Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
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…
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…
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)…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
Recent research has shone a spotlight on media literacy in Australia, but the findings reveal a much larger issue at play. The Adult Media Literacy in 2024: Australian Attitudes, Experiences and Needs report highlights significant gaps in Australians’ ability to…
Watching AI generate text for the first time can seem like magic. However, when it comes down to it, it’s not magic, it’s business – and a hugely profitable one at that. Since the weekend, there have been numerous articles…
As someone who has spent a lot of time reading, researching and reflecting about social media, I felt it was incumbent upon me to join the conversation about the current state of social media even though, like so many, I…