An expert has called for a review of the national curriculum as he says its "narrow" and "standardised" focus has reduced critical thinking and reasoning skills in Australian students. Charles Darwin University education lecturer Dr Stephen Bolaji says the structure ...
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As one of the seven general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum and a skill that is essential when thinking through complex tasks, problems and debates, critical reasoning will be vital for living and working in the 21st century. Along with ...
More »Self-determination theory and other associated academic considerations: Part 2
For William Hazlitt, the education process should have, as one of its central aims, the goal of creating the next generation of well-educated, independent and enlightened rational thinkers: who should be highly skilled, competent, intellectually erudite, and having the profoundly ...
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The final part in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Ineffective teaching practices that increase cognitive load This method contrasts with ineffective teaching practices, which tend to increase ...
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Part 2 in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Orthographic-integration In terms of developing skilled and efficient handwriting automaticity, and correlated creative narrative content, research undertaken by Suzanne ...
More »Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow: Dr Alexia Maddox – Podcast
EducationReview · Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow | Dr Alexia Maddox A new study conducted by Oxford University Press surveyed 1000 recent graduates and found that 88 per cent of them believed “soft skills” were necessary to ...
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What does MasterChef 2020 have to do with school? More than you'd think. The show's Grand Finale took place the other night, with Emilia and Laura vying for this year's trophy. As I was watching the season, I've noticed some ...
More »What is critical thinking and how do we teach it?
A recent paper commissioned by the NSW Department of Education sheds light on the importance of critical thinking skills in the future, strategies to teach critical thinking and the kinds of programs that do and don’t work. It should come ...
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RMIT is heralding its introduction of Australia's first 'fact-checking' university subject. The course, which will be mandatory for first year BA (Journalism) students, will include the teaching of skills like detecting Photoshopped images, using Google Earth to verify the location ...
More »Teaching beyond post-modernism in a digitalised society: opinion
The rapid and exponential growth of the internet over the past 40 years has changed the nature of society. Indeed, at the end of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the internet is our defining medium. This has ...
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