Thousands of Australian teachers who participated in a program to support the teaching of the subject Digital Technologies in the classroom have shown improved digital skills and confidence.
   ACARA’s Digital Technologies in focus (DTiF) project was a 4-year program, funded by the Australian Government, designed to upskill teachers and support them to teach Digital Technologies.
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Wakakirri is now a festival that celebrates diversity and puts a spotlight on what schools are saying rather than focussing on who is the best.
   Wakakirri gives students a voice to creatively share and express their experiences, feelings, values and attitudes. Every school has a different story to tell and a different way to tell it, plus there are the ‘behind the scenes’ stories to tell.
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Two years of remote learning have stretched the capacity of schools’ technology frameworks.
   Jumping in and out of remote learning has meant schools needed systems that would scale during busy periods and were underpinned by a reliable, flexible technological capability as classes went online.
   The potential of the cloud has been hinted at but there is always hesitance to do something new. Read more

A teacher colleague invested a lot of time teaching her Year 3 students that thinking, feeling and behaving were all interconnected. As Albert Ellis, creator of REBT said (I paraphrase here):
   ‘We make ourselves more anxious than we need to be when we think events and things are worse than they really are.’
   As it turns out her students were guilty of doing just that. 
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A combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict have resulted in global poverty rising for the first time in two decades. One in 10 people around the world live in extreme poverty on less than $1.90 per day, 821 million people do not have enough food to eat.
   It’s vitally important that our students become aware of these issues and feel motivated and able to take action. Read more

The $50,000 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools was presented to Mr Scott Graham, Head of Agriculture at Barker College (NSW).
   His initiatives have seen interest in his subject jump and many of his students go on to study science at university.
   Graham is changing the way agricultural science is taught at secondary schools with a third of his students continuing to study the subject at uni. Read more