What help is available for the families of men and women of the Defence Force when their loved one is deployed overseas, potentially risking their lives in a warzone? It can be stressful for children and teenagers simply to have ...
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Talking Eds, Episode 8: How parents use technology, MOOCs go mainstream, sociology of the mouth
In Episode 8 of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review discuss how adult technology behaviour is influencing kids, how MOOCs are going mainstream, and the socioeconomic causes of bad oral hygiene and dental health.
More »Classroom shift: positioning students as creators
An alternate approach to the traditional classroom teaching model has been working its way into Australian schools, enhancing the way students learn and discover. Known as project-based learning, it positions students as creators and authoritarians rather than just content consumers, ...
More »Children’s coding event reaches for the moon
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was with those immortal words that American astronaut Neil Armstrong, representing the entire human race, etched his name into the history books, having conquered what was then ...
More »Talking Eds, Episode 7: No school no pay, there’s an app for autism and the Census comes to unis
In Episode 7 of Talking Eds, the team behind Education Review, Campus Review,and Early Learning Review discuss an ambitious plan to withhold cash from families whose kids are missing school, an award winning app to detect autism and why the ABS ...
More »Good VIEWS at STEM careers for Indigenous students
Gracing our currency’s $50 note is an iconic figure from the early 20th century who became known as the ‘Australian Leonardo da Vinci’. History knows him as David Unaipon, a Ngarrindjeri man. He was an Indigenous polymath who gained a reputation ...
More »Award-winning app gives early alerts about autism
A new app designed to detect autism early in life, offering hope to the thousands of families with young children pending diagnosis, took home honours at the Australia Information Industry Association iAwards. ASDetect is available free and operates on both iOS and ...
More »Talking Eds, Episode 6: PPD’s hidden victims, Melbourne’s new MATRIX, seniors on the internet
In Episode 6 of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review discuss post-partum depression (PPD) in new dads, a new maths hub in Melbourne, tech skills in senior citizens and the 2016 federal election. ...
More »‘Talking Eds’, Episode 5: The Con’s urban ‘Odyssey’, pre-election childcare policies, medication for kids
On Talking Eds, I am joined by Campus Review and Education Review editor James Wells and Early Learning Review editor Loren Smith to chat about four interesting stories that made the news this week. Updating Shakespeare for the kids was ...
More »How Australia’s schools produce ‘Beautiful Failures’
It’s her manifesto on everything wrong with Australia’s education system. In Lucy Clark’s nonfiction book Beautiful Failures, she examines “how the quest for success is harming our kids”. Clark says the intense pressures and stresses of high school led to ...
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