Many high school students are now choosing their courses for the coming year. The choices students make in grades 10 and 11 will have a significant impact on their lives after graduation. But students, families — and even educators — have little information about the outcomes associated with different course types. Our research drew on data […] … learn more→

There have been concerns about screens making kids more sedentary and less active since TV was introduced more than half a century ago. “Screen use” and “not enough exercise” are (separately) among the top health concerns Australian parents have about their children. But screens are not necessarily the enemy of exercise. Our research looks at how screens […] … learn more→

Adolescence has long been perceived as a period of irresponsibility, where the important thing was above all to “have a good time” and enjoy the present moment. Today, this is no longer the case, far from it. The future is a major concern, both for parents and for young people. More than 80% of the high […] … learn more→

University teaching presents a set of specific challenges: the massification of the student body, the diversity of student profiles, teaching shared with other activities such as research and management, the incorporation of innovative practices and the advancement of digitalization (including intelligence artificial). These are added to the competencies necessary in any type of teaching work […] … learn more→

Late last week, OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. While Sora is not yet available to the public, the high quality of the sample outputs published so far has provoked both excited and concerned reactions. The sample videos published by OpenAI, which the company says were created directly by Sora without modification, […] … learn more→

Parents and caregivers of school-aged children are all too familiar with the after-school conversation that sounds a little something like: “How was school?” “Fine.” “What did you learn?” “Nothing.” Conversations between children of all ages and attentive, caring adults offer strong benefits in all domains of children’s well-being. When these conversations are purposeful and strategic, they can even strengthen skills […] … learn more→

Nine in the morning, the doorbell rings. The boys and girls rush to enter the classrooms. His teacher is waiting there. She has been at the center for more than half an hour arranging the classroom to carry out a dynamic that she hopes will work and capture attention better than yesterday. Among the large […] … learn more→

On January 29, Elon Musk published in X the success of the first surgical intervention implanting a device developed by his start-up Neuralink in a human . The name of the device: Telepathy (Telepathy). In the scientific community we were attentive to what Elon Musk’s team had achieved since in September 2023 the competent body, the United States Food and […] … learn more→

It’s tempting to think that the PhD thesis is the place you get to display every single thing you’ve read. To peacock-like spread out a significant dazzle of texts. Look how much I’ve done. See how well I can summarise it all. Just imagine how good my notes are and how impressive my (Endnote, Zotero […] … learn more→

Increasingly frequent in media discourse and everyday language, the term resilience was said to have been used for the first time by Emmy Werner . This developmental psychologist focused in the 1980s and 1990s on the long-term consequences of stress occurring during the prenatal and perinatal periods, based on longitudinal research on 698 people from the island of Kauai […] … learn more→