For Principals, Educators and Network Administrators
Education Technology Solutions (ETS) magazine is Australia’s leading education technology publication. This is the official Education Technology Solutions magazine website and it features a selection of articles from the current and previous issues of the print magazine, along with some ‘web-only’ content. We trust that you will find this site a useful resource as well as a forum to […]
By Mal Lee. What should schools, their principals and education authorities do when they recognise the ‘Rudd monies’ are spent? What do they do if their laptop lease expires this year? What lessons should be learnt from the ‘Digital Education Revolution’ (DER) experience? The answer, I suggest, lies in recognising – if it is not […]
By Shelley Kinash, Kayleen Wood and Matthew McLean. In a teaching environment where there is always a new tool proclaimed as a necessary part of the educator’s repertoire because it promises to enhance student learning, ePortfolios are a relatively recent entrant. What is an ePortfolio? As the name suggests, it is a portfolio that is […]
By Ashley Wells. The final report of the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling, released earlier this year, recognises that technology is one of the key drivers of school funding. Ashley Wells is the education practice leader at government relations firm Hawker Britton. He discusses what the Gonski Review, and the Government’s policy response, will […]
By John Bigelow. The use of video is becoming an increasingly important part of many school curriculums. Ten years ago, a school assignment was something a student wrote. Now, it is not uncommon to find students handing in assignments that have been completed as a video project. Take, for example, an assignment about the school’s […]
By Eric Schreefel. Teachers are always on the look out for great resources. The fantastic thing about the web is that, over the last decade, an absolute plethora of online resources have emerged which has given rise to a new challenge. The difficulty is no longer in finding teaching resources; it is in sorting the […]
By Gary Bass. As a teacher of science, with an interest in geophysics, I have been fascinated with the availability of real time data about the earth. Geography is the school subject where students can take the opportunity to investigate and observe human interactions with the function and features of the earth. For example, by […]
