The growth in eSports during the corona virus lockdown has shown that its' advantages are a positive and it should not be dismissed. Although many sports fans might not realise it, some of the biggest sporting events of the past five years have involved organised competitive...
As Australia emerges from lockdown and adjusts to the reality of social distancing at home, work and in public, a significant number are seeing that the changes of recent weeks have negatively impacted their physical and mental wellness, highlighting the importance of a diligent approach to self-care during the time of COVID-19 and beyond. To understand...
Nikki Rickard writes about the benefits of music education in enhancing not only children’s intellectual development, but also their emotional wellbeing. As always, parents play a key role in encouraging music engagement in children. Music education gives children the foundations for a lifelong love of music,...
Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Kristine Moruzi and Paul Venzo look at books about COVID-19 for kids NSW Health With remarkable speed, numerous children’s books have been published in response to the COVID-19 global health crisis, teaching children about coronavirus and encouraging them to protect themselves and others. Children’s literature...
Acting on medical advice, the Australian Government recommends that schools should remain open at this time. School closures do not appear to be an effective way to prevent community transmission of COVID-19 and there is a low rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases among children relative...
It makes sense to plan for more remote learning, writes Neil Selwyn As many families and schools looked forward to returning to face-to-face teaching, we need to take stock and prepare ourselves for the possibility of further bouts of remote home schooling. The gradual reopening of schools...
In the series, Better Teachers, Claire Brown, explores how to improve teacher education in Australia. She looks at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to raise the status of the profession and measure and improve teacher quality. “I’m just so bad...
Scott Beattie, looks into a very topical modern game that has an all too serious theme Before we lived with the reality of a global disease outbreak, Pandemic was just the title of a popular series of board games. In the time leading up to the...
As schools resume for most Australian students, a new group of parents have emerged, write Rebecca English and Karleen Gribble. These parents have decided to give home education a longer-term try, finding their children have improved academically and benefited from the calmer home learning environment. This change...
Girls consistently outperform boys on reading tests – and have done so for several decades around the world, write Louis Volante and Francesca Borgonovi Lack of motivation, a weak vocabulary, poor reading engagement and lack of role models have all been considered possible reasons for this...
