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www.euronews.com Fostering reasoning skills in young people can improve learning outcomes and one way of doing this is by teaching philosophy. Children are naturally curious and constantly asking "why?" Studying philosophy helps them not only explore answers to these sorts of questions, but develops critical thinking. *Hawaii: Young minds, old questions* Waikiki School in Honolulu has strived for a mindful approach to educaton for the last 20 years. In contrast to many other schools, here children as young as five study philosophy, or at least are encouraged to ask philosophical questions. Thomas Jackson, from Philosophy for Children, in Hawaii, said: "In kindergarten, we are filled with wonder and our wonder bubbles out in these extraordinary questions. As you follow most students through the school, that wonder diminishes. By the time they get to 3rd grade, 4th grade, they're already shutting down, they're responding to the expectations of the system and what the teacher wants." The Philosophy for Children Hawaii Centre helps the teachers here retain their wonder and their curiosity. The point is not to acquire specific facts or opinions, but to develop critical thinking skills. Courtney Carpenter, a teacher at the school, said: "Since they went to philosophy class, they've been taught that you can think of questions and you can come up with answers for the questions and there's no wrong answer. Then what happens is they get empowered and when they come into a classroom ...

www.euronews.com Games are usually seen as recreaction but increasingly, educational games are being developed as an aid to learning. Computers and information technology are now part of daily life for many young people and some teachers are looking at ways of incorporating these new tools into their teaching. *UK: biology in 3D* In the Abbey School in Reading, in the UK, 3D movies have been used as teaching aids by the biology department since 2010, with good results. Ros Johnson, the Head of the science department, said: "When I started teaching science, we just had a blackboard really, and we'd have these models as well. So you'd stand in front of the class with a model and you'd try to get everybody to see it and perhaps you'd pass it around and then people at the back would get irritated because they didn't have it. And then we got the projectors onto whiteboard and we could use animation and things moved and it was better. And now we've got the 3D. Absolutely everybody in the class can see the 3D, it's hanging in the middle of the classroom, the image, you can rotate it so they can all look at it, you don't need to pass it around anymore and it's fantastic." The jury may stilll be out when it comes to 3D in cinemas but in education teachers are finding it invaluable. For now, images can be manipulated using a mouse, in the future, students may be able to move the images with their hands. 3D projectors are the same price as conventional ones, and equipping a class of ...

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