Australian schools are under pressure to protect student data amid an influx of new artificial technology tools and a rapidly developing social media landscape. Education Review spoke with Grok Academy's Lead Educator, Owen Brasier, to explore the greatest cyber challenges ...
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How teachers can deal with vicarious trauma: opinion
Teachers, school counsellors, teaching assistants, and education staff members care deeply about the students they work with on a daily basis. The past few years have brought many different kinds of trauma to our students and to us personally. The ...
More »QLD bans phones, smart watches at school
A ban on mobile phones and smartwatches will begin in Queensland schools from next year. Students at state schools will have to give up their devices for the entire school day, starting from Term 1 of the 2024 school year. The decision is a ...
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Universities will have until 2025 to roll out major changes in their teaching degrees as part of a major shake-up of teacher education in Australia. Last week, education ministers signed off “in principle” on 14 recommendations from experts tasked to ...
More »Australia’s students need more mental health support
More students in Australia are experiencing poor mental health and concentration issues during highly stressful periods like the HSC, new data shows. Figures released by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) show that 6924 Australian students received extra support during ...
More »Education leaders meet with Clare on school reform
Teachers, principals and key education figures will meet with federal education minister Jason Clare on Friday in Canberra to negotiate the upcoming National School Reform Agreement (NSRA). The meeting comes after the federal education department released a consultation paper that ...
More »More than half of students want AI regulation
Australian students are using AI programs like ChatGPT as a drafting tool for assignments rather than to cheat, a new study has shown. A recent survey conducted by YouthInsight interviewed 567 young people aged between 14 to 26, with nearly ...
More »School’s tough warning to parents
Parents of students from a group of West Australian Anglican schools have been told they could be banned or their children could be expelled for breaches of a strict new code of conduct. The rules have been rolled out by the West ...
More »How teachers can actually relax on the school holidays
Every teacher has heard the refrain from their non-teacher friends, relatives, acquaintances and even random strangers, about how “lucky” they are to get twelve weeks of holiday a year. Little do these people know exactly how much we need this ...
More »Invest in a brighter future: How schools can increase student engagement in STEAM with LEGO® Education
The past few years have been filled with challenges for teachers and students as they navigate a new way of learning. Teachers have had a particularly hard time as the needs of students and schools rapidly change, and they are ...
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