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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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:…
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.
AISNSW 2024 Presentation
This was a presentation by my colleagues (in my absence) at the AISNSW 2024 Conference.
Poisoning the well of the digital commons
The idea of the tragedy of the commons is well established; I think the term was first coined in the mid 20th century, but the idea is much older. Simply put, it’s the concept that if people are given free access to a resource, humans being humans, the resource will get overused and eventually destroyed…
The pleasure of expertise
I was recently invited to facilitate an event held at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta. It was hosted by Learning Environments Australia, who are an organisation with an interest in designing school environments – so a mix of architects and educators. I must admit I hadn’t heard of them before, which was a shame,…
Assessment, GenAI and the differences between sectors
I’ve kind of let my blogging go for about a year, what with everything else going on. But I recently attended an Apple Education Community Summit (an excellent event – for the first time, we had Apple Learning Coaches, Apple Distinguished Educators, and teachers from Apple Distinguished Schools all together) and that inspired me to…