Video games have been the topic of debate for years. From their association with behavioural addiction to their influence on social engagement, the popularity of gaming among young people is to say the least, contentious. However, removing ourselves from the pros and cons of actual gaming, it can be productive to explore how some of …
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Article from the Australian (Zimmerman, 2018) Manual, routine and rule-based jobs that can be done better and faster with networked cognition are being automated. Seventy-five per cent of future jobs will involve science, technology, engineering and mathematics, using skills in data science, coding, software architecture, data analytics, cybersecurity and bioinformatics, among others. We also know …
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As the twenty-first century marches ever onwards, spatial cognition is increasingly being called on to visualise, invent and understand complex ideas and systems both natural and human-made. The F-10 Australian Curriculum: Technologies has much to offer spatial literacy education, particularly in the practice of Design and Technologies e.g. getting students to generate 2D nets that …
Last month, the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) released The New Work Smarts report that revealed growing concerns about young Australians not being adequately prepared for their futures. While it is impossible to forecast where tomorrow’s technology and its concomitant skills demand will lead the next generation, we do know that globalisation, flexibility, automation and robotics will have …
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To thrive in tomorrow’s new basics for employability we will all need an inquisition and creative confidence to engineer new ways of working. We will require a well-rounded ‘systems’ mindset, willing and able to envisage how countless components either add or lack value and how they can be leveraged to invent improved systems. Design Company IDEO have recently …
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The world of work is changing (Wiliam, 2015) and there will be some tough decisions ahead about the direction the Australian labour market in the next decade (Martin, 2015). Australia is on the cusp of a new and very different industrial revolution (Martin, 2015) driven by technology. Teachers as expert clinicians, with vested interest and …
Being put on hold, waiting for service in a complex system or hastily trying to edit detailed information on a mobile device, we have all experienced the waits, tensions and downfalls of bottlenecked systems and services. We can either get confused and frustrated, or we can design more effective solutions. Today, design plays a much …
Girls opting to continue technology studies into senior are steadily increasing. Currently twenty-two per cent of the School’s Year 12 cohort undertake technology studies, more than double the state average of ten per cent. Girls Grammar alumni are receiving industry recognition and landing highly-sought after jobs both nationally and internationally, such as one recent graduate …
The fastest growing, most diverse and dynamic segments of the Australian economy exist in creative industries with the dominant segment being software development and interactive content (Crean, 2009). Creative practitioners with commercial talent are mainstream and embedded across the entire Australian economy (CCI, 2013) and while computer coding and computational thinking is an all important …
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This speaks volumes to need to teach fundamental design skills in any web development course.