Teaching and Learning

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Education

Blind faith in Australia’s education ‘system’ is failing our kids

To improve Australia’s education system, we need to move away from the idea that the basic features of education are fixed

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Education

Learning by knowing, by doing, by being

Many schools promote teaching the ‘whole child’, but to do this, education cannot only focus on knowing and doing – it must explicitly embrace being

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Health & Medicine

Lost in space: Open-plan classrooms can leave children adrift

Middle years primary-school students are at risk of academic delay when learning in an open-plan classroom

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Education

University students are using AI, but not how you think

Higher education students are cautious about using generative AI and academics lack guidance, finds new report

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Education

Patching the right holes to retain Australian teachers

By looking at who stays and who leaves, we can help armour our education system to manage Australia’s teacher shortage says University of Melbourne expert.

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Education

Supporting our schools to develop Asia capable kids

Asia capable initiatives that only target adults and young adults leaves it far too late – it has to start in our schools

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Education

AI means a rethink of teaching foreign languages

Machines are better than most human foreign language learners at translation, so teaching languages should now focus on global competence

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Education

Food for thought

Food, and where it comes from, connects all of us – so using it as a tool to teach students global competency and citizenship makes sense

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Education

Game on for collaborative learning

Video games, collaborative tasks and explicit instruction are helping neurodiverse children learn crucial social skills

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Education

Is EQ more important than ever?

As we ask students to become more globally competent, the need to develop social and emotional skills – or emotional intelligence – is more essential than ever

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