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Is it really the best use of time for children, teachers and parents?
Children in the early stages of learning to read should be given decodable books to practise and generalise their developing alphabetic skills.
Robots in the classroom are highly engaging and motivating for students, and can have a cascading effect on learning across an entire school.
Rigorous they may be, but the new style of exam still leaves students with gaps in their learning skills.
A communication studies professor purposefully antagonizes students to show how putdowns and other forms of negative criticism can impact student learning.
Ontario’s move to ignore the calls of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to add Indigenous content to its history and social studies curriculum is foolish and dangerous.
Learning languages early makes multilingualism “normal” in classrooms and playgrounds, and builds curiosity and even modest mastery.
Teachers who are just starting out often lack the subject knowledge needed for effective teaching.
Assessments need to be relevant to the real world and test more complex skills to better predict competency, standards of literacy and teaching.
When teachers are more adaptable, they’re better able to respond to the changing nature of teaching, and navigate a complex workplace.
Australia’s decline in PISA rankings and criticisms of NAPLAN tell us we should also be looking at how we assess teacher quality.
Artificial intelligence will transform universities. Here’s how.
There’s been a drop in the number of people enrolling in teacher preparation courses. This is due to problems such as pay, professional autonomy, and a national obsession with standardised testing.
It has been predicted we will need 1,627 more classes for primary students nationally before 2025, and to respond to this demand we need to fix the gender imbalance in the teacher workforce.
While cutting the long summer holidays would help working parents, it may not be so great for teachers who need to plan and do professional development, and kids who need a rest.
Sarcasm can alienate and discriminate.
Each year large numbers of college students drop plans to become engineers or scientists because of poor performance in calculus. A new ‘active learning’ approach could help turn things around.
E-learning is both a technological and a social innovation. At its best, it can address problems within a particular social context.
In a time of populism and political polarization, children and young adults need to learn to think critically, with complexity and nuance. History, as a subject, is more important than ever.
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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