How do you make school relevant for a generation brought up on Facebook and Twitter? Out goes a reliance on reading textbooks and writing essays and in come animated graphics, simulated science experiments and making documentaries for YouTube. One Australian school is attracting international attention for the way it is transforming learning through heavy investment in developing technologies that put the fizz back into learning and in trusting pupils to become independent investigators, able to collaborate in or out of the classroom and assess their own assignments. The process brings mums and dads into their child's school life with instant access to their children's work and progress online.
