What is direct admission? In direct admission, soon-to-be high school graduates can be accepted into a college or university without having to submit an application. This often happens during a student’s senior year of high school, but some colleges make these offers during junior year. Direct admission is one of several strategies colleges and universities use to […] … learn more→

When we think of creativity applied to education, the first thing that comes to mind are different manifestations of artistic expression; but we forget that creativity and another related concept such as innovation refer to much more, to a way of “being” and “being” in the world. Among the multiple definitions of creativity, we are left […] … learn more→

Due to the pandemic, all schools—primary, secondary, college, and university—have been compelled to rely on online education. The great majority of educational institutions have begun the new school year with either online training alone or a hybrid approach that combines both classroom and online components. Even before the pandemic, online education was growing increasingly essential […] … learn more→

We are facing a mental health crisis. Teenagers and young adults are more depressed, suicidal, anxious and lonely than ever before. Depression rates among teens have been increasing since the early 2000s. A 2018 national survey found that 13.3 per cent of U.S. adolescents experienced a major depressive episode in the last year. But it’s not just teens — young […] … learn more→

Does the physical appearance of a teacher have any importance? What if he is a physical education teacher? Taking into account certain issues that I explain below, we can consider that the physical education teachers’ bodies themselves carry out pedagogical work and, in turn, this “work” of the body has repercussions on the bodies of other people, […] … learn more→

When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone. To smooth your wrinkled skirt, would you grab a warm thermos or a hairpin? GPT-3 suggested the hairpin. […] … learn more→

School holidays can feel like a marathon if all the kids want to do is watch TV, play Minecraft or repeatedly ask you for the iPad. There are lots of things you can do inside the house that do not involve a screen. And will help ward off any whines along the lines of: “I’m […] … learn more→

In American writer Mark Twain’s autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In a marvellous leap forward, artificial intelligence combines all three in a tidy little package. ChatGPT, and other generative AI chatbots like it, are trained on […] … learn more→

In recent decades, our society has changed substantially. Responses to this large-scale social change have been varied and from various quarters. Educational systems have modified their orientation to focus on the development of basic skills that allow citizens to function in their social environment. These abilities are identified with a series of competencies that go beyond theoretical […] … learn more→

We work at Griffith University’s Blurred Minds initiative. The program uses games to educate Australian high school students about alcohol, drugs and vaping. As part of our research, schools frequently tell us they do not have the tools and strategies to deal with the vaping crisis. In previous years, schools were most likely to seek our help […] … learn more→