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Young & Old Feel Valuable and Engaged

While some Arcare residents were too emotional to speak, most couldn’t stop smiling and saying that they never expected the ‘Write of Passage’ project to have such a positive effect on them.

Even Arcare Community Engagement Manager, Rachel Aqualina said, “This project far exceeded all of our expectations. We knew that the residents would enjoy the socialisation, but the friendships ...

World Teacher’s Day awards King’s & Tangara for Bookform pilots

The King’s School and Tangara Girls School teachers were recognised by the Minister for Education at a World Teachers’ Day ceremony on Friday 26 October.

The Teachers’ Guild of New South Wales hosted the 2018 World Teachers’ Day celebration to present awards for outstanding professional contributions to education made by a select group of teachers.

The Teachers’ Guild NSW President, Dr ...

EduTech Singapore 8-10 Oct 2018

EduTech Singapore collected educators from around the globe to discuss best-practice for future-proofing young people for unknown digital futures and multiple careers.

Life-long learning was a common theme, reiterating the need for teachers to accept co-learning environments, where everyone (including the teacher) is open to trialing, failing, collaborating, creating, and technology is a tool to leverage usual abilities.

The overwhelming ...

Developing Emotional Intelligence - Sri Lanka NITC speech

How are you going to be competitive going into the future? And not just you personally, but your company and even your country. What is the next competitive advantage in technology?

I’m Carey Furze. Thank you for inviting me to speak at your ICT conference this year. I’m grateful to be a part of the ICT conversation, especially in this ...

Alan Cooper on ‘Ancestry Thinking’: keeping tech on our side

Last night Alan Cooper led a fireside chat with a crowd of technology designers hosted by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Sydney. 

IxDA is a global community focused on nurturing and developing expertise in the discipline of interaction design. Bringing together a community of people who are committed to creating meaningful relationships between people and the technology products and services ...

The Future of History is with Students

Tangara School For Girls started the ‘Write of Passage’ program this week; helping nearby Arcare Glenhaven aged care residents collect their life stories using new ICT & AI technology to create personalised memoir books.

The technology makes the usually tedious and time-consuming process much easier, students use template questions and voice-to-text, so they can focus on enjoying the stories and ...

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 ...