Statistics tell us that 90% of brain development occurs in the first five years of life. How do you measure that I wonder?
But we’re not meeting expected standards so the discussion ensues about the ‘how to’ of improving current learning.
With the ‘Launch in Learning Campaign’ Adrian Piccoli, the Director of the Gonski Institute for Education at the UNSW and Dr Stacey Fox, Professor, School of Education at UNSW had two delightful 3-year-olds to launch paper planes from the podium for their address and judging by their efforts the good old paper plane is a good example of how to engage littlies in the great learning achievement of getting one into the air and straight back at the older and wise audience who contemplated what is best for the young’uns in the early years.
Tania Plibersek had a cohort of supporters for her address to the National Press Club in Canberra with current, retiring and hopeful candidates listening intently.
It will be months of all manner of promises and bickering before the time is up and maybe it would be good to ‘teach the children’ about the machinations of elections before we get to the finishing line.
They will be wide-eyed with wonder trying to understand it all just as we are.
Best they stick to teaching us how to use a mobile phone properly.
