More than 5,600 delegates descended on Brisbane for the EduTECH National Congress and Expo 2014. We spoke to several educators about the highlight of their conference and the innovative ideas they would be taking back to their schools to share with their colleagues and students.
Consent educators and anti-violence advocates are busily attempting to tackle covert misogynistic attitudes online that encourage harmful attitudes among young men towards women.
School refusal – or ‘school can’t’ as advocates with lived experience prefer to call it – must be understood by teachers as a nervous system issue and not behavioural problem that demands disciplinary action, the head of a prominent support group ...
In the first week of term, a teacher sets a writing task. One student uses a generative AI tool to generate a polished response. Another uses the same tool to test ideas, get feedback on a draft, and learn how to improve it. The technology is iden...
As we begin another school year, my prevailing hope is that teachers can instil students with a set of values which challenge the prevailing cancerous ideology destroying our society.
Northern Territory public school students will have to sing the national anthem at all assemblies and special events in future, to teach respect and help restore national pride, the Country Liberal Party said.
As appetite for stop work strike action brews amongst Victoria’s public teaching ranks, the state’s teachers’ union has slammed the Allan Labor Government for a ‘shameful anti-union’ move pulled yesterday.
A prominent educational neuroscientist has warned that we risk further eroding children’s cognitive development if the expansion of edtech into classrooms continues as it is currently.
As students across the country return to classrooms, Engineers Australia says that declining participation in mathematics and STEM subjects poses a long-term risk to Australia’s workforce and prosperity, while denying young people the option of em...
Before discovering how to disarm bullies for good, Jonny Shannon thought his physical appearance and learning disorder made him an all too easy target throughout his disrupted secondary schooling.
Teachers and parents are being asked to adopt a new framework for teaching critical consciousness in children through the way they learn to view the books they read.
