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Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
19 October, 2020
03 June, 2020
Last year, UNSW responded to falling enrolments with a proposal to lower entry requirements. With an estimated 80 per cent of teaching now casualised, academics have become itinerant workers. Students have become customers. Teachers report widespread pressure to pass low-grade students but cannot speak of it, fearing reprisal.
Labels:
Education,
Ethical,
Sustainability
18 November, 2019
14 October, 2019
There will be no timetabled classes, no exams and no ATAR at the end of year 12 for students at a new independent high school in Sydney's west. Instead, students at the new CathWest Innovation College, with campuses in Mount Druitt and Emu Plains, will complete two terms of set projects before developing solutions to their problems, building portfolios to apply to university or having the choice to pitch ideas directly to businesses. we're effectively gutting the science rooms and they'll become our makers space with state-of-the-art innovation technology and the classrooms will become design studios where students will do their original work," Ms Larkin said.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education
05 September, 2019
A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test. on Wednesday, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a prominent lab in Seattle, unveiled a new system that passed the test with room to spare. It correctly answered more than 90 percent of the questions on an eighth-grade science test and more than 80 percent on a 12th-grade exam.
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
Education
28 August, 2019
12 August, 2019
Masters — whose draft review of the NSW curriculum is due to be released soon — says teachers should go on as they have been, but closely observe children's critical, creative and problem-solving skills as they go about their tasks. "The downside of giving [these skills] a name is that it makes them sound as though they're different from what's happening and somehow new to the curriculum," he says. "They are not. What's new is we have prioritised them, we've drawn attention to the fact that they are important and perhaps more important than they once were. But we've always expected students to think critically and creatively, to work together and solve problems."
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education
05 August, 2019
Silicon Valley is also keenly interested. In a report in March, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation identified AI as an educational tool worthy of investment. In his 2018 book Rewiring Education, John Couch, Apple’s vice president of education, lauded Squirrel AI. (A Chinese version of the book is coauthored by Squirrel’s founder, Derek Li.) Squirrel also opened a joint research lab with Carnegie Mellon University this year to study personalized learning at scale, then export it globally. But experts worry about the direction this rush to AI in education is taking. At best, they say, AI can help teachers foster their students’ interests and strengths. At worst, it could further entrench a global trend toward standardized learning and testing, leaving the next generation ill prepared to adapt in a rapidly changing world of work.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Big Data,
Education,
Numeracy,
research
02 July, 2019
Starting from the first term of 2020, smartphones will be banned from all classrooms in primary schools and high schools across Victoria. Students will have to leave their phones in their lockers from the first bell until the last, unless they need it for medical reasons (and no, Snapchat streaks don’t count). Phones will also be allowed if the teacher has specifically said students will need them as part of the day’s lesson.
'Cutting-edge': the project that could replace NAPLAN. They would also be adaptive, which means the questions would get harder or easier based on the child's skills. This would give a more accurate, fine-grained picture of how well the child has mastered the skills within that learning progression.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
research
21 May, 2019
High school students will get hands-on experience in SA’s emerging space sector, as companies hope to inspire a new generation into becoming the workforce of the future. Premier Steven Marshall has announced a plan to give students in Years 10 to 12 the opportunity of work experience in a “pilot” scheme set to take off later this year.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Career,
Robotics,
Women in IT
03 May, 2019
30 April, 2019
At Blakehurst High School in the south of Sydney 16 students play 90 minutes of competitive video games after school each week. About 45 minutes is practice and the rest is spent playing the hugely popular battle game "League of Legends" for points, as part of the META High School eSports league (MHSE) run by AFL club Adelaide Crows and game publisher Riot Games. “We have better group communication. Before that we didn’t have connections to some of the students. We have bonded and ask questions about school and help when we struggle with assignments and work." "The buried treasure for teachers is students building confidence in their skills," Mr Hewetson said. "There’s a lot of encouragement when someone pulls something off in the game and that gives a natural lift to everyone.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Education,
Game,
Social
29 April, 2019
As classrooms across the country embrace digital textbooks, one Sydney school has declared the e-book era over and returned to the old-fashioned hard copy version because it improves comprehension and reduces distraction. For the past five years, Reddam House's primary and junior high school classes have used e-textbooks on iPads. But the consistent feedback from the students has been that they preferred pages to screens.
04 April, 2019
03 April, 2019
Yang is running a rather methodical, data-driven, science-happy campaign. He’s applying that approach to more standard-issue problems like labor, climate change, and the economy but giving them a decidedly tech-forward approach: how (and why) we should define robots, what use might geoengineering have in saving the planet, and whether the government should embrace universal basic income and give every American a $1,000 check.
27 March, 2019
The sixth ŠKODA Student Concept Car will be a spectacular pickup version of the ŠKODA KODIAQ. That is the goal of 35 vocational students, among them six young women, who in 2019 will for the first time be using the ŠKODA KODIAQ as the starting point for their Student Car. With expert support from experienced ŠKODA engineers and staff from the Technical Development, Design and Production departments, they are transforming the Czech car manufacturer’s largest SUV into a dynamic, two-door pickup.
20 March, 2019
05 March, 2019
04 March, 2019
Microsoft hasn't lost site of the consumer market entirely with HoloLens. It had Tim Sweeney — CEO of Fortnite maker Epic Games — onstage gushing about the potential of HoloLens and what it could do for gaming as a medium in the future and announced that Unreal Engine 4 support was coming. While HoloLens 2 might be for businesses, HoloLens 3 could potentially be for everyone.
Labels:
3D,
Education,
ICT Capability,
research
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