Purpose – This paper explores the features of pracademic practice within online spaces where pracademics, academics and teachers interact. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses autoethnographic case studies to showcase the boundary- spanning thinking of two pracademics, one a practicing teacher, the other an early career researcher, to provide an overview of how pracademics are engaging with research…
Category: Education
#eduReading at #AussieEd
These are the provocations from the #AussieEd session I hosted with Steven Kolber.
Cruel Optimism and Education: 2021 Wyndham Lecture
I recently attended (online, of course) the 2021 Wyndham Lecture, which was given by Professor Bob Lingard and hosted by the NSW Institute for Educational Research. It is always a good event, and this one was certainly no different – it was a thoughtful and detailed analysis of the current state of play of education…
Teachers and Learning Analytics – what’s the connection?
It’s almost impossible to escape the notion that data is changing every aspect of our lives. ‘Big’ data is often conflated with ideas like artificial intelligence and machine learning, and also ethical issues like privacy and security. And, of course, these ideas have made their way into education, and that means that data, learning analytics and…
Podcast @ Parryville
Here’s me talking civics and citizenship with Mark Parry: https://soundcloud.com/mark-parry-3/keith-heggart
Warm, Wise Feedback and Automation
Here are my slides from a presentation I did with some colleagues about Warm Wise Feedback.
Getting started with XR (for teachers)
In one of the subjects that I teach, we talk about current and future trends in education, and especially as they relate to learning design. One of the topics that we spend a bit of time exploring is Extended Reality, which is the catch all term that I use to encapsulate Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality…
Review of the Australian Curriculum
So, the next version of the Australian Curriculum is currently out for public review. I will be contributing to a variety of submissions in a number of guises, but I also wanted to document my thoughts here, specifically as they related to Civics and Citizenship. I’ll start by beating my usual drum about the place…
Research Agenda for 2021: Part One (Civics and Citizenship)
So for 2021, now that I am starting to find myself more comfortable at UTS, I think that it’s time to really start applying myself with some dedication to my research agenda. This is going to be complicated by the increased amount of teaching that I am required to do, but I think that I…
Teachmeets and Learning Design
I’ve been looking at Teachmeets as a bit of a research interest for a couple of weeks now. I think it’s a really quite interesting space, and part of that interest comes from, I think, the different – and perhaps conflicting ways – that teachers are using movements like Teachmeets. Equally, I’m not entirely certain…