Disrupted History

HISTORY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE

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  • 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

  • From Levels to Learning: Rethinking AI Assessment in History Departments

    How do we meaningfully design assessment of and for learning when the presence of AI tools fundamentally changes the game? Earlier this term, I was invited to present to a group of school curriculum leaders who are preparing to reimagine assessment for the 2026 school year. The timing is both exciting and daunting. These leaders… Read more

  • On Bubbles and Burners: Teaching for Cognitive Friction in the Age of AI

    We’re entering a moment in education where the learning process itself is up for renegotiation. With generative AI now accessible to every student with a keypad, the temptation is real: skip the hard part, avoid the struggle, bypass the friction. Tools like Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude are fluent, persuasive, and increasingly responsive — so, the… Read more

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