Got the best road safety game idea? Gather your team, make it happen and win! Organised by the NZ Transport Agency, the Game Design Competition 2016 is open to Year 7-13 students and runs through Terms 1 and 2. It provides an authentic context for students to […]
Applications close soon for the March intake of the Mind Lab by Unitec’s ‘Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice (Digital & Collaborative Learning). Make sure you get in quick to secure your spot on this 32-week part-time programme taking place in Auckland, Gisborne, Wellington, Christchurch, Rotorua and Whangarei. PLUS, […]
As part of our ‘The Challenge of Change‘ feature, ACTIVboard’s Murray Thoms assesses what needs to happen before change. “Before spending any money, I would recommend that schools complete an audit of their existing ICT assets, as part of an overall visioning process, giving staff a clear picture […]
BYOD? MLE? 3D Printing? Robotics? Chromebooks? Flipping? Coding? Whatever’s on your tech radar, you’ll find it at INTERFACEXpo 2016. If you make the ICT decisions for your school (or are part of the decision-making process) this is a day not to be missed, with presentations, workshops, an exhibition, and […]
Are you using 3D printing in your classroom? If so, we want to hear from you for an upcoming ‘special issue’ on 3D printing. We want you to tell us about your experiences using this type of teaching solution. Just get in touch with INTERFACE Editor Greg Adams […]
EduTECH International Congress and Expo 2016 is being held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 30 May to 1 June. It consists of one large exhibition and eight parallel conferences, and is your chance to attend Asia-Pacific’s and the Southern Hemisphere’s largest education event. Keynote speakers include […]
Last year was my first teaching robotics. We began a Robotic Club using EV3 Lego Mindstorms, which quickly found its legs and became firmly established across the Preparatory School. It was a fantastic learning experience; the children were enthralled, writes Briony Marks, St Andrew’s College, Christchurch. We began with […]
Can a kid succeed in school with only a mobile device for Internet access at home? Lorena Uribe doesn’t have to think about that one: “Absolutely not,” she says. When her old computer broke down several years ago, she and her teenage daughter found themselves in a bind for about […]
Successful Principals collaborate, communicate and share responsibility with teachers, staff and Principals of other schools, positively impacting their own school and further afield. However, successful collaboration relies on a number of factors, including vitally important professional development, and too often this is overlooked in light of more pressing […]
Twenty-nine organisations are joining forces today to mark 2016’s Safer Internet Day in New Zealand as Kiwis report an increasing number of incidents involving internet harms, says online safety and security organisation NetSafe. Safer Internet Day is celebrated worldwide to encourage the safe and positive use of the internet […]
A refugee whose family made a perilous journey across eastern Europe to escape the Nazis has seen her life transformed into an educational computer game. Students from Glasgow Caledonian University have teamed up with Gathering the Voices, an organisation that collects the stories of survivors who settled in […]
Florida high school student Brooke Stewart would gladly swap two required foreign language classes to become fluent in JavaScript or Python, the coding languages she uses to design computer games. Lawmakers in her state have sparked national debate by considering whether to provide that option. A measure championed […]
