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- I’m just not a “maths person”
  
  What if we are ALL maths people, but some of us have been led to believe we’re not? And what if we’re passing on to our kids a detrimental preconception about maths? Is there even such a thing...
- Learning to learn – Why we won’t sit with one student for 75 minutes
  
  We do not ‘spoon-feed’ our students. As they progress through year-levels, successful students are those who 'help themselves' rather than relying on an overworked and possibly disinterested...
- AI responses to a Year 12 English assessment task
  
  I started a chat with an Artificial Intelligence platform by copying and pasting the text from a Year 12 assessment task sheet. For more information on AIs in education, see this page. My...
- Preparing Students For Puberty
  
  “I used to get this stuff…” At puberty, the teenage brain temporarily looses some of its capacity for academics. We want our students to have learnt ahead in the core curriculum with...
- University course price changes from 2021
  
  Radical change to university incentives has been needed for some time. And here it is! (Announced 19 June 2020) But what a year for school-leavers! The first to graduate with an ATAR in...
- Maths and English tutoring during Covid-19
  
  Education, school and tutoring in the face of Covid-19 2022 Term 1 Update For a moment there, we thought school disruptions might be behind us. While we have so far 'got of lightly' compared to...
- Looking for free remote learning activities this holiday?
  
  During the Covid-19 social restrictions ELC has moved temporarily to remote learning to keep our students' safe while keeping their hard-earned progress from being compromised. From Term 2 2020 we...
- Which maths? Methods, Specialist or General?
  
  Which maths? Short answer: Methods We say students should have Mathematical Methods as their default expectation, and aspire to it from early on. (Formerly equivalent to Maths B.) In Year 10,...
- Procrastination…
  
  Guilty pleasure I guarantee you’ve more than once suppressed that slippery guilt that comes with putting off today what could be done tomorrow. And you have no idea how long this topic has been...
- Feeling ‘in control’ of the school journey
  
  Students shouldn’t feel swept along or left behind by school! It is their journey – they should know where they're going, and be relaxed and confident behind the steering wheel. When driving a...
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University course price changes from 2021

Dan Blore
20 June 2020
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Tags: degree, engineering, mathematics, science, university

Radical change to university incentives has been needed for some time. And here it is! (Announced 19 June 2020) But what a year for school-leavers! The first to graduate with an ATAR in Queensland. Learning and assessments disrupted by Covid. And now, with QTAC preference selection well underway, a university course price shake-up due to start next year has thrown

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Wheat time-lapse – second video

Dan Blore
08 November 2015
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Tags: experiment, science, time-lapse

Many students have been waiting for this second time-lapse video that we made of the wheat growing in the ELC foyer. As a simple, fun learning experiment, we’ve been growing wheat at ELC for a month. It grows quite fast – we measured 25cm in 5 days – but that’s not quite fast enough to make

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Wheat Timelapse Experiment – Learning is Fun

Dan Blore
20 October 2015
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Tags: experiment, science

As a simple, fun learning experiment, we’ve been growing wheat at ELC this week. It grows quite fast – we measured 25cm in 5 days – but that’s not quite fast enough to make it very interesting to watch. So we set up an iPod to take 1 photo every 10 minutes for 4 days. When

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