Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
When Victorians vote on 28 November, first-time voters will cast a ballot with a phone full of opinions and potentially even more questions about which one to trust. The McKinnon Index 2026, released on 2 November, suggests that for many,…
Read the conference programs, the policy updates and the petitions of the past few months together, and a pattern emerges. The conversation has moved away from platforms toward a focus on pedagogy. As someone who has spent years arguing that…
It is Library and Information Week, and this year’s theme is Truth Be Told. ALIA frames it around a plain observation: truth used to be something you could point to, and now it is stretched, shaped and sometimes buried. Libraries…
I picked up my phone last week to check a detail in a novel I was halfway through, and I saw an advertisement for Google’s Play Books app which offered to save me the trouble. Its new AI companion, Book…
Too much of anything is not good for us, but tell that to fans of (insert trend here)-maxxing. Back when I went to parties back in the early 1980’s, my friends and I happily participated in lolly-maxxing and for most…
It is important that we stop and reflect when we are privileged to have a truly fantastic day; a day that leaves your brain and heart so full that the work doesn’t feel like work at all. My day with…
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…
Download a PDF infographic summarising the information from this post. 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%…
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…