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Project 2040 – Dispatch 7: Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Schools

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 [...]

By |2025-08-14T12:31:22+10:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: Education|Tags: |0 Comments

Protecting young minds online: Australia’s evolving social media age laws

How new legislation and expert insights are reshaping online safety for young Australians In 2024, the Australian Government made headlines by announcing its intent to raise the minimum age for access to major social media platforms. The reforms would restrict young people’s access to platforms including TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat until the age of 16 [...]

By |2025-08-16T19:14:42+10:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: Social Media, Technology|Tags: |0 Comments

Cognitive Velocity

Download article as a PDF Cognitive Load -> Learning Ease -> Cognitive Velocity When we expand our knowledge from reducing cognitive load towards enhancing learning ease and engagement, and ultimately to increasing cognitive velocity, teaching becomes creative, exciting and impactful. We gradually coach our learners to shift from beginners to competence, and then, towards [...]

By |2025-08-13T14:01:14+10:00August 1st, 2025|Categories: Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

I’ve seen the brain damage contact sports can cause – we all need to take concussion and CTE more seriously

Alan Pearce, Swinburne University of Technology Concussion in sport continues to make headlines, whether it be class actions, young men flocking to the highly violent “RunIt” activity or debate about whether Australian rules football should remove the “bump” once and for all. Bringing this weighty issue to greater prominence are the former athletes who [...]

By |2025-08-13T13:57:31+10:00August 1st, 2025|Categories: Nature Play|Tags: |0 Comments

Project 2040 – Dispatch 6: AI, Assessment, and the Future of Schools

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. [...]

By |2025-08-01T14:25:45+10:00August 1st, 2025|Categories: Education|Tags: |0 Comments

The significance of school belonging in protecting mental health

In addressing the critical concern of mental health in adolescents, the role of school belonging has emerged as a focal point of contemporary research. Despite the increasing recognition of its importance, a comprehensive understanding of how school belonging impacts long-term mental wellbeing has remained elusive. Our new study investigating school belonging and mental health outcomes [...]

By |2025-07-18T10:39:26+10:00July 18th, 2025|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: |0 Comments

Project 2040 – Dispatch 5: Big Data and Predictive Learning in Schools

Download article as a PDF For most of the 20th and early 21st centuries, education was built on intuition and tradition. But by 2040, data finally lived up to its promise—not as a collection of numbers, but as a tool to convert information into real knowledge. Automating this process released teachers from the administrative [...]

By |2025-07-18T10:03:32+10:00July 18th, 2025|Categories: Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

How should I talk to my kids about abuse and body safety?

Elizabeth Westrupp, Deakin University Hearing about child abuse in trusted places such as childcare centres is every parent’s worst nightmare. So, how can we talk to our kids about it and help them stay safe? While it’s not always possible to prevent abuse – and it’s never the victim’s responsibility – there are practical, age-appropriate [...]

By |2025-07-18T10:05:20+10:00July 18th, 2025|Categories: Grooming, Trauma|Tags: |0 Comments

School playgrounds are one of the main locations for bullying. How can they be set up to stop it?

Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University Children spend thousands of hours in playgrounds at school. A lot of this time does not have the same levels of teacher preparation and supervision as classrooms do. Research shows school playgrounds are one of the main locations where bullying occurs. The federal government is doing a rapid review [...]

By |2025-07-03T12:45:30+10:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: Bullying|Tags: |0 Comments
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