Technology

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.

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.

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.

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.

Winners announced for Flatten the Curve Hackathon Over 48 hours of intense, white knuckle hacking more than 2400 competitors from 10 different time zones formed teams and set out to solve some of the biggest challenges our nation and world face during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Activities from fintech experts downloadable The Girls4Tech™ program which has been designed to encourage girls into STEAM has made available a suite of educational resources built on global science and math standards.

Wireless solution provides reliable Internet speeds to 1 Gbps Two very different schools – one in country Victoria and another in Melbourne’s inner east – faced the same problem; a shortfall in Internet reliability which was compromising their increasingly IT dependent teaching approach.

Walls of enrichment with STEAM enhancing Nanoleaf We’re a visual species and the kids doubly so, but time spent on the screens should be limited and one way of doing that is by giving them something else to look at.

UniSA confident SA schools can transition to online education UniSA’s Head of School: Education, Prof Shane Dawson, believes this will be a challenging period for teachers, students and parents alike, but says the broad ambition of delivering an online curriculum for the majority of the State’s school students is achievable.

Can schools' IT hold up? In Australia we’re quite lucky as schools are well positioned and have been delivering edge use cases of distance, digital and remote schooling requirements for some years now.

CompTIA clarifies IT career paths The IT industry is one of the healthiest and entry into it has the benefit of being skills based, the age of entry isn’t so important and clear pathways to in-demand jobs are accessible.