Legendary: Game of Heroes is a free "intense and strategic puzzle role-playing game," its developer, N3twork, provides. "Build a team of legendary heroes, go on quests and defeat monsters. Your Legendary adventure begins today!" Although aimed at players aged 12 ...
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South Australia allows young people to educationally go with the FLO. FLO (Flexible Learning Option) is an alternative to mainstream schooling. Instead of sitting in classrooms from 9am to 3.30pm, students (often those with mental health, learning or behavioural difficulties) ...
More »Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?
Australia's youngest senator wants 16-year-olds to do something they've never done before: vote. "For far too long, politics has failed to properly represent young people or the issues they care about," Jordon Steele-John, a 23-year-old West Australian Greens representative, told parliament ...
More »American teens are sick of their phone addictions
Picture a typical teen. Did you imagine them hunched over, with their head buried in a smartphone? Or perhaps you pictured them seated, with their eyes fixated on a laptop screen? If so, roughly 50 per cent of the time, you'd ...
More »‘Profoundly wrong’: US professor slams John Hattie’s work
It's a clash of two titans: Dr Robert Slavin versus Laureate Professor John Hattie. The former is an influential American education policy academic, the latter hardly needs an introduction in international education circles. In a blog post entitled 'John Hattie is wrong', ...
More »Systematic review finds teacher racism impacts indigenous learning
"...Both students and parents have high expectations for achievement, but exposure to persistent and repeated negative representations of indigeneity or Indigenous academic ability from teachers and the media leads to disengagement, de-identification and reduced wellness." This statement, by a group ...
More »New medical guidelines for transgender kids
They may constitute only approximately 1.2 per cent of the population, but until recently, transgender individuals have been excluded from society. In a 2015 speech, former Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson said that of LGBTQI people, "the lingering and most extensive discrimination ...
More »The latest research on bouncing back
American developmental psychologist Emmy Werner was one of the first people to ever use the term 'resilience'. It came out of her landmark study of children from Kauai, Hawaii, from their birth in 1955 to their late teens, in the 1970s. At the ...
More »Teen career uncertainty mostly negative
Much has been made of the inadequacy of careers advice in schools. Regardless, some young people simply know what they want to do for a living earlier than others. Erin, from Bondi in Sydney’s east, knew she wanted to be a ...
More »How a 250-year-old company is modifying Google
An encyclopaedia is remaining relevant by augmenting its competitors. Encyclopedia Britannica, which was established in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768, has created a Google Chrome browser extension that cuts through search engine 'noise'. Britannica Insights works by delivering encyclopaedic information alongside, say, Google ...
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