Victorian schools now have the power to ban aggressive and violent parents from entering school grounds to protect students and staff.
   The Education and Training Reform Amendment (Protection of School Communities) Bill 2021, delivers on a key recommendation from the 2018 Protective Schools Ministerial Taskforce and will help empower authorised persons, such as school principals, to issue School Community Safety Orders. Read more

Here’s an analogy: imagine you meet someone for the first time. The front cover is their physical appearance, and we know not to judge by that.
   The blurb is what other people have said about them, and this can’t always be trusted either.
   But the moment they speak to you, the second their voice springs into the air and lands in your ears – that’s the opening line.
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The volume of information available is the internet’s strong point, editing out the bad stuff is not.
   And with teens spending the equivalent of a working week online there is plenty of opportunity for misinformation to spread, causing polarisation, decreased trust in public institutions and compromising democracy.
   Fifteen-year-olds’ total online consumption has risen to 35 hours per week in PISA 2018. Read more

Learning to learn is important if you want to do well academically and while self-regulation is tricky, AI might be able to help.
   Software made by an international group of universities – The FLoRA project – will help to track students’ learning habits, identifying areas that need work and generating learning scaffolds for each towards improving their self-regulation around learning. The software will be an add on to widely used digital learning environments. Read more

3D printing has inspired a new generation of learners by combining problem-solving skills with technical skills, creativity, and innovation.
   However, the benefits of 3D printing aren’t limited to students, and teachers have much to gain by introducing 3D printing into their lesson plans.
    There are seven key ways teachers can benefit from 3D printing.
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Swinburne University of Technology is guaranteeing that every undergraduate student will receive work integrated learning and real industry experience during their degree from 2021.
   The expansion of Swinburne’s existing Work Integrated Learning program comes as Swinburne launches its new strategic direction.
  Around 92 per cent of Swinburne graduates gain full-time employment. Read more