Experts help future app developers

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published February 23, 2016

It's a rare and rewarding feeling for a teacher to sit back and observe their class operating like a well oiled machine, answering their own questions, helping each other, and wonder if the students really need them anymore.

New Town High School students are hard at work designing their own apps.

This is the feeling Chris Deeley has when he watches his app design students working diligently through his carefully designed ...

This story appeared in the March 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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