A love of teaching and a commitment to leadership and professional learning have helped Scone Grammar’s head of primary inspire others to great success. Graeme Feeney’s career as an educator has taken him from the Blue Mountains in NSW, across ...
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National Science Week gives people a chance to think ahead. But the technological future isn't just about emotive robots and self-driving cars; it also involves children. That's why, if we want a smart machine programming a self-driving car, we need to ensure ...
More »‘Social media is the biro of today’: education expert
Just south of the border between England and Scotland and west of the rugged Pennines lies the University of Cumbria. There, this week, director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute professor John Hattie urged teachers to give social media a go in ...
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Say what you want about Where the Forest Meets the Sea or Storm Boy, because overall, we beat the English at their own linguistic learning game. Dr Paul Gardner from Curtin University’s School of Education has found we are better ...
More »EduTECH: how to cultivate tomorrow’s leaders
Lee Watanabe Crockett strode onto the EduTECH stage to a track filled with electronic bleeps and loops. Wearing a Steve Jobs-like all black outfit and black-rimmed glasses, he looked and acted the part of a digital change maker. As president ...
More »Opinion: Education should develop specialists
Becoming great at something should be the goal of education. We make our career and find happiness and satisfaction from a small number of skills. If you decide to have a career as an electrician, you are better off being ...
More »Future teachers will analyse data for use: Microsoft official
Future teachers could be required to have some skills similar to data scientists, as they’ll use such numbers to personalise learning, a Microsoft executive has said. Ray Fleming, Microsoft Australia’s education industry development manager, said there is potential for schools ...
More »‘Talking Eds’, episode 18: White Ribbon Day divisions, USYD heads to China, Torrens educates teachers about autism
In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at the history and effect of White Ribbon Day, discuss the University of Sydney's expansion in China and explore Torrens University's new ...
More »Learning with moral authority: lessons from Lewis Carroll
Praxis education is what the world needs to create an environment where schooling serves the individual and public good. Serious debate regarding education in Australia, and indeed around the world, has been at a frustratingly low level for some time. ...
More »Teen tech whiz says career advice should focus on aspirations, not jobs
Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...
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