Disrupted History

HISTORY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE

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  • Beware The Illusion of Mastery

    A teacher’s review of Lodge & Loble on AI, cognitive offloading, and what we must protect in learning Over the past few years, there’s been a dramatic shift taking hold in classrooms. It’s not just that students can now “get help” faster via AI. It’s that help can arrive as a fully formed performance: fluent,… Read more

  • Beyond the Factory Floor: Reimagining Classrooms as Shared Workshops in an AI Age

    Neat rows. Evenly spaced. Silence. A singular way of working. The teacher’s desk as a command post. One size fits all. For more than a century, the default classroom has looked like a small factory floor – built for mass-production, efficiency, supervision, and standardised output. When I started teaching in the 1980s, I discovered something… Read more

  • Ethical AI Needs To Be More Than A Feel-Good-Phrase: Why We Need An Ethical Vocabulary for AI in Schools

    Generative AI is now woven into the daily life of schools. It’s in students’ and teachers’ pockets, on their devices, and … and in their writing… increasingly it’s a central part to the way we work in schools. In that context, rightly, one line keeps surfacing in meetings, policy drafts, and conference keynotes: “We must… Read more

  • “We can work together to build a world worth living in”: The Castlereagh Statement

    Bindaay-girr yamMarraal juuda-ndidarruy guunuwaygu “We can work together to build a world worth living in” (Muurrbay Language) Kindly gifted to the Castlereagh Statement by the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-Operative On 26 August 2025, an email landed in my inbox inviting me to take part in a Future of Australian Education in the Era… Read more

  • Yellow Woods, Yellow Taxis, Yellow Lights: Choosing An AI Path as Others Pave A Road

    Recently I blogged about Grumpy Vince. If I had to assign a colour scheme to him, that colour would have black and blue hues. If I’m honest, this week it’s felt a bit more like Coldplay: “So then I took my turn… oh, what a thing to have done… and it was all yellow.” Perhaps… Read more

  • Beyond Buzzwords: More Perspectives for the Perplexed

    Reflections on MIT’s Guidebook to AI in Schools (Part 2) This post has been a long time coming. Partly because of reasons outlined in depth in my Grumpy Vince post of earlier this week – and partly because it’s easier than I’d like to admit to stay at the level of motherhood statements when we… Read more

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