began the campaign after witnessing previously reluctant readers, happily reading to a therapy dog ...
More »Cyberbullying more complicated than face-to-face attacks
Cyberbullying can be worse than traditional face-to-face bullying, one expert argues. Dr John Selby from Macquarie University said in a number of ways cyber-bullying can be more complicated than traditional forms of bullying and that schools should have processes in ...
More »Melbourne Symphony Orchestra meets the classroom
In an effort to broaden the horizons of music education, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announced this year’s Meet the Orchestra concert will be live streamed across the nation. Meet the Orchestra is part of the larger MSO Education Week ...
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A University of New England researcher is taking a school vegetable garden program global to help encourage healthy eating and combat obesity. UNE’s professor Neil Taylor is working with professor Abdullah Ambusaidi and Dr Rashid Al-Yahya of the Sultan Qaboos ...
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