The term ‘Metaverse’ was recently unveiled to the world and it both equally excited and confused a lot of people. Whilst not everyone has grasped the concept completely, the metaverse as an enabled, somewhat connected, and immersive digital space is a goal the tech industry has been working towards.
   Several different metaverse environments are still under development. Read more

We should never take teachers for granted, or underestimate the profound impact they have on every student they teach and the future of Australia.
  Along with parents and carers, our teachers guide our children through 13 years of school and prepare them for a world of possibilities. They work with each child as an individual, acknowledging that every child has their own way of understanding.
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The bedtime story is one way reading skills have been built in children, but the tradition is rapidly falling by the wayside as only 25 per cent of Aussie parents now read to their children once a week or not at all.
  Time poverty is one reason as are parents’ own literacy skills, parents indicated that they were nervous about reading to their child because they were not confident in their own reading ability.
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Year 6 students in Perth have invented a device that makes music lessons easier for people with hearing impairments.
  As part of a program run by CSIRO, STEM Professionals in Schools, students at St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls have been learning about Arduino computer coding, which is used to create and control electronic devices, from local IT expert Sheree Pudney who volunteers her own time.
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The shocking but unsurprising revelation that 130 private schools were overfunded by a total of $120 million should shake up Federal and State Education Ministers to unwind past mistakes in how taxpayers’ money is distributed to schools, said Jane Caro.
   “The debacle that is driving inequality in our school system and our society must be addressed – it’s one of the main reasons I am standing in this election." 
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In three years, the cloud has gone from a 'nice-to-have' to a must-have for most educational institutions, and especially for the K–12 public school system.
   With the Cloud powering much of today’s online and hybrid classrooms, the focus for many IT teams in education has shifted towards improving the maturity of their Cloud practices to scale for the future, which is wise as it's hard to know what comes next.
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