In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review dive deep into why intensive parenting is making mums and dads miserable, investigate the crowdsourcing phenomenon shaking up Big Pharma and revel in ...
More »OECD can’t decide if class sizes matter
It seems the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development can’t decide whether or not class sizes matter in schooling. In its Education At A Glance 2016 report, the OECD stated “at the level of students within a classroom, the relationship ...
More »Open-ended apps best for tablets, teacher says
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 ...
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 ...
More »Don Bradman may now help students learn maths
How did Donald Bradman achieve a cricket batting average of 99.94? That’s a question school students may be answering with Bradman by the Numbers, a new addition to Cricket Australia’s free teaching resource, Cricket Smart. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum ...
More »Are entrepreneurs born or made?
Australian youth unemployment is almost the highest it’s been in 10 years. For Generation Alpha, who are now about 5 at the oldest, it's looking more and more like the challenge they'll face as adult workers will be to innovate or fail. ...
More »Teens receive love advice from 90-somethings, via Skype
Where do high school students go for dating advice? Probably not their grandparents. Though this may change for some Year 9 students at Sydney’s Davidson High School, after 91-year-old Barrie advised them over Skype to “be bold” when it comes ...
More »High school students Plan for the Planet
Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students? The answer may depend on the elected official in question. But the Australian National University's Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ...
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