Last weekend, Professor Jean M. Twenge was a key speaker at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas convened by the Ethics Centre. Her presentation, entitled "The Machines Killing Our Kids," was extremely thought-provoking. In light of this, Mrs Suzanne Kerr, Director of Wellbeing at Queenwood discusses how Queenwood's Wellbeing Program explicitly targets the social and emotional needs of students to ensure they are equipped with the necessary skills and opportunities to foster student voice, autonomy and social connection.

Spotlight On: The Importance of Belonging

17 February 2023

As the girls arrive at School in the morning, striding through the gate and into their classrooms, they are welcomed and acknowledged. They should expect to be noticed - they belong in their School.

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Spotlight On: Artificial Intelligence

10 February 2023

When teachers put down their whiteboard markers at the end of last year, the world was spinning smoothly on its axis. By mid-January, however, artificial intelligence and ChatGPT had hit the headlines and the educational future had, allegedly, changed forever.

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Spotlight On: Artificial Intelligence

10 February 2023

When teachers put down their whiteboard markers at the end of last year, the world was spinning smoothly on its axis. By mid-January, however, artificial intelligence and ChatGPT had hit the headlines and the educational future had, allegedly, changed forever.

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Spotlight On: Reflections of a Year 6 Red Shoe girl*

2 December 2022

This was my shoe when I started Kindergarten in 2016 and there were many on this day, boldly shiny and proudly red, almost sparkly.

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Spotlight On: Education Policy

25 November 2022

Australian schools are grappling with a global shortage of teachers. Our nation's future depends on reversing these trends for the benefit of all our young people.

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Spotlight On: Growing up in a Digital Environment

18 November 2022

“The digital environment was conceived as an environment for adult users. Not even its inventors thought it might one day be a place where childhood would be spent. Nor did they make any design concessions for child users. On the contrary, the utopian vision was that all users would be equal. And if all users are equal, then a child user is treated as if they were an adult”. 

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Spotlight On: Robots don’t make good teachers

11 November 2022

Big tech might look at our classrooms and see inefficiency; we see space and time for students to grapple with ideas at their own pace so that they might grow in independence.

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Spotlight On: Vaping/E-cigarettes

4 November 2022

We monitor girls’ behaviour at school but, as always, the strongest line of defence is education.

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Spotlight On: Why empathy is more important than ever

28 October 2022

I remember listening to Ms Stone in Assembly in 2018 when she told us about a lifelong Republican and his desire to be heard. His name was David Weissman. Your “typical Twitter troll” who, like many others, felt isolated in the then political climate and was using social media as his platform to vent.

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Spotlight On: Generous Assumptions

21 October 2022

There is complexity and intensity in childhood friendships. The strength of social connection has a profound effect on happiness, and in turn a child’s capacity to learn. Sustaining a culture of kindness in a school provides the foundation for all to flourish.

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