Some parents may now want their kids playing more video games. Well one game anyway. The federally funded National Acoustics Laboratory (NAL) has developed "Sound Storm", a game app that it says improves the listening ability of children with spatial processing disorder. ...
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Recognise teachers’ areas of excellence vary: Rickards
Excellent teachers need to be recognised for their work and for their strengths in various areas, but not with performance pay, the dean of one of Australia’s top teacher schools has argued. Melbourne Graduate School of Education professor Field Rickards said good ...
More »Refugee advocates lobbying for student loan changes
One of the leaders behind a program mentoring high school students from refugee backgrounds is marking this year’s World Refugee Week by calling for those on temporary protection visas and asylum seekers to be eligible for federal government assistance to meet ...
More »Talking Eds, Episode 4: Girls in STEM, the unlucky country, going manic for Word Mania
This week on Talking Eds, the team behind Education Review, Campus Review and Early Learning Review discuss ways to attract and retain girls and women in STEM subjects and the disparity between lucky and unlucky young Australians. We also go manic for words in celebration ...
More »Toughen up teaching degree entry standards: Grattan
In its long list of recommendations to the next federal government, the Grattan Institute is calling for tougher entry standards into teacher education. Grattan school education program director Peter Goss estimated there has been roughly one review every year, for 40 ...
More »Talking Eds: Smoking bans, cute babies and what the Brock Turner case tells us about rape culture
In Episode 3 of APN Educational Media's weekly review podcast Talking Eds, editors James Wells from Education Review and Campus Review and Loren Smith from Early Learning Review join me, news editor Patrick Avenell, to chat about the effectiveness of ...
More »Can smartphone apps solve Georgie’s long list of problems?
Georgie, aged 16, has depression. She also has frequent panic attacks, she’s very stressed out, she just broke up with a high school sweetheart, some of her friends have depression, she doesn’t often sleep, and when she does, she snores loudly. Georgie ...
More »Vic, NZ trade ideas for building design, teaching
School building and refurbishment is now a booming industry in New Zealand and Victoria. And one architect said educators from both sides of the Tasman Sea are trading ideas for their pet projects. New Zealand’s last federal Budget allocated NZ$882.5 ($825.7 million) ...
More »Children design own school, based on a treehouse
It’s not every day that kids get to design the school they learn in. But that’s exactly what the students of Bendigo’s Golden Square Primary School did. Now the school resembles a treehouse. When architects K2LD were commissioned to design ...
More »Talking Eds: BubDesk, EduTECH, soft skills and Roz Ward
In the second episode of APN Educational Media's new Week in Review podcast, now titled Talking Eds, new editor Patrick Avenell is joined by James Wells from Education Review and Campus Review and Loren Smith from Early Learning Review to dissect ...
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