“Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach,” Marc Prensky wrote nearly 15 years ago, describing digital natives. Globalisation, the redefinition and expansion of knowledge, technological advances and ways in which organisations and institutions operate ...

  A robot that children can teach to write has landed a Queensland University of Technology graduate a top international artificial intelligence industry award. Deanna Hood has been developing the capacity of a programmable humanoid robot to learn to write ...

Using tablets to track learning in the early years of schooling can improve data management and is a fun and engaging way to assess the educational progress of students, a leading researcher says. Maurice Walker, a principal research fellow in ...

Dr Michael Phillips, digital technologies lecturer in the faculty of education at Monash University, speaks to education editor Antonia Maiolo about what new technologies we can expect to see in classrooms this year. Phillips, who’s a former teacher, predicts that ...

Australia’s peak parent body has called for stronger privacy safeguards for students, echoing US president Obama’s pledge last week to protect American school kids from data mining. The Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO) has long argued for a ...

As students across Australia prepare to return to school, new research shows mums and dads are struggling to decide on the best technology to buy for them. It also found parents are wasting thousands on devices that don’t apply in ...

An upcoming shift in the accounting laws is set to have a big impact on reporting for schools. By Antonia Maiolo Many schools are unaware of a new standard in financial reporting that could put them at risk of breaching ...

England is leading a quiet revolution in the world of education. In September, it becomes the first country in the world to mandate computer programming lessons in primary and secondary schools. Children will start learning to write code at the ...

Children are planning, writing, filming and editing their own movies for school, and developing skills for lifelong learning in the process. By Fran Molloy. As we enter the 21st century classroom and students are encouraged to become content producers, not ...

The explosion of eLearning tools can seem daunting but, used properly, they can streamline administrative tasks and help put the focus on teaching students. By Fran Molloy. Classroom teachers are under increased pressure to measure and report on their students’ ...