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I’m fortunate enough to be in quite a privileged position regarding my career. Having finished a career as a teacher, where I worked as a school leader in independent, Catholic and public schools, in Australia and overseas, I’m now working with a teaching union to organise and support teachers every day. My day to day…

So I’ve decided to do some more work on learning Swift. I’ve got hold of a couple of books that take you through a range of different projects in order to teach you the basics of Swift plus all the other bits and pieces, such as Interface Builder and XCode. I’ve going to build the…

So, it’s the most exciting time of the week (for me at least): I have a new publication out! It’s about Collaborative Coteaching and Teacher Learning. I wrote it with Joanne Yoo and @ninaburridge1. Here’s a link (https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol44/iss4/5/ …) and here’s what it’s about: (THREAD) Most of my publications are about civics and citizenship education. This…

I had to prepare myself to read Teacher by Gabbie Stroud. I was conscious that there had been a lot of interest in the book before I came across it; this was made even more difficult because Gabbie had, when she had been a teacher, been a member of the IEU, which is the union…

Recently, the IEU was invited to take part in an event organized by ACDE – the Australian Council of Deans of Education. As I understand it, this is a peak body made up of Heads of Schools and their equivalents from tertiary education providers. THe purpose of the event was ’Collaborating to Improve the Status…

So, another 4 years for the Liberal-National Coalition in NSW. I must admit, I’m not particularly surprised. I’ve not seen such a limpid and uninspiring campaign for a long time. For the first time, in about a decade, I didn’t have much to do with this campaign. I refused to: mostly because I was so…

The IEU has long been a supporter of environmental activists, especially in the fields of active citizenship and environmental education. We’ve been represented at climate marches, we run an environmental grant program with teh support of Teachers’ Mutal Bank and we regularly host both face to face and online teachmeets about environmental issues. Our plan…

Not surprisingly for anyone who knows anything about my research interests, I’ve been following the school climate strike quite closely. Firstly, I think it’s an incredible event and social movement; getting all those people out on strike is a challenge even for seasoned organisers is a challenge. For students to do it is even more…

CONTEXT: This is another example of my ongoing work – but this is slightly different. I’ve got a lot of projects on the go at the moment -what can I say, I’m easily distracted by new and shiny things – so I thought a good way of managing what I am working on, what I…

So one of the ways that I want to start using this blog is to record some of my experiments with coding, making, 3d scanning and printing and other odds and ends more generally. It’s not going to be academic in any way, shape or form (although I guess I am quite interested in maker…