When AI hands us an answer, we risk bypassing the process through which learning happens.
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Teachers do not simply implement curriculum reforms exactly as policymakers design them.
Education systems across southern Africa must better prepare for a hotter future.
A high proportion of South Africans complete grade 12 despite evidence of learning gaps – how is this possible?
There’s a difference between using a tool to assist you, and using one to replace cognitive effort.
In many countries, national exams continue to reward memorisation, shaping what teachers teach and how students learn.
Do people have a natural aversion to putting in the effort or wasting effort?
Courage is widely considered a fundamental human virtue. A professor of psychology and a university president break down the components of courageous action.
The Philadelphia School District is rolling out a Flyers-branded app that’s supposed to get kids moving by following an avatar on a screen.
Babies do a lot of learning during mealtimes. Two speech pathologists explain how to introduce your little one to different textures and tastes.
Is listening a more optimal way of learning than reading a book? Do audiobooks improve young learners’ reading comprehension or is it the same?
Elite athletes miss plenty of shots during March Madness and the NBA playoffs. Training both brain and body can help even beginners and novices get more net.
If a baby doesn’t show a clear response at a particular age, it does not necessarily mean they have stopped learning or missed an important step.
When a child has a disability, especially an intellectual one, a father’s involvement often shifts in complex ways.
How do instructors get students to trust their own thinking and be better than robots?
AI might have ‘PhD-level’ intelligence. But substituting it for a PhD student sacrifices a special part of the academic ecosystem.
Students had to compile a portfolio and discuss it in an interview to demonstrate their understanding and ability to apply the knowledge.
Performance in museums can be one way that an interest in history, and in turn wider societal issues, is cultivated from a young age.
There’s a worry that AI will take away student voice and agency.
The current landscape of AI use in K-12 schools is highly varied because there’s little specific policy guidance from the state and federal levels.
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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