In an exclusive interview, Education Review spoke with 3P Learning chief executive Andrew Smith to find out about 3P's range of educational apps to support teachers, parents and students, as well as to discuss its move to the Windows platform. 3P’s ...
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Schools need modern environment, curriculum: expert
Schools must innovate and transform to match the needs of 21st-century learners, Dr Heidi Hayes Jacobs, president of Curriculum Designers Inc. argues. Hayes Jacobs, an internationally recognised expert in curriculum mapping, told a masterclass audience at the recent EduTECH conference ...
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Collaboration is becoming increasingly important for the modern classroom particularly when it comes to improving productivity and effectiveness through technology, a roundtable discussion heard yesterday at a conference in Brisbane. Matthew O’Brien, head of strategic planning at Brisbane Boys College ...
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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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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. ...
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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 ...
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