A recent snapshot of Australian parents’ attitudes towards education shows that more than one in three parents feel unequipped to support their children’s learning into the future. Parents and their children’s success The study by tutoring service Cluey Learning concluded ...
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School boys’ writing standards have slipped again - Year Nine boys now write on average at a Year Seven level. It’s looking like an Australian education crisis, though not a new one. It is worth noting, girls’ writing has been ...
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It’s one of the pressing issues of our age: How, if at all, can we humanise technology? That’s the big question for this year’s Game Changer Challenge, an annual competition that began in 2018 and is open to over 2200 ...
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Interactive panels – or interactive whiteboards as they are often called – have come a long way since they first entered classrooms way back in the 1990s. These “touchpads turned on their side and stuck on the wall” have revolutionised ...
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As any educator will tell you: telling your students about something is one thing, but being able to show them is another. That’s the idea behind On Safari, the latest Google Expedition created by the NSW Department of Education and ...
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Although technology plays a key role in the classrooms of Stamford American International School in Singapore, the overarching belief is that it has to enhance teaching practice and not just be used for the sake of it. That’s the key ...
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