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More students than ever before in 2020!

"In 2020, we'll see a once-in-a-generation spike in school enrolments, so it is more important than ever to ensure that…

4 years ago

How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher

It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…

4 years ago

The Knox School builds and pilots first lightboard

The great advantage of this is that teachers can be recorded as they teach; the recorded image is captured together…

4 years ago

Kids may need more help finding answers to their questions in the information age

Recent studies by scientists who examine how people ask questions or explore problems have shown that by the time kids…

4 years ago

Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read

40% of children manage to learn to read without explicit and systematic phonics instruction due to a confluence of biological…

4 years ago

Innovative storage for flexible tech teaching

There was a time when people thought ‘paperless schools’ would usher in the end of filing. Au contraire! Technology-focused schools…

5 years ago

Real-world learning to solve big problems

We scoped out the latest and greatest developments in CNC routing and laser cutting for the education sector.

5 years ago

More teens are dropping maths. Here are three reasons to stick with it

The Australian Curriculum mandates maths until Year 10. But we’re seeing more students dropping the subject as soon as they…

5 years ago

NSW has 48 selective schools. Victoria has 4. There’s an interesting history behind this…

Many so-called comprehensive public high schools in high-unemployment areas have neither sustained enrolments nor a broad or comprehensive curriculum.

5 years ago

How a robot called Pink helped teach school children an Aboriginal language

Students formed a relationship with the robot and became attached to it.

5 years ago

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