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 ...
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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 ...
More »Trinity Grammar students showcase real-world learning
The social exclusion of the elderly, global warming, and the real-life implications of xenophobic political ideologies are just some of the weighty issues Year 6 students at Sydney’s Trinity Grammar School have covered over the past year. And earlier in November, ...
More »Birmingham hints at policy to ensure evidence-based teaching
Federal education minister Simon Birmingham has indicated he will push for school teaching methods to become more evidence-based. Birmingham said at the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit that “I would like, as education minister, to see us, over time, ...
More »Science teaching can be done cheaply, educator says
You don’t need fancy labs to teach science in school, an educator has argued, just go down to the supermarket and spend $10. Holly Kershaw, creative director of Fizzics Education – a provider of science workshops and shows for children ...
More »New website schools NSW parents on ethics class option
A website launched by Primary Ethics, the provider of ethics lessons in New South Wales, may help more parents become aware of the availability of non-religious ethics instruction for their children. Recently, the NSW Government made informing parents of kindergarteners about ethics lessons ...
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