Games and learning in education

It’s far more interactive and fun. Textbooks are making way for tablets, and traditional written exercises are giving way to games. Games in education is not a new idea: as early as the 1970s researchers began studying the impact of video games on learning. Even with the cruder technology of that era, they found that […]

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Historical fiction – why accuracy matters

Historical fiction is popular across many genres: from romance to crime to literary fiction. But how much does accuracy matter? There’s a scene from a Highlands-themed bodice-ripper that still haunts me, years after reading it. The heroine, having to spend her wedding night camping out on the journey between her father’s castle and her new […]

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Encouraging women in IT

What can leaders and professionals do in the IT sector to foster gender diversity and equality? Gender diversity is a problem across the workforce, but it’s particularly severe in IT. According to the Australian Computer Society, based on ABS statistics, as of 2013 women made up only 28 per cent of Australia’s ICT sector. Meanwhile, […]

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How millennials are shaping your IT

Millennials have grown up using devices every waking hour, and their entire existence is interconnected. No wonder they have very specific demands when it comes to the workforce – both in terms of the technology they want to use and how they want to use it. So what influences are we seeing from these shifting generational behaviours, […]

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