Google is changing: Are we ready?
Photo by sarah b on Unsplash Do you remember a time when the word ‘Google’ wasn’t a verb? When we didn’t casually ‘Google’ any question that came to mind or problem that needed to be solved? Since its launch in…
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
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The Answer Is in the Library. We Keep Looking Elsewhere.
Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash The shocking results of the 2025 National Assessment Program – ICT Literacy (NAP‑ICTL) report are right to attract media attention. In 2025, only 37% of Year 10 students across Australia met or exceeded the…
Linked, stretched, amplified: From information skills to connected professional learning
This is the third post in the Linking Learning Advisory launch series. If you missed the first two, you can find them on the blog — they set the scene for why connected professional learning matters and what Linking Learning…
Reading the signal: The people who teach us to think
There is an education professional who, in the schools fortunate enough to have one, spends their career helping students and teachers to do something that the rest of the professional world is only now recognising as urgent: think well with…
Tuning in: Taking your attention back
Your attention is one of the most contested resources in your professional life. Platforms are engineered to capture it. Algorithms decide what you see based on what keeps you scrolling, not what serves your thinking. Information arrives faster than it…
Keeping the Human in the Loop: Lessons on AI, Ethics, and Learning Across Three Conferences
Reflections on Generative AI Across Three Conferences In the last fortnight, I’ve been fortunate to be invited to present at three very different yet equally inspiring conferences – the International Staff Training Week at the Silesian University of Technology (SUT)…
Responding to challenges together: Higher Education in an AI-Driven World
Last week I was privileged to be invited to present at the annual ISTW conference themed Higher Education in an AI-Driven World: Project-Based Learning as a Gateway to Real-Life Educational Experiences, hosted by the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice,…
School Library Professionals as Leaders: Why Leadership Theory Matters
Part 1: Understanding Leadership as Part of the School Library Professional’s Role This is the first post in a series that updates my previously posted articles on school library professionals and leadership. Whether it is writing the library’s strategic plan,…
School Library Professionals as Leaders: Using Leadership Theory to “Read the Room”
Part 2: Understanding Leadership Styles and Frames to Influence School Culture In the first post of this series, I explored how leadership is inherent in the role of the teacher librarian (TL) and school library professionals, even if it’s not…
School Library Professionals as Leaders: Practising Strategic Leadership
Part 3: Leading from Where You Are This is an update of my previous three leadership articles posted some years’ ago on this blog. In the first two posts of this series, we established that leadership is already embedded in…