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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.

Bushfire affected students to receive $2M in support Victorian and Commonwealth Government jointly fund a ‘Getting Kids Back to School’ initiative to provide immediate relief to bushfire victims.

Oral language skills predict young children's success in the classroom and life Communication, curiosity and conversation are key predictors of young children’s success later in life, according to new best practice resources on early childhood education launched in Brisbane this week.

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.

Bullying is universal and worst for low SES boys Bullying happens all over the world and the same group of people suffers from it the worst. Adolescent boys from lower socio-economic backgrounds are most likely to be the victims of bullying, but there is a wide variation in prevalence.

Training lets young teachers thrive in challenging environments Inspiring Torres Strait Islanders with English as a second language is part of the toolkit for a new breed of teachers trained to work in Australia’s most challenging and remote classrooms.

Wakakirri Story Dance on track for a spectacular 2020 Wakakirri is 28 years young and still growing strongly. Australia’s largest performing arts event for schools welcomed 38,000 students from almost 300 schools performing in 52 shows at 14 venues nationally in 2019.

The issue of engagement The process of learning to cooperate with others begins very early in life – often it is a sandpit experience. A term I often use when asked what I do is that “I teach people how to play nicely in the sandpit”.

Educator Impact Pulse measures ongoing school and student wellbeing In 1961, John F Kennedy announced a goal for humans to walk on the moon. At about the same time, an industrialist called Henry Kremer announced a series of prizes worth $2.5m in today’s dollars, for a seemingly more modest goal: to fly under human power, over the English Channel.

Delivering Project Based Learning Having students engage with real world problems with project based learning is one of the better ways of delivering knowledge and encouraging soft skills like communication and cooperation. It can take many forms and some help in formulating a PBL initiative has to be welcome.

Capture them young! Engaging students with technology Integrating technology across the curriculum and offering clubs and events like ‘Coding & Robotics’, Inter-house Robotics Competition, STEMies and 'TechMate', inspires students to create with technology.

Prof Pasi Sahlberg to debate the power of play in nature Finnish educator Professor Pasi Sahlberg will be keynote speaker at a free public forum on the Power of Play in Nature at The Concourse, Chatswood on Thursday 5 March.