5 Tips for Improving Your Intercultural Communication Skills
10 min readModern societies are made up of people from different cultural backgrounds. Out of the 4.96 million people currently living in Melbourne, 33.2% of the population was not born in Australia (World Population Review, 2020). A culturally div...
Why is it important for students to learn about Aboriginal culture?
7 min read, aboriginal culture, mungo explorerThe Australian Curriculum has emphasized learning Aboriginal history and Aboriginal culture to engage all students in reconciliation, respect, and recognition of the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. Promoting Aboriginal educa...
9 Amazing Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
10 min read, technology, technology and education, technology in the classroomTechnology serves to connect the world by reducing time and geographical barriers, improving our quality of life by expanding our knowledge and availability of resources. The movement towards using technology in education is inevitable a...
COVID-19 and Homeschooling: Reminder of Diversity in Community
10 min readThe World Health Organization identifies coronavirus (COVID-19) as the latest emblematic pandemic to put global health at stake. An official statistics summary of reported cases recorded over 70 million of confirmed cases, up to the earl...
Celebrate by Learning the Ancient Story of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady
10 min read, Mungo ManThe NAIDOC 2020 theme – Always Was, Always Will Be. – recognises and celebrates that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. At Lake Mungo the story of land and people come together. In this...
The Benefits of Gaming in Education
10 min read, gaming educationGeneration Z is one of the most tech-savvy generations to date and this has greatly affected the way they learn in the classroom. According to an article by Gaming.co, almost half of children spend more than ten hours online every day, ...
Science has opened a doorway and the ancient remains tell a story
5 min read, scienceScience has opened a doorway and the ancient remains tell a story of a culture that has survived at least 1,680 generations. I’ve walked past my father’s organized chaos most of my life. Dad was always surrounded by images from his w...
Teaching Indigenous Studies in Schools
5 min readThe study of history in the new [Australian ACARA] curriculum begins in primary school with … an approach that relates people and events in the past to children’s personal experiences. The history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isl...
Intercultural Understanding: How can we teach it?
2 min read, Intercultural understanding, learning lands“Intercultural understanding is an essential part of living with others in the diverse world of the twenty-first century. It assists young people to become responsible local and global citizens, equipped through their education for liv...