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Uber Model for Education & Wellbeing

When schools use technology a student’s world can open up, everyone becomes a teacher and learning environments are anywhere. Schools are much more efficient and young people are engaged in relevant and personalised knowledge development.

Uber is an online platform that enables anyone with a car to help another person physically get from A to B. Mutually beneficial, the driver has ...

Writing formula: Fact, Fill, Feel

This formula will help stimulate your brain when thinking about past events by focusing on:

FACT: The actual facts of whom, when and where

FILL: Fill in the details of the physical scene and the characters involved

FEEL: Your perception of people, places and events using anecdotal stories

With the ‘Fact, Fill, Feel’ Formula, start with the basic facts of ...

TEDxSydney Humankind - sharing ideas & stories

Another hugely successful TEDx Sydney conference showcased Australians leading the world with innovations, insights, and rare talents at ICC last Friday 15 June 2018.

The theme this year was Humankind and speakers wove this thread through their presentations. 

Brain surgeon and bionics pioneer Thomas Oxleydemonstrated a tiny stent that can be inserted into a main blood vessel in ...

EduTech 2018 School Marketing Masterclass

This week’s EduTech School Marketing Masterclass, run by American school marketing academic, author and high school teacher Dr Arnaud Prevot, highlighted the need for schools to capture and share their school’s ‘stories’.

Dr Prevot reiterated that all marketing should be authentic communication, and a never-ending process of making the school experience better for everyone involved, even after people have left ...

Meet me at EduTech: S19

The Family Book Project will exhibit at the EduTech conference 7&8 June at ICC Sydney.

The Family Book Project is an online program to empower students to collect family and community stories into printable digital books for education, culture development and fund raising.

Do you know the life stories of your parents, grandparents or ancestors? Where did they come from ...

3 Steps to Making Kids Human

Human-centric skills will be in high demand when robots and automation take most future jobs.

Human skills like: Reason, Evaluation, Intuition & Strategy

So, we need to make sure we are nurturing these vital human skills.

Three steps to making kids human.

1. Family

The family unit is the first exposure kids have to learn the survival skills needed in their environment ...

Schools-business collaboration recommended – Gonski report

School-business collaboration and extra-curricular activities are effective forms of engagement to help achieve student learning growth, a major education review, overseen by David Gonski, reported.

The review, Through Growth to Achievement – Report of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools, by The Department of Education and Training, included submissions and feedback from almost 300 education organisations ...

Saving memories and building empathy

I attended Tim England’s ‘The Facts About Dementia’ yesterday. What wonderful work he is doing in the Ku-ring-gai area, educating the public on dementia, helping families with respite services and lobbying for dementia friendly communities.

The statistics of a new case being diagnosed every 6 minutes is horrifying, but the fact that many people and families suffer in silence, with no ...

Future Schools conference - The Family Book Project

Bookform’s Family Book Project program was introduced to educators at the Future Schools conference in Melbourne last week.

Schools from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia saw Principals, teachers, and Technology educators network with the education department, industry thought leaders and each other to research the latest in teaching and ‘EduTech’ Digital Technologies.

Digital Technologies will be a compulsory component of the ...