In what has been a bumper period for Civics and Citizenship Education (CCE) in Australia, the NAP-CC report for 2024 was released this week, and immediately caused an uproar, as it indicated that the percentage of Australian students meeting the level of proficient had fallen (from what were already pretty low levels). This marks a…
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Some initial thoughts on the JSCEM Report on CCE in Australia
A couple of weeks ago, the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters released their report “From Classroom to Community” which examined civics and citizenship education in Australia. It coincided with the delayed (due to COVID) release of the NAP-CC results (more on that later). This has contributed to something of a ‘boom’ in civics and…
Presentation at ICSEI 2025
This is the presentation that I did, with my colleagues, to ICSEI 2025, about our planned project on early career coaching.
Presentation to Brush Farms Corrective Services Academy
I recently was asked to deliver a short session on online learning for Brush Farms. This is the third time I’ve visited them – I really value the chance to work with them. I decided to model my presentation on the way that principles of good learning (such as M. David Merrill’s) are still relevant…
Book Review: The Next Word
Here’s the second book review for this year. Again, I will post my review first, and then ChatGPT’s review following that. Also, another disclaimer: I know Matt and consider him a friend, a colleague and a fantastic educator. It seems like we’re probably right in the middle of the hype cycle regarding artificial intelligence and…
Book Review: The Best Way to Learn is to Make: Creativity In A Gen AI World
A little bit of fun for some books that I am going to read over the course of this year. I am going to post my own, approximately 400 word review, and then, below it, I will post ChatGPTs 400 word review. I think it will be an interesting exercise to compare the two. Disclaimer:…
Open Education Global Conference 2024
This is a presentation that I did at the OE Global Conference, 2024 in Brisbane, Australia. Although, to be honest, my colleagues Jenny and Mais did the vast majority of the work and deserve the full credit for the presentation.
Explore XR 2024
This was my presentation at the Explore XR Conference, held in Sri Lanka. I zoomed in as an assist for the conference organiser, Brad Chesham – that’s why some of the slides are re-used from previous presentations.
ALARA 2024
This was my presentation about our PAR Collaborative at the ALARA 2024 Conference at UTS
GRS 2024 Presentation
These are the slides for a presentation I did about supervising distance and remote HDR students for the UTS Graduate Research School.