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‘The Standards you walk past are the Standards you accept.’
AITSL’s Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs) are being formally reviewed for the first time since their adoption more than fifteen years ago. The APST descriptors underpin many aspects of Australian K-12 teacher practice. The review is an opportunity to shape the future of the Australian teaching profession that you shouldn’t ignore. If educators don’t… Read more
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The Climb, the Scoreboard, and Assessment Integrity (Part 4 – ‘Clarion Clear’ Expectations and ‘Base Camps’)
Students need our help. They are kids. That statement may sound obvious, but it sometimes seems strangely absent from our AI conversations. We can tend to speak about students as though they are miniature adults making fully informed ‘grown up’ decisions about authorship, cognitive offloading, intellectual honesty, privacy, bias, data, assessment policy, and disciplinary thinking.… Read more
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The ‘Generative AI Learning Penalty’: Homework Outsourcing, Productive Struggle, and the Coming Exam Shock
Every now and then, a research paper lands hard. Not necessarily because it says something entirely new. Perhaps more often, it matters because it gives shape to something classroom teachers have already been sensing – but been unable to clearly articulate – in the messy middle of their practice. That’s my take on why David… Read more
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The Climb, the Scoreboard, and Assessment Integrity (Part 3 – Making the Climb Visible)
In Part 1 of this series, I argued that AI misuse in assessment is not only an integrity problem. It is also a teaching and learning problem. A motivation problem. A confidence problem. A habit problem. A metacognition problem. A task-design problem. A culture problem. And, perhaps most importantly, it is a problem created by… Read more
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The Climb, the Scoreboard, and Assessment Integrity (Part 2 – Grit and Yet)
Last week, in Part 1 of this reflection, I began with a memory: sitting at a red light near Perry Park in Brisbane with my young daughters, singing along to Miley Cyrus’ The Climb. That song played recently as I was working on some assessment. As I listened again to the lyrics, I reflected on… Read more
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The Climb, the Scoreboard, and Assessment Integrity (Part 1 – Some lessons from Miley Cyrus and Bill Walsh for AI-disrupted classrooms)
“The Climb” by Miley Cyrus serves as a metaphor for learning struggles amid growing concerns about AI’s impact on education. The author reflects on parental memories and emphasizes that genuine learning comes from navigating challenges, urging educators to ensure that AI supports, rather than replaces, essential cognitive engagement. Read more
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