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The King’s School ‘Write of Passage’ Project

In a progressive move, The King’s School has partnered with two local businesses to ensure their students become well-rounded individuals, ready for any future.

The Year 9 students are using newly integrated Internet Communications Technology & voice-to-text Artificial Intelligence technology to interview local Arcare Oatland’s aged care residents on their lives and create personalised memoir books to present at Grandparent’s …

2018 National Information Technology Conference

I’ll be speaking at the National Information Technology Conference NITC in Colombo Sri Lanka on 2-4 October 2018.

I’m a published writer and while doing my Communication degree recently I discovered a new application for integrating Internet Communication technology ICT and Artificial Intelligence AI.

Every industry is being affected by advancements in technology now. And we see every day in …

Youth ill-health linked to 2011 anomaly

Professor Jean Twenge presented over 20 years of studies on 12-24 year olds, being over 11 million people, and determines the sudden increase in youth depression and health issues relate to an anomaly from 2011.

Last Thursday at the Opera House I saw Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University and author of iGen, along …

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 dates and places, …

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 the …

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 …

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.

Parents, Grandparents …