• ChatGPT PhD

    Justin Zobel     |      May 23, 2023

    The widespread availability of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies pose a profound challenge to many aspects of human life, not least the ability of academics to maintain the honesty and integrity of PhD research.

  • A lesson in courage

    Kristina Hook     |      January 11, 2023

    Russia’s army has kidnapped Ukrainian children and targeted Ukraine’s schools in its efforts to eradicate the nation, but Ukraine’s teachers and school children remain determined to carry on their education regardless.

  • Higher education in the age of AI

    Michelle Lazarus     |      January 8, 2023

    Asking ChatGPT – a bot which scrapes the internet to compile conversational answers using artificial intelligence – about the future of artificial intelligence unsurprisingly suggests that artificial intelligence will be the next big thing.

  • Teaching resilience in schools

    Open Forum     |      February 7, 2022

    Clinicians are calling for coping and social skills training and more extra-curricular activities in schools to help prevent increasing mental health problems in children, according to a new study.

  • Lessons for children from 2021

    Open Forum     |      January 1, 2022

    Three educational experts from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education review another year of disrupted education and what we’ll need to do next to ensure children don’t suffer long term impacts from school closures due to COVID 19.

  • Supporting children at school

    Open Forum     |      November 24, 2021

    New technology from the University of South Australia is helping to ensure children are better monitored and supported throughout their school education.

  • Teachers’ commitment shines through

    Umesh Sharma     |      October 7, 2020

    An international study suggests that despite the many challenges, schools and teachers have responded with creativity and flexibility to providing inclusive education during the COVID crisis.

  • Why a learner profile makes more sense than the ATAR

    David Geelan     |      August 2, 2020

    Broadening the ways we measure and represent the outcomes of the senior years of schooling has the potential to broaden our vision of school itself.

  • Education in extreme times

    David Browning     |      June 17, 2020

    While the desire for a return to business-as-usual – or curriculum-as-usual – is understandable, COVID-19 is an opportunity for educators to re-think the relationship between school and life.

  • Education technology and student privacy

    Lisa Archbold     |      May 16, 2020

    COVID-19 has highlighted the increasing growth of education technology or EdTech, but more legal reform is needed for children’s privacy as they learn online.

  • The world becomes our classroom

    Brendan Hitchens     |      May 1, 2020

    Educators and government have long talked about 21st Century learning, but COVID-19 presents an opportunity to reevaluate our attitudes to modern education – right here, right now.

  • A brave new world of education

    Amanda Heffernan     |      April 22, 2020

    The global pandemic has changed the way we think about schools, communities, and society as a whole – and will continue to do so for some time.