Challenges old and new confront young people in their efforts to get a useful education.
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Some dogs can remember the names of hundreds of objects.
Ideas about corporal punishment become part of a culture that is passed from one generation to the next.
While Alberta says Bill 6 will strengthen early literacy, the plan doesn’t measure the broader skills essential for reading success by Grade 4.
Factors contributing to school violence are found in the family, the community and the school.
Metacognition is often described as ‘thinking about our thinking’. It involves being aware of how our mind works and using that awareness to improve how we learn.
Exercise helped children with ADHD perform better on cognitive tests.
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
Under-resourced schools are less likely to support teachers in implementing AI technology to best serve learning.
Whether you’re walking into a performance appraisal or anticipating a grade, recognizing that feedback is valuable is the first step towards growth.
Students – and all manner of professionals – are tempted to outsource their thinking to AI, which threatens to undermine learning and credibility. A philosophy professor offers a solution.
Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help kids learn to read.
A meta-analysis of AI chatbots’ impact on student learning finds benefits when used properly, but risks of diminishing student motivation and confidence.
Common chatbots produce generic lesson plans that are unlikely to improve learning, a study finds. It shows how teachers should be critical users – not rapid adopters − of generative AI.
It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.
The SHIELD (Sleep, Head Injury prevention, Exercise, Learning, and Diet) mnemonic offers a clear and effective strategy for lowering dementia risk.
Learning is understanding, requires challenge and takes time, a science education scholar explains.
Is Canada’s current approach to building human capital fit for the challenges ahead? A new report finds this isn’t the case.
Students in open, distance and e-learning institutions are under-researched when it comes to food insecurity.
Teaching should encourage discovery, curiosity and problem solving. Why are teachers holding back?
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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