Where do you start if you want to forge a career as a technical or technology writer? A technical writer churns out how-to-guides, instruction or user manuals, journal articles, FAQs, product specifications, white papers, etc. …

One school’s chicken coop and another school’s solar-powered recycled plastic benches with inbuilt phone-recharging stations. Which will see the light of day as a STEM story published on an online news site, specialist education magazine, or newspaper? It’s all about crafting a story-idea pitch, how, when, and where you send…

My latest installment as I delve into the phenomenon of out-of-field teaching as part of my Graduate Research in Education Research at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. Stitched up? Patterning out-of-field teachers using representational and textual tools Quilters sketch, stretch, cut and stitch, much like the process Australia’s K-12 education system undergoes to craft its ‘patchwork quilt’ of in-field and…

This was a war where not a drop of blood was shed, nor prisoner held, with no victor or vanquished. It has never earnt a mention in standard school history textbooks. Yet, its impact for societies across the globe has been seismic and it’s ready for the future (at least, I think so). The average layperson knows nothing of the Paradigm War; so intense some speak of it in the plural (Guba 1990, Smith 1989 and Gage 1989).

How beginning educators teaching high school mathematics out-of-field in regional Australia develop a professional identity Dear reader: I’ve plunged into writing about out-of-field teaching for a post-graduate degree in education research. Here’s my foray into sense-making of this phenomenon. Up to one in three beginning secondary school educators in Australia…

So, your child is about to start upper primary school, and you want to give them the best chance to tackle mathematics? I’m based in NSW, Australia, so this information, and the links I’ve provided, are relevant to this state. First step: the education department The NSW Department of Education gives you an outline of…

At a time when the globe is relying on university-educated health experts to try to keep COVID-19 at bay with the vaccine rollout, I’m bewildered by those who argue school and university education have nothing to do with ‘real-life’. I recently came across this stance in the 2019 book, Fake…

“[They] were not qualified to teach it, did not have stories to tell students and did not personally identify with the subject and so lacked confidence and ‘flamboyance’ in their teaching,” says Dr Linda Hobbs. Almost four out of 10 educators teaching high-school mathematics (years 7 to 10 inclusive) in…