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 […]
Google has released what it calls “a guide to activating technology in schools”. Intended to assist teachers and ICT administrators, the guide is organised by a ‘5-step approach to deploying a digital education solution’: Defining your goals Investing in Internet access Building your team Offering web tools Managing the change […]
An innovative Kiwi is about to teach astronomy to blind students with the help of 3D printer technology. It will be a first for New Zealand’s education system with a pilot programme set to launch this year. Designer and entrepreneur Arturo Pelayo is the brains behind Tactile Astronomy, a […]
Do you think academics will forever be dismissed by their students as uncool and out of touch? Think again, because 2015 could be the year that wearable technology enters the classroom. That’s according to lecturers at the University of Glasgow who have taken part in one of the […]
A $130,000 Rotary grant has enabled a Far North education trust to expand a revolutionary internet-based teaching system across the region. Paihia School, Kawakawa School and Northland College will join a group of low-decile schools leading the introduction of ‘digital classrooms’ when they open at the start of […]
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 […]
RM Unify is a new, simpler way to work in the cloud and Isometric Solutions is bringing the solution to the New Zealand education market. Features of the RM Unify Launch Pad include supporting services such as Google, Office 365, Sumdog, Mathletics, Clickview, and Moodle. It also enables […]
Disney is launching a new line of learning tools designed to help parents encourage kids 3 to 8 to learn outside of school. Disney Imagicademy begins with a series of mobile apps but will later expand into other products such as books and interactive toys. Over time, the […]
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 […]
Wow, what some marvellous Minecrafters you are! Thanks to everyone who entered our Minecraft competition. We set you the task of creating a structure in the game, based on accuracy and neatness of construction, complexity of design, and appropriate use of materials. You blew us away with your […]
