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Five ways technology will transform education Technology has always been seen as a silver bullet when it comes to disrupting or completely transforming traditional industries. Human potential ­­– the way we share, connect, buy, sell, travel –  is so closely associated with big leaps in technology, that many are waiting to see what learning will look like by 2030. 

Generous grants mark National Science Week Forensic science, ocean sustainability and pop-up health lab projects are among those being funded by the Government’s 2020 National Science Week Grants.

Read good material for the most benefit Reading is good but reading quality stuff is better, magazines and websites present everyday concepts with regular vocabulary which makes for valuable reading practice but interesting, innovative material makes the reader push themselves and develop their cognition.

Building a curriculum that includes students with vision impairment The first national curriculum for students with a vision impairment could be rolled out in schools across Australia soon with trials taking place in schools later this year.

Stolen Generations grants further Indigenous knowledge in schools There has been a national shift in perception around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and this is being driven, in part, by more Indigenous knowledge at the school level. Towards that schools can now apply for grants of up to $500 to access stolen generations teaching material.

Handwriting vital to literacy Despite a tech heavy education sector good old fashioned hand writing is looking to be an essential part of learning and a shift to paperless schools does not have strong empirical research to back it.

Code Jumper teaches blind kids to code Code Jumper assists 7-11 year olds, regardless of their level of vision, to learn the basics of computer coding and programming skills.

Maximising impact on student learning: high effect size strategies in a science classroom As an early career teacher, more so than experienced teachers, you are exposed to numerous teaching practices that all work to enable greater student learning. It creates a problem – they can’t all be implemented at once, but how do we know which practices we should be using and which will work best?  

Meet the Maasai woman fighting to keep girls in school Humanitarian and social activist Dr  Kakenya Ntaiya tours Australia, celebrating International Women’s Day, March 2-9

Education top target for malware You’ve heard of software as a service but guess what? There’s also malware as a service, bad actors can hire malicious bits of code and they’re on their way to a nasty spamming or Trojan campaign, great.

Using AI to set students straight and streamline assessment The thing about plagiarism or maybe paying someone else to write your paper for you is that it is counter-productive. So a student might have managed to pull a fast one and perhaps received a good mark but it’s kind of self-defeating in that they will not have learned much.

Minors can get booze online easily, fast and cheap The internet has broken down may barriers including those that stand between minors and alcohol. Buy now pay later services are also removing monetary barriers to obtaining booze.