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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Anyone watching the debate over the National Party's recent curriculum policy announcement could be forgiven for thinking there is a deep divide in education philosophy and best practice in New Zealand. The truth isn't quite that simple. In fact, most (if not all) interested parties would agree that…

Credit: Shutterstock As primary schools continue to invest in purpose-built nature play spaces, experts are encouraging teachers to deliver more of the curriculum in outdoor areas, to boost students' well-being and development and to maximize the use of play spaces. In a new University of South Australia study, published in…

Credit: Shutterstock Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of people to relocate from the surrounding area, which is still a deserted "exclusion zone" today. The Chernobyl…

Training FashionCLIP, a domain-specific CLIP model for FashionPhoto by Domenico Loia on Unsplash.This is a short blog post describing FashionCLIP. If you are a data scientist you probably have to deal with both images and text. However, your data will be very specific to your domain, and standard models might not work well. This post explains how domain-specific vision and language models can be used in a domain-specific setting and why using them can be a promising way to create a search engine or a (zero-shot)…

Too Long; Didn't ReadThis series of articles is my journey of learning Flame (and Flutter) and building a basic platformer game. I’ll try to make it quite detailed, so it should be useful to anyone who’s just dipping their toes into Flame or game dev in general. In the first part, we’re going to create a new Flame project, load all assets, add a player character, and teach him how to run. Too Long; Didn't ReadThis series of articles is my journey of learning Flame (and Flutter) and building a basic platformer game.…

Bryan Cranston reaffirmed his support of teaching critical race theory on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace after backing the academic framework while appearing on Bill Maher’s podcast in February. On the latest episode of the CNN and HBO Max series, host Wallace addressed the Breaking Bad actor’s previous statements on Club Random With Bill Maher, which saw the actor and commentator debate the importance of teaching critical race theory in the U.S., as well as Cranston’s stance on the Make America Great…

Carter G. Woodson. Credit: Smithsonian Institution Although Black History Month wasn't established until the 1970s, Black teachers in the segregated Jim Crow South, particularly women, had been teaching Black history for decades prior, and were vital to its accuracy and preservation. That's according to ArCasia James-Gallaway, a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Plenty of homework, small classroom sizes and a long school day are often seen as the mark of a successful school—but research shows the number one factor that impacts learning is engaging teaching. An internationally renowned teaching expert has carried out the most thorough research to date on…

Credit: Shutterstock As artificial intelligence-powered chatbots edge into the education sector, UniSA experts are encouraging teachers to take an active role in testing and using these cutting-edge tools to maintain a competitive edge in their profession. The call follows a strict banning of ChatGPT in WA, NSW, Queensland, and…

Credit: Durham University Academics from Durham University are urging that climate change education should be made compulsory across the core law curriculum in Higher Education. The researchers evaluated students' engagement and their broader views concerning climate change education by integrating climate change and environmental…