Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
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,…
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…
Featured image at the top of this post created by Midjourney, prompt by Kay Oddone It is true that as an educator, you never top learning – in both the informal and formal sense. This year I have begun completing…
Thank you for joining me for the third and final installment of the Teacher Librarian as Leader blog post series. If you have missed the first two posts, consider jumping back to the start to read all three in order.…
As Brisbane enters its second day of a three day lock down, I have been thinking about how much more we have come to rely upon our online tribe since this time last year. Although here in Queensland we have…
We were always moving towards providing more formal learning experiences via online media, but the lockdowns of 2020 gave online learning an almighty push. While blended learning opportunities, where students has the option of attending on-campus lectures as well as…
Returning to a K-12 school environment after several years’ teaching at a Masters’ level at University has given me interesting insights into the way younger students engage with the research process. At different stages through their Primary/Elementary years, students are…
The open movement has been defined as: An informal, worldwide phenomenon characterised by the tendency of individuals and groups to work, collaborate and publish in ways that favour accessibility, sharing, transparency and interoperability. (Couros & Hildebrandt, 2016, p.145) A feature…