This is a presentation that I did to Charles Darwin University pre-service teachers about games and gamification.
Category: Education
#eduReading: Rethinking the Role of Pracademics, Social Media and Democracy in Doing Educational Research
This is a presentation that I did with Steven Kolber at AARE 2021.
Providing Automated Video Feedback to Increase Student Engagement
This is a presentation that I delivered as part of the UTS Teaching and Learning Forum.
SCEAA Conference 2021: Day One
This is an excerpt from my summing up from the SCEAA Conference Day One It now falls to me to try to recap what we’ve covered today, and perhaps, if I’m feeling brave, to try to weave together some of the many themes that we’ve covered today. To help me out here, I’d like to…
Back to the future: What’s changed for active citizenship?
Recently, the Federal Education Minister, Alan Tudge, called upon the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) to substantially rewrite the new draft of the Australian Curriculum. Among other subjects, he focused on History and Civics and Citizenship, arguing that, in the new draft, “important historical events are removed or reframed, such as the emphasis on invasion theory over Australia Day. Even…
How to bridge the teacher and academic divide online
The Problem & the Proposal One of the most widely accepted facts in education is that teachers and academics often do not mix. This hurts teachers engagement with research and its application in the classrooms. Social media, and Twitter especially, holds the potential to bring together teachers, academics, and others within shared spaces to develop…
Paper: Education focused pracademics on twitter: building democratic fora
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…
#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…