A Day Well Spent at Pymble Ladies’ College
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…
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,…
It’s not magic, it’s business
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…
Never stop learning!
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…
Leadership in practice
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.…