If you are a busy, inquiring educator, who enjoys face-to-face opportunities for professional development, check out the CORE Education Breakfast Seminars and Workshops programme for 2015. Breakfast Seminars and Workshops have been running successfully in New Zealand’s five main centres for a number of years now, and a […]
Nineteen organisations have joined forces to mark today’s Safer Internet Day in New Zealand as Kiwis report an increasing array of internet harms, reports organiser NetSafe. Safer Internet Day is celebrated worldwide to encourage the safe and positive use of the internet and digital technologies, especially among families and young people. In 2015, […]
A former KPMG accountant aims to create financially-savvy students after developing virtual banking tool Banqer, writes Lee Suckling. Kendall Flutey was inspired to create Banqer – a virtual banking tool for teaching financial literacy in the classroom – when visiting her family home one day. “My brother is […]
A month before Anzac Day, the last in a series of virtual field trip plans to give students the opportunity to think critically and creatively about the nation’s past, writes Wayne Erb. Last year, students from Hira School, near Nelson, were studying the First World War. They joined […]
The Mind Lab by Unitec continues to champion digital learning for teachers with new opportunities in 2015. It’s opening new centres in Gisborne and Wellington, and a partnership with the NEXT Foundation is offering teacher scholarships, writes Melissa Fincham. Hot on the heels of announcing a partnership with […]
It’s a tough gig being a school leader in today’s modern learning environment. And that means there’s never been a time in education with a greater need for wise and strategic leadership, writes Carolyn Stuart. Make no mistake we’re living in a time of great change. It’s always […]
Computing is the most popular school subject in a new poll of pupils while their parents were more likely to name English as their favourite lesson. Nearly one in four (24 per cent) children aged between six and 12-years old said that computing and technology are the subjects […]
Bellevue West student Tyler Grafft is in the middle of a high school competition, and he’s just scored for his team…by finding two unauthorized users that weren’t supposed to be on a computer. In this competition, there are no cheering fans, screaming parents, pep bands or PA announcers. […]
You no longer need a floppy disk drive to play old school computer games. Nearly 2,400 MS-DOS games are now available online thanks to Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital history library. Gamers can travel The Oregon Trail, find treasure with Indiana Jones and explore the sunken Titanic, the San Francisco […]
The Mind Lab by Unitec has announced it’s partnering with the NEXT Foundation to deliver 800 scholarships for teachers to undertake postgraduate study in digital and collaborative learning. The Foundation is also providing a grant to research the impact of the qualification. The scholarships will allow more teachers to […]
Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye has announced that CORE Education has been chosen to deliver the Ministry of Education’s new Learning Technologies Advisory (LTA) Service. A total of $5 million will be invested in the service over three years, starting in 2015. “This service is about helping teachers take advantage […]
Fifteen pioneering Kiwi teachers have been selected to join a global community of 800 educators as part of the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Programme. Each year, Microsoft selects people who are creatively using technology and want to share their experience and successes with other teachers. “The Microsoft […]
