A robot that can speak with students, act out book characters’ dialogue and set tasks in the classroom has been rolled out at a special needs school in Victoria. La Trobe University teamed up with Waratah Special Developmental School to ...
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What jobs will be on offer to students graduating high school this year? That’s the question IBISWorld hoped to help answer through a new release on the industries set to add the most new jobs to the Australian economy. The ...
More »Teaching and inspiring the next generation of innovators: Lessons from EduTECH 2018
With the 2018 EduTECH juggernaut taking over Sydney’s International Exhibition and Convention Centre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour late last week, Education Review was on hand to bring you a snapshot of some of the key presentations on the opening day ...
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Students at Coomera Anglican College are visiting Egypt in the morning, Antarctica at lunch, and Mars in the afternoon, thanks to the opening of its newest facility, The Pod, this week. The futuristic facility was designed to "take learning out of ...
More »“Technologically advanced” school to train future teachers
A state-of-the-art facility for the teachers of the future has opened its doors at the University of South Australia's Magill campus for the first time. The $4 million Samsung SMARTSchool was built to be a "technologically advanced" teacher-training facility with a ...
More »Technology in education: a forecast for 2018
Digital transformation and the rise of millennials are dominating headlines in the Asia Pacific region (APAC). Rapid advancements in technology are drastically improving the way we do things. As millennials come of age, modern students will be adept with technology, ...
More »Aussie students win politicised robotics tournament
At the FIRST Global Challenge Robotics Olympics, politics was also at play. At the eleventh hour, Donald Trump allowed an all-female Afghani team, whose visas had been twice-rejected, to compete. They may have owned the spotlight, but it was an Australian team that ...
More »More than robo-markers: AI in the classroom
To some, artificial intelligence (AI) sounds like a futuristic possibility. But it’s already here, and it’s prolific. Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are just two examples of advanced AI embedding itself into our lives. Education, too, is not immune to AI’s creep. When it ...
More »Phenomenons amongst fads
The challenge: sift through all the hype to understand which new gadgets and tools will lead education down the path of success. By Rob Livingstone. We are all living in a global experiment, the results of which will not be ...
More »Catch up to change
Many teachers and schools are integrating new technology into the curriculum but more need to ditch old models and start adapting rapidly. By Annabel Astbury. In November 2011, an article appeared online explaining that 3D printing would revolutionise education; ...
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