Last week the New South Wales government announced schools are scheduled to re-open in October 2021. While face-to-face learning undoubtedly has benefits for both children and parents, the announcement left unanswered a series of important questions about how this can be done safely. By the time...
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards can push the envelope a little too far, as Kylie Ladd discovered. At the preschool my children attend, there is a rather touching Mother’s Day and Father’s Day tradition: personalised cards. No, not the standard gloopy-handprints-and-generic-poem version, but one based...
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Schools aims to enrich the cinema experience for younger viewers. The 2021 program will be available in full online on the festival’s digital platform MIFF Play from 2 to 16 September; each film can be booked for $35 (incl. GST) per...
Are you schooling remotely and finding 'Hey Siri' is becoming the teacher? Is Google doing all the work for you and your child? Searching online has many educational benefits, Renee Morrison reports. For instance, one study found students who used advanced online search strategies also had...
While all schools are part of their local community, some are developing partnerships and sharing spaces to become hubs for school-community connections. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in 2020, the staff at Doveton College in Melbourne picked up the phone. “Our staff made over...
Researchers say they have the evidence for what works in schools, but that doesn’t mean everyone uses it By June 2020, the COVID-19 crisis had forced schools to close in 188 countries, disrupting the learning of more than 1.7 billion children. The OECD estimated the impact...
Their brain must also adapt to the context, writes John Munro Research during the first phase of remote teaching in Victoria reported some students found the workload “too high”, missed interactions with peers, felt their thinking ability was impaired, and reported a difficulty coping with study...
But we can learn from the real thing, writes Nicole (Nikki) Brunker. Adding to the clamour of argument over whether schools should be open to all during lockdown is confusion in terminology. Using the term “home schooling” to describe schooling during lockdown is disrespectful to both...
Students won’t get through all school content while learning at home, reports Alison Willis As children learn from home, parents are effectively running two schedules – work and school. Some children may not be able to get through all the work their school assigns in the...
So much is expected of schools these days. How often do we hear ‘This should be taught in school’? write Dr Ginni Mansberg and Jo Lamble Parent pressure We are seeing an increase in the number of parents who have leadership aspirations for their teenager and, as...
