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Sphero is well known for their series of connected robots that respond to your command, via smartphones. When Sphero released the Education version, known as Sphero Edu, things got serious, transforming the product from entertainment to a platform that could be programmed, serving as a great tool to...
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Facebook have launched a new initiative called Workplace for Good. This offers makes their paid Workplace product, available to all educational institutions and not-for-profits, for free. Normally US$3.00 per month, per person, Workplace is currently being used by thousands of nonprofits and educational institutions and with the price now being free, will likely...
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GE this week announced more than one hundred Australian schools have been selected for its 2018 GE Additive Education Program, the largest rollout of its kind in Australia. The primary and secondary schools from across the country will receive a polymer 3D printer, supporting software and an education curriculum...
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Each year, the James Dyson Award celebrates students and recent graduates of engineering and design, with a competition, the winner of which can take home around A$53,000 to go chase that idea, or problem. This competition provides a platform to showcase their problem solving inventions on a global stage....
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The iPad is an incredible device, it’s easily the best tablet on the market, but for for all the hype and fanfare around Apple’s big education event, the new version of the iPad, now comes with a Pencil. The iPad features a retina display, has 10 hours of battery...
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The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney is trialing Microsoft Teams. As part of a strategic plan to become “Australia’s global university,” the University says they seek out and test technologies to help simplify and extend collaboration—not only among students and faculty, but within organisational work groups, between...
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Announced in the lead up to Christmas, the NSW Government has made a bold and important change to the way we education our children. From the new school year in 2019, the set curriculum for students aged from kindergarten and up, will include programming (or coding). Founder of nationwide...
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Ford have announced they’re bringing their Driving Skills for Life program to Wodonga among many other stops around the country. The hands-on driving program covers 6 key areas – Hazard Recognition, Vehicle Handling, Speed Management, Space Management, Pedestrian Awareness and Cycling Safety. Given we don’t teach people driving skills...
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Last night, the University of Sydney launched its new Immersive Learning Laboratory which enables students to learn through VR. There’s no doubt, Sydney Uni understands that Virtual Reality is the next big computing platform which will deliver large advanced in education and entertainment, demonstrated by being the largest VR lab...
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If you’re a student heading to RMIT University this year, then you have the opportunity to get up close an personal with Aussie Daniel Ricciardo‘s Formula 1 car. The RB7 is the car he drove in the 2012 season, but still looks the part right here in 2017. RMIT...
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SAE Australia is one of Australia’s largest dedicated creative media education institutes with courses in Animation, Audio, Design, Film, Games, Web and Mobile. Their campuses stretch across Australia, but its their latest in Sydney that’s the most impressive. Opening its doors for the first week of studies in 2017,...
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Home automation is something that sounds amazingly appealing, like a chance to live in a futuristic world where your home takes care of itself and you get to relax. Unfortunately there’s no one stop shop for connected devices that makes this dream a reality. Fortunately there is a way of...
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Its not often you get to entertain or educate yourself for free, but Udemy have a special on 36 courses that are all absolutely free for you. The deal that showed up on OzBargain.com.au yesterday includes some amazing technology courses like ‘A to Z Ethical hacking’ (normally $205) and...
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When it comes to assisting the smartest and most creative minds in the country, the University of Sydney is doing a pretty fantastic job. It’s entrepreneur program called INCUBATE has been successful in surfacing some of the most innovative ideas in the country. That program has just received a...
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The primary reason for most gamers to pay for Xbox Live Gold Membership is to play online against friends across the globe. There is however a great benefits that Xbox Live members get that many aren’t taking advantage of. Each month, Microsoft discount games and add-ons, but they also...
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The jobs of the future won’t be in manufacturing, they’ll be in writing the software that drives the robots in the factories. Programming is such a fundamental skill that all kids should have exposure to it, even if they’re don’t end up going into a computer-related industry, every industry...
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Comedian and maths geek, Adam Spencer just wrapped up is morning keynote at the MoodleMoot conference in Melbourne. After explaining the world’s search for large prime numbers, Spencer moved on to reflect on Australia’s education system. He says there’s currently no point in his daughter’s education plan (she’s 7),...
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Founder of Learning Management System, Martin Dougiamas just announced Moodle Cloud at MoodleMoot Australia 2015. The new service is hosting of Moodle sites, direct from the Moodle core team. This announcement will certainly b e controversial as it steps on the traditional partner model that hosts sites for...
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If you’re a student in Victoria and love to hack on code, hardware or just problems in general, you should know UNIHACK is back for 2015. The student hackathon, is coming back this August, with registrations open now. For the very first time, all university and TAFE students from...
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This isn’t the sexiest video you’ll ever watch, but it is likely the most important you’ll watch this week. Education is something dear to my heart and at Google’s I/O developer conference, ex-GoogleX employee, now Udacity founder, Sebastian Thrun talks about how anyone can learn to develop for Android....
Sphero is well known for their series of connected robots that respond to your command, via smartphones. When Sphero released the Education version, known as Sphero Edu, things got serious, transforming the product from entertainment to a platform that could be programmed, serving as a great tool to...
Facebook have launched a new initiative called Workplace for Good. This offers makes their paid Workplace product, available to all educational institutions and not-for-profits, for free. Normally US$3.00 per month, per person, Workplace is currently being used by thousands of nonprofits and educational institutions and with the price now being free, will likely...
GE this week announced more than one hundred Australian schools have been selected for its 2018 GE Additive Education Program, the largest rollout of its kind in Australia. The primary and secondary schools from across the country will receive a polymer 3D printer, supporting software and an education curriculum...
Each year, the James Dyson Award celebrates students and recent graduates of engineering and design, with a competition, the winner of which can take home around A$53,000 to go chase that idea, or problem. This competition provides a platform to showcase their problem solving inventions on a global stage....
The iPad is an incredible device, it’s easily the best tablet on the market, but for for all the hype and fanfare around Apple’s big education event, the new version of the iPad, now comes with a Pencil. The iPad features a retina display, has 10 hours of battery...
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney is trialing Microsoft Teams. As part of a strategic plan to become “Australia’s global university,” the University says they seek out and test technologies to help simplify and extend collaboration—not only among students and faculty, but within organisational work groups, between...
Announced in the lead up to Christmas, the NSW Government has made a bold and important change to the way we education our children. From the new school year in 2019, the set curriculum for students aged from kindergarten and up, will include programming (or coding). Founder of nationwide...
Ford have announced they’re bringing their Driving Skills for Life program to Wodonga among many other stops around the country. The hands-on driving program covers 6 key areas – Hazard Recognition, Vehicle Handling, Speed Management, Space Management, Pedestrian Awareness and Cycling Safety. Given we don’t teach people driving skills...
Last night, the University of Sydney launched its new Immersive Learning Laboratory which enables students to learn through VR. There’s no doubt, Sydney Uni understands that Virtual Reality is the next big computing platform which will deliver large advanced in education and entertainment, demonstrated by being the largest VR lab...
If you’re a student heading to RMIT University this year, then you have the opportunity to get up close an personal with Aussie Daniel Ricciardo‘s Formula 1 car. The RB7 is the car he drove in the 2012 season, but still looks the part right here in 2017. RMIT...
SAE Australia is one of Australia’s largest dedicated creative media education institutes with courses in Animation, Audio, Design, Film, Games, Web and Mobile. Their campuses stretch across Australia, but its their latest in Sydney that’s the most impressive. Opening its doors for the first week of studies in 2017,...
Home automation is something that sounds amazingly appealing, like a chance to live in a futuristic world where your home takes care of itself and you get to relax. Unfortunately there’s no one stop shop for connected devices that makes this dream a reality. Fortunately there is a way of...
Its not often you get to entertain or educate yourself for free, but Udemy have a special on 36 courses that are all absolutely free for you. The deal that showed up on OzBargain.com.au yesterday includes some amazing technology courses like ‘A to Z Ethical hacking’ (normally $205) and...
When it comes to assisting the smartest and most creative minds in the country, the University of Sydney is doing a pretty fantastic job. It’s entrepreneur program called INCUBATE has been successful in surfacing some of the most innovative ideas in the country. That program has just received a...
The primary reason for most gamers to pay for Xbox Live Gold Membership is to play online against friends across the globe. There is however a great benefits that Xbox Live members get that many aren’t taking advantage of. Each month, Microsoft discount games and add-ons, but they also...
The jobs of the future won’t be in manufacturing, they’ll be in writing the software that drives the robots in the factories. Programming is such a fundamental skill that all kids should have exposure to it, even if they’re don’t end up going into a computer-related industry, every industry...
