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Australia’s Federal Government has announced two unprecedented funding packages, each of which contains $750 grants to low-income families. Schools are now closed in Victoria and debate rages on the closure of schools in other states and territories. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has advised Australians should plan for Coronavirus impacts...
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NAPLAN is the Australian testing that measures the proficiency of our year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students on literacy and numeracy. The Government has announced that this year’s exams, scheduled for May, will be cancelled as a result of the disruptions caused by coronavirus. Tracking student’s results across...
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Rio Tinto will work with leaders in Australia’s education and innovation sectors in a new, disruptive approach designed to tackle a looming skills gap in the nation’s future workforce. The company will invest A$10 million in a four-year national programme, targeted at school-age learners, that aims to fast-track the...
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This week we brought you a story about a Sydney lecturer at UNSW who was using Microsoft to great effect in his large-scale course. To help Kellerman and other teachers with their efforts in delivering Teams in Education, the product is getting even more new features. Microsoft say they’ve...
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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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As the NBN rolls out across our country (due for completion next year) some of the benefits are being realised by our kids. According to a new report by Bright futures, the NBN is preparing school students for the next generation of jobs in Australia. Bright Futures: Laying the foundations for...
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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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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...
Australia’s Federal Government has announced two unprecedented funding packages, each of which contains $750 grants to low-income families. Schools are now closed in Victoria and debate rages on the closure of schools in other states and territories. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has advised Australians should plan for Coronavirus impacts...
NAPLAN is the Australian testing that measures the proficiency of our year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students on literacy and numeracy. The Government has announced that this year’s exams, scheduled for May, will be cancelled as a result of the disruptions caused by coronavirus. Tracking student’s results across...
Rio Tinto will work with leaders in Australia’s education and innovation sectors in a new, disruptive approach designed to tackle a looming skills gap in the nation’s future workforce. The company will invest A$10 million in a four-year national programme, targeted at school-age learners, that aims to fast-track the...
This week we brought you a story about a Sydney lecturer at UNSW who was using Microsoft to great effect in his large-scale course. To help Kellerman and other teachers with their efforts in delivering Teams in Education, the product is getting even more new features. Microsoft say they’ve...
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,...
As the NBN rolls out across our country (due for completion next year) some of the benefits are being realised by our kids. According to a new report by Bright futures, the NBN is preparing school students for the next generation of jobs in Australia. Bright Futures: Laying the foundations for...
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...
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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