Podcast by EarlyLearningReview
Early Learning Review speaks to Language in Little Ones study coordinator Mary Brushe
ELR discuss paediatric therapies with Clare MacFarlane from the Napa Centre.
ELR interviews Australian Childcare Alliance chairman Paul Mondo about proposed introduction of an au pair visa for Australia.
Order of Australia recipient Gwynn Bridge discusses her passion for early learning and how the industry has changed in her 30 years in the business.
Stephanie Gotlib is the chief executive officer of Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA). Following Senator Pauline Hanson’s comments in parliament questioning the efficacy of mainstreaming kids with autism in preschool and school, Gotlib joined Early Learning Review to explicate her views.
Professor Susan Edwards discusses her grant to conduct research into the importance of play in learning with a focus on playgroups located in schools.
Sally Watson, president of Australian Association for Infant Mental Health (AAIMHI) talks about the inagural Infant Mental Health Awareness Week
Professor Ken Harvey discusses his concerns regarding the child vitamin gummie market.
It’s time for episode 20 of Talking Eds! in this week’s bumber edition the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at labeling’s adverse effect on children, whether mindfulness triggers past traumas and spar over Bond University’s new pathways program.
Dr Daniel Skorich is a psychology researcher at the University of Queensland. He has been researching autism spectrum disorders and has published a paper that shows the relationship between clusters of social interaction characteristics that were previously thought to be unconnected.
Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection. He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical reasons to vaccinating their children. Early Learning Review spoke with professor Clarke about those obligations and other issues relating to conscientious objection.
Tammy Ceppi heads up Playball Australia, a sports-based school-readiness program that seeks to impart social skills, resilience, hand-eye coordination, concentration, confidence, life skills and cognitive skills, all via the magic of playing with balls!
Researchers have determined that the so-called autism epidemic is driven by more children with less severe behavioural symptoms being diagnosed, not because more children are born with the condition.
Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity.
In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities and the importance of mentoring students from high school to university.
In this week’s episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at the history and effect of White Ribbon Day, discuss the University of Sydney’s expansion in China and explore Torrens University’s new grad certificate, specifically for educators working with children with autism.
Mick Grimley is the dean of education at Torrens University, which has recently introduced a Graduate Certificate in Education (Autism), specifically to impart skills and knowledge to teachers and other professionals working with children with autism.
Tarkett is a French company that manufactures and markets commercial flooring products, with a specific focus on education and healthcare environments. Ralph Jorissen is the managing director of Tarkett’s Australian subsidiary, which is currently rolling out its new iQ One range.
In this week’s episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at why parental leave double dipping seems destined to say, hear from several youngsters on the importance of listening to abuse claims, explore issues of independence when industry starts funding academia and look forward to the US Presidential Election.
In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at what role should robots play in the classroom, how investment in fossil fuels is fueling dissent among universities, catch up on the Federal Government's overhaul of the VET system and experience NSW Premier Mike Baird throwing shade on his interstate rivals...
In this week’s episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at why streaming services are becoming more prominent in preschool, dive deep into Edith Cowan VC Steve Chapman’s coming out as a feminist and detail the long-awaited overhaul to the VET loans system.
Childhood ADHD: to medicate, or not to medicate? This debate has been raging for decades, with staunch advocates on each side. Now, there’s more positive news for those in the anti-medication camp.
In this week’s episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review dive deep into why intensive parenting is making mums and dads miserable, investigate the crowdsourcing phenomenon shaking up Big Pharma and revel in the protesting Sydney College of the Arts students’ victory against powers that be at the University of Sydney.
In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review unpack body image issues in the preschool playground, look into the USQ ecologist who was forced to withdraw from a conservation conference due to his dingo meat ideas and chat about the importance of uni rankings after yet another list was released.
In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite steps in to provide some expert commentary on the Five Big Myths of Growing Old, according USQ’s resident expert gerontologist.
With nearly one-third of people with epilepsy having forms resistant to current medication, some people turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope – and anecdotal evidence claiming – that it will work. Now, researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership with Epilepsy Action Australia, are seeking out parents who use cannabis-based medicines to treat their child’s epilepsy.
This week on a jam-packed Episode 11 of Talking Eds, the team from Early Learning Review, Education Review and Campus Review unpack the new STEAMy new Sesame Street initiative, dissect the US college sports scholarship system and discuss solutions to this sedentary century, courtesy of some interesting UQ research. In Part 1, Loren kicks us off with a discussion of how Sesame Street is leading the new STEAM revolution. STEAM is like STEM but with an extra kick of A for Arts thrown in to be more inclusive. James leads Part 2 by chatting about how former wheelchair basketball Paralympian Bridie Kean is hoping to replicate some of the US' highly evolved intercollege sports systems uses scholarships to increase competition and participation. Part 3 involves me reflecting on a UQ researcher's findings that we all need to increase out exercise output 5-fold.
In episode 10 of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look back on a week when New York said ‘no’ to Pokémon Go, we discovered what the most optimistic and engaging school year is, and referencing errors and plagiarism made news. Listen in to hear Early Learning Review editor Loren Smith and Campus Review and Education Review editor James Wells join me, news editor Patrick Avenell discuss the week that was in education.
The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce today curated a fascinating roundtable discussion on the future of innovation in Australia, with specific reference to the role the education sectors, in particular universities, are playing in this brave new world. On the panel was technologist and entrepreneur Paul Shetler, who is currently the CEO of Digital Transformation Office. Also on stage was social scientist Anne Moore, founder and CEO of PlanDo; and former telco whizz and now the founder of startup accelerator muru-D Annie Parker. The fourth and final panellist was University of Sydney deputy vice chancellor (research) professor Duncan Ivison.
In Episode 7 of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review discuss how adult technology behaviour is influencing kids, how MOOCs are going mainstream, and the socioeconomic causes of bad oral hygiene and dental health.
In Episode 7 of Talking Eds, the team behind Early Learning Review discuss an ambitious plan to withhold cash from families whose kids are missing school, an award winning app to detect autism and why the ABS is running a university-centric marketing campaign to promote the 2016 Census.
In Episode 6 of Talking Eds, the team discuss post-partum depression (PPD) in new dads, a new maths hub in Melbourne, tech skills in senior citizens and the 2016 federal election.
Updating Shakespeare for the kids was all the rage a generation back, with Romeo + Juliet, 10 Things I Hate About You, Romeo Must Die and The Lion King finding new audiences for old texts. Now we have a class of talented musicians reinventing The Odyssey as urban performance art. We chat about this story and play out the track Suitors from the new production. Then, in Part 2, Loren reviews the early childhood policy forum that took place in Adelaide ahead of the federal election. Loren reports that the issue, despite being of utmost importance to many parents, carers and educators, isn’t receiving commensurate policy focus from some of the major players. Part 3 sees a discussion on two recent studies that hit the news this week. The first involves the longterm effect of common medication for children living with ADHD, OCD and/or autism. The second is to do with a potential solution to the dreaded peanut allergy.
This week on Talking Eds, the team behind Early Learning Review, Campus Review, and Education Review discuss ways to attract and retain girls and women in STEM subjects, the disparity between lucky and unlucky young Australians and go manic for words in celebration of a competition called Word Mania.
A chat about the effectiveness of smoking bans on university campuses, the evolutionary cuteness ploy employed by babies and what the Brock Turner Stanford rape case tells us about rape culture on university campuses.
On the agenda this week is the new BubDesk concept that is freeing up Mums to pursue their career goals, a look back at the big issues arising from EduTECH in Brisbane, the call to measure soft skills in schools and a discussion on La Trobe’s decision to suspend controversial academic Roz Ward over a Facebook post.
Brain scientists have isolated 74 genes linked to high educational attainment, though getting a top marks may simply be a by-product.
New research shows kids who are better at recognising patterns, are better at learning grammar– challenging traditional theories of language learning.
One third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, to be developmentally unprepared for school.
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