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Download article as a PDF Another dispatch from 2040. The arrival of virtual and augmented reality didn’t just enhance education—it transformed it. No longer were students merely learning about a subject. They were immersed in it. Biology students didn’t just study human anatomy; they travelled inside a virtual human body. History wasn’t confined to [...]
Ben Edwards, Australian National University and Jessica Arnup, Australian National University The federal government wants to increase the number of Australians who complete tertiary study from 60% to 80% by 2050. To do this we will need more young people going to university after they finish school. But this is not necessarily straightforward or easy. [...]
Andrew J. Martin, UNSW Sydney; Emma Burns, Macquarie University; Joel Pearson, UNSW Sydney; Rebecca J. Collie, UNSW Sydney, and Roger Kennett, UNSW Sydney If you had to do a test, how would you respond? Would you relish the chance to demonstrate your knowledge? Or worry you were about to fall short of the mark and [...]
Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040, past-lings. Some days, it feels like we’re living in a mash-up of The Jetsons and Harry Potter. School drop-offs and pick-ups are unrecognisable from what you experience in the 2020s. Look up, and you’ll see the swarm—drones delivering everything from textbooks to lunches, medical supplies to [...]
Download article as a PDF For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, teachers were caught in a paradox. They entered the profession to inspire and educate their students, yet much of their time was consumed by the administrative burden of assessment—marking, grading, and data entry. By 2040, that contradiction had been resolved. [...]
Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040. The past two decades have rewritten the script of education. The world you know—your policies, institutions, even your assumptions about learning—has been overtaken by a future that demanded we think beyond the present. We had a choice: resist change and fall behind or embrace transformation with [...]
Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040! You probably won’t recognise how schools function these days. By the end of 2024 we realised we had to redesign schools to meet the needs of a new generation of young people. The warning signs for us by 2024 included 20% of students not completing schooling, [...]
Laura Gormley, Dublin City University The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalised understanding of autism. This means considering autism as a disorder, with a focus on correcting autistic people’s perceived lacks, rather than building on their strengths. Autistic learners’ strengths, interests, preferences, goals and [...]
Nerelie Freeman, Senior Lecturer, School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education Amid a sharp increase in autism and ADHD diagnoses, many schools aren’t equipped to support the diverse learning and social-emotional needs of their students. Neurodiverse girls, including autistic and ADHDer girls, are one group of young people feeling distinctly unsupported and [...]
Penny Van Bergen, University of Wollongong Everyone knows a kid who cheats at Monopoly or backyard cricket. Perhaps they have even cheated on a test at school. If your notice your own child is doing this, you may worry they are headed for a life of crime. But in developmental terms, cheating is not usually [...]
