If tablet technology is going to be used in the classroom, open-ended apps should be employed, to prevent tablets from becoming “21st century shut-up sheets”, one teacher has advised. Grant Jones, a technology teacher at St Marys Public School in Sydney’s ...
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Opinion: Formal schooling can wait
Over recent decades, in many countries across the world, there has been increasing concern about the disparity in life expectations between children born into relative affluence and those born into more disadvantaged circumstances. This is true between nations, of course, ...
More »Zero happiness: Indigenous teens down on life in survey
A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as 0 out of 10. Only 1 per cent of ...
More »R U OK? Day an opportunity to listen to those around you
R U OK? Or, as it is sounded out, Are You Okay? Thursday, September 8 is RUOK? Day, a designated moment in our lives to turn our attention to friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, fellow students and even strangers, and take an interest ...
More »National Child Protection Week champions community action
It takes a community – the modern-day village – to keep a child safe. That’s the key message of this year’s annual National Child Protection Week, which began on Sunday. The event is organised by the National Association for Prevention ...
More »4 tips for building professional learning networks
A professional learning network (PLN) – it’s something teachers are told about at conferences. It consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from. In PLNs, people connect with other people for the specific purpose of learning ...
More »Nature Research simplifies science on new website
Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public. The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...
More »Don’t grade Genius Hour, teacher says
Genius Hour is becoming a trend in schools in Australia and globally. And one teacher has warned teachers shouldn’t tell the students they will assess it, and shouldn't mark it via a rubric. Otherwise, they'll just get slide show presentations. And if ...
More »Herald Sun to launch news website for children
News Corp’s Herald Sun newspaper will launch its Kids News website next year, with the goal of delivering age-appropriate information to school children – helping teachers discuss current affairs in the classroom. The website will be edited by Karina Grift, the Herald Sun’s education editor. ...
More »Leadership’s many contexts: from Humpty Doo with passion
Primary school principal sees the value of building and applying command skills in everything from classroom teaching and learning to succession planning. When Susanne Fisher speaks about staff at Humpty Doo Primary School, where she is principal, she describes their ...
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