Disrupted History

HISTORY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE

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  • Back From the Quiet: Why I’m Blogging Again in 2026 (and Why I Went Silent)

    Addressing the gaps and the silences: My last post was on 5 January. And then… nothing. What happened and what happens next? To be fair, my going silent online wasn’t a complete surprise. Some of you may not have even noticed. I hardly posted during the final quarter of the Australian school year – Term… Read more

  • Heading back to school in the AI Age? Here’s some “perspectives for the perplexed”

    Reflections on MIT’s Guidebook to AI in Schools (Part 1) If you were to ask me about Australian K-12 teachers’ response to the arrival of AI in schools, based upon my experience I’d suggest a walk into a staffroom in 2026 would reveal a range of responses. In many schools, I suspect there’d be some… Read more

  • Coach, Not Crutch: What a New Study on AI and Writing Tells Us About Learning

    If you’ve found yourself tinkering with ChatGPT to help write a cover letter or polish a paragraph, you’re not alone. But if you’ve worried that doing so might slowly rot your skills, you’re in good company too. That’s the worry that well-known researcher into ‘GRIT’ Angela Duckworth and her co-authors set out to test in… Read more

  • Doing the Flip: An End of Year Reflection on Flipped Learning in the History Classroom

    In the unfolding terrain of 21st-century education, history teachers are called to be more that simply narrators of the past. We are, increasingly, called to design of learning environments for engagement, agency, and meaning. In my own classroom, this shift has been most visible in my evolving use of a flipped learning model. When I… Read more

  • Some Reflections on Learning and AI in 2025

    Earlier this year, a question was posed to me – one that lodged itself under my skin, not because it was profound, but because it disappointed me. “Should learning be easy or hard?” I’ve never been one for deceptively simplistic binaries. To me, this question revealed something important: a conceptual flattening of what learning feels… Read more

  • Walking the Talk, Reflecting, and the Beginnings of AiTLAS

    I haven’t blogged this term – not out of a lack of ideas, but because Term 4 in Queensland operates on fast-forward. For my international readers, Term 4 represents the end of our school year. Term 4 for me felt like an eight-week sprint to the end of the school year. The first two weeks… Read more

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