Deepfake AI pornography is becoming more common. Gabrielle Hunt and Daryl Higgins look at what parents and schools can do to prevent it. A Victorian school community is reeling after fake, sexually explicit images of female students were generated using artificial intelligence and then shared on...
Some online platforms are starting to measure ‘student engagement’ at school, writes Chris Zomer. Here’s what you need to know. There is increasing concern children are less focused in school. This is often blamed on smartphones and social media. At the same time, there is significant pressure...
Why are they essential to your child’s success in maths? Bronwyn Reid O'Connor and Ben Zunica believe these ideas will give you the tools you need to help your child develop mathematics skills. One of the essential skills students need to master in primary school mathematics...
‘You can learn from this and so can the class’, write researchers Carly Steele and Graeme Gower All Australian teachers need to be able to teach their students about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. It is part of their professional standards and the curriculum...
‘I have been ground down’: about 50% of Australian principals and other school leaders are thinking of quitting. Paul Kidson, Herb Marsh and Theresa Dicke investigate the problem. Australia’s school principals collectively manage nearly 3 million students and staff. But who is responsible for them? Since 2011,...
'No mullets, no mohawks, no ‘awkwardly contrasting colours’. Researcher Kayla Mildren looks at disputes over school uniform policies and why they often involve hair. A Queensland dad recently took his four-year-old son out of the Gold Coast’s A.B. Paterson College because the school had ordered the...
Marilyn Campbell and Elizabeth J Edwards looked at all the recent evidence on mobile phone bans in schools – this is what they found. Mobile phones are currently banned in all Australian state schools and many Catholic and independent schools around the country. This is part...
No more BMI, diets or ‘bad’ foods. Vivienne Lewis looks at what is changing. How many of us recall having to calculate our body-mass index (BMI) as children at school, prompting comparisons of our weight with that of our peers? Or perhaps we remember references to...
Researchers Jenny Gore and Drew Miller look at ways to improve teaching by boosting teachers’ morale and lifting student outcomes at the same time. Australian schools are facing unsustainable pressures. There are almost daily reports of too many students falling behind and not enough teachers to...
Sexism, misogyny and gendered violence are now part of Australia’s national conversation, writes Dr Catherine Smith This article contains references to offensive language Recently, several male students from the elite Yarra Valley Grammar in Melbourne’s east were expelled after they put together a spreadsheet rating the attractiveness...
