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St Michael’s device strategy has culture at its heart

“This is a tool for learning.” These words lie at the heart of how St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda in Melbourne reframed from a technology-led device strategy to a learning-led device strategy.

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Inside the digital learning revolution at Shore

Shore moved to Surface Pros and achieved better learning outcomes, plus the resulting time savings and efficiency benefits for the ICT team and teachers.

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Can AI bring back the joy to teaching? Try these Microsoft Surface AI power-ups

Lesson preparation, assessment, research, administration and liaising with parents are just some of the many tasks weighing today’s teachers down. Explore how the new Surface devices with AI can bring back the joy to teaching.

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Why teachers love Surface for the classroom

In today’s digital, physical, blended, and hybrid classrooms, teachers want new ways to help every student achieve more. Providing them with natural ways to work can help. Touchscreens support intuitive interactions for every student and digital inking offers the versatility to sketch ideas, take notes, or do math equations. Hear why teachers love Surface In… View Article

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Picking one device for all gets everyone on the same page

When the newly built Riverbanks College in Adelaide’s north was preparing to welcome its first students, a great deal of thought went into the devices that students would be carrying to and from home. Staff and teachers wanted a device with the capabilities of a PC, the portability of a tablet, and superior battery life…. View Article

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The AI Potential for Education

One of the great 80s songs reminds us that education is an essential component to empowerment: “I believe children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way.” As we consider AI’s entrance into our lives in the last 10 months, this sentiment rings true. Young people will hold the potential of… View Article

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The Hutchins School Surface Laptop Go upgrade transforms the classroom experience

The Hutchins School in Hobart has achieved Microsoft Gold School status for transforming the use of technology in education, after upgrading to Surface laptops for its middle school students. The Anglican boys’ school switched from Google Chromebooks to Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go at the start of 2022 for years 6 to 8. As a result,… View Article

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Breaking New Ground in Hybrid Learning Solutions

Through the height of the pandemic with fully online classes the norm, a spark was ignited for Dr David Kellermann, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School at UNSW in Sydney. As he delivered online classes from his home studio, Dr Kellermann could see a fork in the road ahead.   One path would lead to… View Article

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Australian Catholic University addresses employer needs with in-demand Microsoft skills

Graduates of Australian Catholic University (ACU) can now “hit the ground running”, with certified up-to-date core digital skills guaranteed through embedding Microsoft certifications into IT and Business courses. Gaining certification in Microsoft Excel and Azure Fundamentals is now embedded as a mandatory element of the curriculum and offered free to all students and staff. ACU… View Article

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Health Industry

The Role of Digital in Health System Reform

Discover how innovative care models and AI is driving better access, equity and outcomes in healthcare.

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Government Industry

The five benefits of digitalised government finance

Turn disruptions into opportunities with a Dynamics 365 finance system.

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Government Industry

Managing a public sector workforce?

Try these 7 tactics to keep staff happy, safe and productive.

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Education Industry

Queensland Department of Education transforms remote access capability with Azure Virtual Desktop

There’s nothing like a crisis to underscore deficiencies in aging IT infrastructure – and so COVID-19 provided added impetus to the search for a modern replacement of remote access technologies used by corporate staff within the Queensland Department of Education (QLD DoE).  This year saw deployment of the cloud-based Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) platform to… View Article

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Generative AI for the Healthcare Sector

Explore generative AI in the healthcare sector, its benefits and potential applications.

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Virtual classrooms offer equitable learning experiences for remote and rural students

A new virtual learning program brings expert-level tuition to regional and remote Catholic high schools, helping senior students overcome the “tyranny of distance”.  The Virtual Learning Collaborative (VLC) uses Microsoft Teams and OneNote Class Notebook to deliver courses that would otherwise have been denied to final-year students because of a lack of qualified teachers and… View Article

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Methodist Ladies’ College is building a supportive school community with real-time data insights

A Melbourne girls’ school is inviting parents to become more involved in their children’s learning – using technology to give them a “real-time” view of how things are going in the classroom.  Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC) is using a Microsoft Power BI data visualisation to share a range of information about students’ progress in a… View Article

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