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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Melbourne’s Lauriston Girls’ School is breaking new ground in the way science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics – STEAM – are being taught to students. A fabrication laboratory, called a FabLab has been set-up to reinvent the classroom for the ...