From 45 that applied, 16 schools have been chosen by N4l for the ‘Pioneer School’ programme. They have been selected for their “diversity in roll size, age group, geographic location, socio-demographic and the variety of technologically confident staff they have on board”, according to the company. The schools […]
A Labour Government will modernise New Zealand’s schools and close the digital divide by ensuring all students in Years 5-13 have access to a portable computer in the classroom and their home, Labour Leader David Cunliffe says. “The world has changed but our schools haven’t. “The average age […]
Nine students from Mana College, Porirua, have been recognised and congratulated by Education Minister Hekia Parata for their efforts in successfully graduating from a Microsoft-led IT training programme at their school. The Minster presented the students with graduation certificates for the Microsoft IT Academy’s ‘Microsoft Office Specialist’ course […]
A new flagship ‘free school’ in the UK is planning to replace teachers with computers for some day-to-day lessons. One of England’s biggest academy chains – Ark Schools – wants to set up a new ‘blended learning’ model – which will see children taught over the internet for […]
Schools are increasingly putting students under closed-circuit television surveillance to cut bullying. The practice is suggested in new Ministry of Education bullying prevention guidelines – and some schools have already put cameras near toilet blocks after learning bullied children were avoiding them for fear of getting bashed. One […]
Six months after Massey Primary became the first school to connect to Network for Learning’s Managed Network more than 500 schools have now joined N4L, representing over 157,000 students. “N4L is well on track to achieve its target of connecting 700 schools in 2014 and are now working to a new projection of […]
A new, simpler way to work in the cloud has arrived. Isometric Solutions is bringing RM Unify to the NZ education market – and is asking schools to register their interest. “RM Unify enables your school to access online services easily with just one user name and password […]
In the last issue, we announced the three winners of the Toshiba Portégé Z10t competition: Jo Day, of Churchill Park School; Ngaire Addis, of Havelock North High School; and Marije Knevel, of Lyall Bay School. Each received a Portégé Z10t for their classroom. However, this was a two-part […]
A ‘super computer’ has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the Turing test, experts have said. Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if they could fool people into thinking they were humans during […]
As many as 600 technology support officers working in public high schools across New South Wales will lose their jobs at the end of June after funding for the national digital education revolution program dries up. The former Labor Government announced the $1 billion DER program in 2007, […]
Attending an all-girls college can keep women on the technology track, a panel of women investors and executives said at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Summit in the United States. The panelists at the Women & Tech Next Wave session in Sausalito said that being in a same-sex academic […]
The Mind Lab by Unitec recently launched a new Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice (Digital & Collaborative Learning) qualification. To celebrate the launch, HP New Zealand is offering 10 $1,000 scholarships towards the cost of the course for teachers wishing to participate in the programme and enhance their digital […]
