In recent years education has transformed immensely, with technology being a driving force of this transformation. In particular, we have seen the rise of video collaboration solutions enter the classroom, expanding learning from the four walls of the school to ...
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Smart pens protect the art of handwriting in digital age
As schools increasingly move towards embedding technology within the teaching process traditional learning techniques can be lost. However, the digital pen is one technological device that is set to bring back writing and drawing in a very modern way. During ...
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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 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 ...
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 ...
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Digital tools or traditional, value counts. Leading educators have stressed the importance of maximising the academic and financial value of student screen time to ensure any digital learning modality schools adopt is not simply technology for technology’s sake. During a panel ...
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 »Full STEAM ahead: a modern classroom
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 ...
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