This story appeared in the March 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
As children increasingly turn to AI for information, advice and support, researchers are exploring how the way chatbots respond can shape young people’s understanding of these technologies.
Students have barricaded a high school in northeastern Paris with rubbish bins before police moved in with tear gas as protests across France show few signs of ending.
If a child tells a bot about being sexually exploited, what will the bot say back? That is the question troubling the Australian Federal Police, as it found more than one-third of sexually abused children never told a human what had happened to them.
Despite a growing undercurrent of demand for flexible school week arrangements and a range of possible benefits for teachers and families, four-day school weeks carry shortfalls for students and working parents, an education expert says.
A new study analysing nearly 50 years of research has identified a link between teacher wellbeing and students’ motivation and academic achievement.
A new study has revealed an alarming professional knowledge gap amongst Australian teachers, with a significant number backing debunked instructional myths and discredited ideas about how students learn best.
As financial education manager of the largest financial literacy program in Australia, I often find myself listening to the questions and conversations generated by our workshops. Recently these conversations have been dominated by two things – lo...
Demonstrations have again swept across France as teachers and parents took to the streets with high school pupils on the biggest day of what the prime minister described as the most violent student demonstrations in decades.
An ambitious university-led program is aiming to empower primary school students to respond to the environmental changes around them by teaching climate resilience.
An open letter calling on education ministers to release the unpublished findings of a taxpayer-funded review into AERO is gaining momentum.
