Georgie, aged 16, has depression. She also has frequent panic attacks, she’s very stressed out, she just broke up with a high school sweetheart, some of her friends have depression, she doesn’t often sleep, and when she does, she snores loudly. Georgie ...
More »Tools for the times: equip students with the devices they need
Teachers and students must have the resources for learning modern technologies; there are many affordable options available. The Digital Technologies Curriculum was rubber-stamped in September 2015, but the rollout in many schools has been delayed. Anecdotal reports suggest this is ...
More »Cure for social ills: maintaining vigilance in the Age of Instagram
Keeping students, teachers and systems safe from cybercrime in the age of Snapchat and Instagram requires being proactive and vigilant. Educational institutions have a duty of care to provide a safe learning environment. This extends to the online world and, ...
More »Show them the world: virtual technology opening doors
Virtual technology in the classroom allows students to explore new domains like never before. Curriculum planning is always a challenge, but the key question playing on every educator’s mind today is how we can harness the power of technology to ...
More »Opinion: Classrooms that learn about students
The internet of things will add detail and flexibility to personalised learning. By Mark Verbloot The classroom of the future is here. It’s a learning space that enables a personalised educational experience, relying on technology to motivate and engage students ...
More »Get student data visualised, for easy analysis
Schoolworx is a student administration program for primary and high schools that enables administrators to visualise the performance, attendance and discipline of students and cohorts. It's a web-based program that centralises data for access on desktop and mobile devices. Modules include ...
More »Wireless, not powerless: how wifi is changing education
One of the most striking features of the EduTECH conference being held this week is how happy and satisfied all the delegates, speakers and exhibitors have been with the free wireless internet available at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. ...
More »‘The library is not a shhh place anymore’: Softlink
Softlink is a Brisbane-based company specialising in library software for schools. Its most recent release is Oliver V5, a purely web-based app that enables students to access books, both the paper and electronic kind, while at the school, at home or ...
More »STEM skills and surviving disruption: David Thodey
David Thodey is chair of the board at CSIRO and the former chief executive of Telstra. He delivered the evening keynote on day one of EduTECH in Brisbane, on the subject of STEM education and the need to equip students with ...
More »Firefly moulding the student, teacher, parent triangle
Londoner Joe Mathewson co-founded Firefly in 1999 to create a link between students, teachers and parents. The current iteration of this software enables teachers to set assignments, students to complete them and parents to monitor their kids' progress. Mathewson introduced ...
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