Love teaching? Love technology? HP is offering educators across New Zealand the opportunity to combine both passions through the new HP Education Ambassador programme for teachers. And there’s still time to do it as the entry date has been extended to the end of May. HP is looking […]
There’s still time to book your place at INTERFACEXpo 2015 in Christchurch, Tauranga or Auckland. There are just a few places left. So, if you want to come along, don’t delay. If you make the ICT decisions for your school, this is one day in the year you […]
Issue 99 – Term 2, May 2020 INTERFACE NEWS AND VIEWS NOTICEBOARD THE MIND LAB: Education after lockdown ETV: Overcoming the tyranny of distance learning MOTAT.FUN: Supporting remote learning for young Kiwis. ARE WE GOING TO LEARN FROM THE LOCKDOWN? Educators rising to the challenge and delivering digital learning. […]
After months of waiting, Microsoft finally has a proper name for Windows 10’s new web browser: Forget Project Spartan, and meet Micrisoft Edge. It still has the same flat, minimalist look you saw at the start of the year, as well as clever features like Cortana voice commands […]
A pilot programme in the US is bringing internet access at home to students. Green Bay Area Public School District said more and more of its curriculum is based online. “A lot of our classes are going paperless, a lot of the technology is just becoming intertwined with […]
After a year’s hard work from students at Alfriston College (right), a new exhibition was opened at Auckland War Memorial Museum: Gallipoli in Minecraft. Working in collaboration with museum staff and assisted by teacher Mark Sutherland, they utilised its First World War collections to re-create the landscape of […]
HP has launched its Rural Schools Competition for the second year, giving rural New Zealand primary schools the chance to win a share of $20,000 worth of HP products and support. It’s again partnering with Rural Women New Zealand offering rural primary schools the chance to enter the […]
A headteachers group has threatened to report parents who let their children play 18-rated games to the police and social services for neglect. Nantwich Education Partnership, a group of 14 primary and two secondary schools in Cheshire, wrote to parents last month after finding some children had been […]
Minecraft will be given to secondary schools in Northern Ireland as part of a project organised by the annual CultureTECH festival and funded by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure. The hugely popular building-block game will be supplied to 200 schools and 30 libraries and community organisations, which […]
N4L (Network for Learning) has been named a finalist for two categories in the New Zealand’s Hi-Tech Awards. Managed Network – Finalist for Best Public Sector Technology Solution Specifically designed for schools, and built to accommodate 800,000+ connections, the Managed Network provides fast and predictable internet with uncapped […]
Award winning digital and creative education lab, The Mind Lab by Unitec achieved a double last week. A new lab was officially opened in Wellington by Hon Steven Joyce – and it was unveiled as a finalist in the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards last night as one of the country’s […]
While the whole of New Zealand has been rightly obsessing over the Cricket world cup over the past few weeks, a group of primary school girls in Northland have been learning some valuable skills for future careers with the help of another kind of cricket; namely, a clever […]
