Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or something unnecessary has been included. This is what happened in the recent redesign of the Australian Curriculum, for example, where the emphasis on Western […] … learn more→

The world of writing is changing. First, there were keyboards, automatic entry of words or sentences on messaging. An era of which we are already turning the page. With the rise of artificial intelligence, robots can now produce texts of a level comparable to texts written by humans, without the use of any hand whatsoever. With recent improvements in transcription […] … learn more→

The number of parents giving money on demand in lieu of pay has been on the rise of late. Is this a good option? The key is not so much in giving or not giving pay, but in how it is given. Learn money management Giving our children some money each week is an excellent opportunity for them to […] … learn more→

Western sciences have little grasped the issue of ignorance despite the fact that, in the words of Karl Popper , “our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance is necessarily infinite”, with important consequences for our lives. . This is observed by Robert N. Proctor in the introduction to a collective work on agnotology published in 2008. This […] … learn more→

It is not uncommon to find, more and more, texts adapted with fonts specially designed to help people with dyslexia in reading . These are the fonts known in English as dyslexia friendly : Dyslexie, EasyReading(TM), OpenDyslexic, Read Regular(TM) and Sylexiad, among others. These sources have two main characteristics: Graphical features of the appearance of the letters to avoid confusion between […] … learn more→

Australian primary schools are becoming increasingly reliant on commercial programs for teaching students. This means the content and the way students are being taught is outsourced to a third-party provider, who is not your child’s teacher. Pre-pandemic research, commissioned by the New South Wales Teachers Federation in 2017 showed 28% of the state’s public school teachers already […] … learn more→

Among the received ideas about languages, which some researchers like the Linguists Atterrees try to deconstruct by recalling that French is doing very well , we regularly find the idea that the French are bad at foreign languages. The counterpart of this received idea – partially supported by strong blows from international studies (PISA for example) whose relative value is regularly […] … learn more→

SEO courses, which are referred to as search engine optimization courses in full, are educational programs or training sessions designed to teach individuals or businesses about the principles and techniques of optimizing websites for search engines. SEO is the practice of improving a website’s visibility and ranking on search engine results pages to drive organic […] … learn more→

The academic performance of primary school students is a topic of interest and concern for researchers, teachers and families alike. This stage can have a significant impact on the development of students, and can influence their educational trajectory in the long term. For this reason, it is essential to understand the variables that influence academic performance. Academic […] … learn more→

We live in a society with an excessive tendency to diagnosis and psychological labeling . Putting labels facilitates communication between professionals, but it also entails a series of inconveniences for the person and the social context in which they operate. If we talk about children and adolescents, this situation is complicated, since they depend on the adults and […] … learn more→