Important programs helping older adults learn how to use the internet are effective but limited.
Video games have inspired a revolution in university teaching. Pictured here is a scene from the popular game Fortnite Battle Royale.
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University course designers are harnessing the addictive quality of video games to develop ‘Serious educational games’ that engage and motivate students.
Forget the “summer slide” here’s how you can help your child learn more over the summer holidays.
Peter Thomas of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (left), Marcel Dionne of Roarockit (centre) and Jaimie Isaac, curator for Indigenous/Contemporary at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (right), are seen building a skateboard using a do-it-yourself kit in this 2017 photo. Art and design schools should reward those who actually build and create more than they do design theorists.
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Even as our world goes digital, there will always be an appetite for craftsmanship, for art and for the work only human hands can truly bring to life. Art and design schools should celebrate creators.
Whenever you get a chance, even if it’s only ten minutes, engage in shared reading activities.
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Early shared reading is linked to a number of benefits for children, including better performance in NAPLAN, reading, writing, spelling, grammar and mathematics.
Childhood adversity is linked to social and mental health problems later in life. New research suggests brains that aren’t as good at recognizing rewards and responding to change may be to blame.
4.5 million young Australians between the ages of nine and 24 have taken NAPLAN tests at some point during their schooling.
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Artificial intelligence will transform universities. Here’s how.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in an armchair discussion highlighting the federal budget’s investments in Canadian innovation at the University of Ottawa in March 2018.
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Where and how do we learn to innovate? Our parents can’t teach us. Our bosses are trying to learn alongside us. Even post-secondary courses only provide us with the basics. Follow this recipe.
Neuroscience labs around the world may need to reevaluate some of their assumptions about whether what works in animals will really produce meaningful treatments for people.
A lone new neuron (green) in a 13-year-old’s hippocampus.
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The scientists behind a controversial new study were surprised by their own results. But they carefully did all they could to ‘prove a negative,’ and their neurogenesis study is shaking up the field.
Volunteers work on a Habitat for Humanity site in Winnipeg in July 2017. Building homes for the disadvantaged is the type of ‘learning through service’ that will stand university grads in better stead with employers.
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Employers now expect to hire people out of universities who don’t require any training. That’s why so-called experiential learning is becoming so critical for university students.
OCD can make it hard to concentrate.
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Adolescents have important developmental work to do. Despite what worried grownups think, taking needless risks isn’t the goal for teens. Being risky is part of exploring and learning about the world.
Many college students who take calculus fail to earn a C or better. Could ‘active learning’ help turn things around?
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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.
Deputy Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland