Who’s Reading For You Now?
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…
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Building judgement and capability in complex information environments
Category Teacher Librarians
Library-Maxxing and why this is the trend we need now
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…
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…
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…
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)…
School Library Professionals as Leaders: Why Leadership Theory Matters
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,…
School Library Professionals as Leaders: Using Leadership Theory to “Read the Room”
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…
School Library Professionals as Leaders: Practising Strategic Leadership
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…
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…
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…