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Teachers basically make or break your learning experience. We’ve probably all had great ones and terrible ones and can understand how significantly the best ones can make complex subject easier to understand. With so much content to learn in such a short period of time, having a very organised,...
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Victoria University decided they needed a mobile app to combine all the services students would need into one location. Instead of simply paying an app development company, they pooled resources and a student-led team of Victoria University technologists and designers created a ‘super app’. This MyVU app design has...
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Today the Labor state Government of Victoria announced a new policy that bans mobile phones in schools. From Term 1, 2020 (just 6 months from now), no child attending a public school (that’s K-12) will be allowed to have a mobile phone in an effort to reduce distraction and...
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Educating our young Australians about the risks they’ll face online is important, but so is offering them the opportunity to learn about cyber security at a deep level. The Australian Computing Academy (ACA), this week launched the Schools Cyber Security Challenges (Cyber Challenges) in Western Australia. The new $1.3...
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Girl Geek Academy has partnered with world leading technology businesses Deloitte Digital and 99designs, to pilot a first-of-its-kind work experience program where students from Korowa Anglican Girls School will work alongside industry experts to create their own startups. As a father of an 8 month old girl, I’ve got...
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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...
Teachers basically make or break your learning experience. We’ve probably all had great ones and terrible ones and can understand how significantly the best ones can make complex subject easier to understand. With so much content to learn in such a short period of time, having a very organised,...
Victoria University decided they needed a mobile app to combine all the services students would need into one location. Instead of simply paying an app development company, they pooled resources and a student-led team of Victoria University technologists and designers created a ‘super app’. This MyVU app design has...
Today the Labor state Government of Victoria announced a new policy that bans mobile phones in schools. From Term 1, 2020 (just 6 months from now), no child attending a public school (that’s K-12) will be allowed to have a mobile phone in an effort to reduce distraction and...
Educating our young Australians about the risks they’ll face online is important, but so is offering them the opportunity to learn about cyber security at a deep level. The Australian Computing Academy (ACA), this week launched the Schools Cyber Security Challenges (Cyber Challenges) in Western Australia. The new $1.3...
Girl Geek Academy has partnered with world leading technology businesses Deloitte Digital and 99designs, to pilot a first-of-its-kind work experience program where students from Korowa Anglican Girls School will work alongside industry experts to create their own startups. As a father of an 8 month old girl, I’ve got...
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...
