An intense night of study won’t help you remember information in the long-term – and the stress of revising under pressure will likely impact on your sleep and thus your exam performance.
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Do we really need to introduce a well-being league table to tackle mental health issues in schools?
Who am I, as an academic, to decide in advance what is or what is not triggering to others?
Children start to demonstrate self-awareness as they approach their second birthday – and it helps them to learn.
Dyslexic? There’s an app for that.
There is little evidence to show that teaching students according to perceived ‘learning styles’ has any positive effect on their learning.
Seymour Papert’s vision has helped computers become widespread in education today, and gave birth to the movement to teach children to program.
Two simple yet powerful things students can do to ensure that they have a transformative undergraduate experience, no matter where they go to college.
We’ve had enough studies suggesting that games are good for us. We need to start asking why.
Focusing on progress – not just achievement – and investing in improving teaching practice will help to lift slipping standards in Australian schools.
School leavers, listen up – it’s okay not to know what you want to do in life.
Now that the OLT is closing and the grants and fellowships are lost, it is not clear whether the government will play an active role in enhancing teaching excellence in our universities.
Closing the Office of Learning and Teaching removes Australia’s national commitment to innovation and improved performance in learning and teaching.
Kindergarteners are under tremendous pressure – doing as many as 15 academic activities in a day, with a shorter recess time. What is the long-term impact?
Schools and universities pump lots of time and money into collecting data on learning analytics, but there is no research to show that such data actually helps to improve learning outcomes.
Differentiation is not about about creating different lessons for every student. It’s about teachers providing a range of options for students to demonstrate their learning.
Parents who provide learning support at home can improve their child’s literacy and emotional development, regardless of their class or educational background.
Helping your teenager with their homework can make them feel incompetent and can hinder their own skills development.
Art education is an important vehicle for all sorts of learning and knowledge acquisition. Teachers must be taught not to view it as a “second class” subject.
People who think their willpower is unlimited do better under pressure.
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Macquarie University
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Campus and Secondary Principal at the International School of Geneva's La Grande Boissière, Research Associate at the University of Geneva's department of Education and Psychology, Université de Genève, Université de Genève
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Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), Nutritional neuroscientist, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology