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
Category Information Literacy
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…
Digital and Information Literacy: The Bigger Picture Schools Cannot Ignore
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…
Will 2023 be the year of Artificial Intelligence?
*Updated 13/01/2022 with minor additions and formatting changes. Happy New Year! I’m making my first post in my refreshed online portfolio, with a new design and look for 2023! Thanks again for joining me and for taking the time to…
Understanding the changing nature of information literacy in education
A recent study exploring how college students conceptualize the online information landscape has found that information literacy approaches relying upon a ‘static’ presentation of information, which is sought by the student, does not reflect the current environment where algorithms and…