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Whose Nation? Whose Story? Using AI to Confront Narrow Narratives in Year 9 History
If you grew up in Australia and studied history in the 1970s or 80s like I did, you likely encountered a story of nationhood that was neat, triumphant, and sanitised. It was a story of explorers, settlers, and infrastructure — a relentless march towards “progress”. For all its coherence, the cost of such a narrative… Read more
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“Wisdom of the Heart in the Age of AI: Reading Antiqua et Nova”
I recently spent time with the Vatican’s Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence, a document co-authored by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Education. At over a hundred paragraphs, it’s as theologically weighty as it is ethically urgent – wide-ranging,… Read more
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Brain-to-LLM, Cognitive Debt, and Being Strategic: Going behind the headlines of ‘that MIT paper’.
The recent MIT Media Lab study Your Brain on ChatGPT made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Accusatory articles and alarmist social media posts latched onto a simplistic narrative: that AI tools like ChatGPT are, in short, ‘cognitively corrosive’. But the real story is far more interesting and far more relevant to those of us… Read more
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Can AI Help Our Students Learn and Thrive? A Resounding Yes – But Only If We Act Wisely
At the 2025 EduTechAU conference in Sydney, I posed what might seem like a simple provocation: Can AI help our students learn and thrive? The answer I gave was emphatic: Yes. But – and this is a vital but – only if we as educators make thoughtful, urgent, and courageous decisions now. We are living… Read more
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So, what do we do? Reimagining Pedagogy – Four Numbers and a Call to Action
“It’s not about the technology. The human in the loop matters.” – A summary of my presentation to the 2025 QHTA State Conference. This June, I had the privilege of delivering a presentation titled Reimagining History: Refreshing Pedagogy for an AI-Disrupted Classroom. Set against a backdrop of rapid technological change and ever-growing teacher workload, the… Read more
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Wisdom Before Widgets: Profession Rose Luckin at EduTechAU Sydney 2025, AI, and the Urgency forVision in Education
I had the privilege of hearing Professor Rose Luckin speak live twice at EduTECH Australia 2025, and while her reputation as a global authority on AI in education certainly preceded her, it was the clarity, urgency, and humanity of her message that resonated most powerfully. Her keynote was not a sales pitch for the latest… Read more
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