EdAlive is giving away 10,000 FREE downloads of Ultimate Maths Invaders. In today’s digital world kids so easily lose facility with mental maths. Ultimate Maths Invaders boosts kids mental maths ability. It’s full of rapid-fire Tables and Number Facts. Players repel the invaders and master mental maths. Covers essential numeracy skills for children aged 5 – 15 including: + – x ÷,  -2,  %,  2.2, 0.2,  1/2,  √2 and more!

What do you know about Phishing, Cookies, Worms and Trojans in a technological world? Do they still mean sitting out by the river waiting for a bite, biscuits, small garden slimy things or a person from ancient Troy? Here’s a simple guide to some of the jargonistic terms that are a part of today’s tech world.

Students at the University of California Davis are studying the the impact of robotics on the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths from elementary grades to high school.

The Cloud is all about integration between different digital devices, data security and flexibility. Using DropBox can make it all come together so easily.

Schools everywhere are upgrading their computing systems to Windows 7 so now is your opportunity to prepare for the move and use all the latest EdAlive software in the meantime. No hassles! To assist schools in the transition we have created the “Complete Unlimited0 School Wide Licence” containing all 60 of EdAlives amazing titles in one! If your school already owns licences for some of the titles then you deduct…

The world our children are entering is changing rapidly with smart phones reporting their every move. Every time we make a phone call, click on a website link, send an email or swipe a card through an electronic reader, we are creating a record that can be stored and later analysed by computers.

Senator Stephen Conroy’s decision to can a comprehensive internet filter for Australia is a win for common sense, for many reasons but many parents and those interested in the welfare of our children still have concerns.

WHEN the Liberal member for Bradfield, Paul Fletcher, and his group of Coalition MPs were preparing their discussion paper on ways to improve online safety for children – released by Tony Abbott on Friday – they came upon a Perth school principal who’d had to sort out a Facebook dispute between two six-year-olds.

Report after report concerning young people emphasises the difference well informed parental support can make to a child’s wellbeing and achievements and many recent initiatives are aimed at creating conditions that enable parents/carers and educationalists to operate in harmony and pursue goals which, while not necessarily identical, contribute significantly to children being able to fulfill their potential. This article looks at the 12 interdependent aims for primary education contained in…

Students aren’t daunted by the iPad interface. They may take time to experiment and understand steps required to produce an outcome, but they will persevere. Having observed students at different stages of learning, across many subjects, it has become clear that students aren’t a barrier to learning with the iPad. If a process doesn’t work for a student they will try something different. They collaborate with peers to produce quality…

Parents have a very different perspective. Whilst educators wax lyrical about the potential of the iPad for learning, there are concerns from parents about its impact on their child – or so we thought!

Leave lesson planning until the last minute in response to real time feed back from online activities completed by the students over night!

Here’s a list of 5 top augmented reality apps that you might use in every day situations and in your classroom.