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Art on the brain
Art on the brain
Teaching primary school kids about the brain through art Primary school students around Australia are being encouraged to think about how amazing their brains are through a national art competition.
Be cyber secure at home
Be cyber secure at home
Home learning cyber attacks up by 667% The rapid move to home learning could be a cyber security threat with the risk of ransomware, phishing and other cyber-attacks.
Changes changes
Changes changes
COVID-19 Impact: Year 12 ATAR calculation will change Year 12 students will receive an ATAR university entrance rank in 2020 but assessment authorities will have to change how scores are calculated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Online resources from AM
Online resources from AM
‘Inside out’ museum Through the new portal ‘Australian Museum Inside Out’, the Australian Museum (AM), the nation’s first, has opened its doors virtually.
Direction needed
Direction needed
Device use needs direction  The questions should centre on how to use digital devices in a positive way.
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe deeply and give voice to your career Your voice reveals a lot about you and it can help, or hinder, your career. The key to a confident, clear voice is all in the way that you’re breathing and you’re probably not doing it right.
Intentionality
Intentionality
An Engine of Intentionality: How consciously informed agency defies the odds Socioeconomic disadvantage does not mean low achievement.
Adam Inder, BSc; MTeach
Say hi AI
Say hi AI
A ready-made curriculum for teaching AI AI is the next disruptive technology, maybe the most disruptive of all, it’s already touching and revolutionising pretty much everything from marking papers to finding your way around town.
Invitational education
Invitational education
Making systems theories work through an invitational framework The purpose of this paper is to share theories of practice that have guided reform at Clarkson Community High School in Western Australia.  
John S Young, Principal Clarkson Community High School
Data needs a home
Data needs a home
New approaches to teaching: How data is driving enhanced personalisation Teachers are now utilising student data to curate personalised lesson plans and assess student performance.
Joseph Badaoui, Data Engineer at Digital Realty
Scientists on tap
Scientists on tap
New ANSTO STEAM Club sees great response Kids like STEAM if the results of the ANSTO new online STEAM Club are anything to go by, over 1000 subscribed within days of its launch in time for the school holidays.
Next gen programmers needed
Next gen programmers needed
GitHub needs help nurturing the next generation of programmers Sam Hunt VP APAC of GitHub says, “code is the paintbrush of the 21st century”, and he wants people to get involved.