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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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Switching to Autopilot: Are We There Yet? From Technical to Metaphorical? From Tool to Cospecies?
Conversations describing teacher use of AI are changing (again). Initial educator conceptualisation of AI as ‘just another edtech tool’ have quickly crumbled – but the metaphor of seeing AI as a tool remains. That said, the tool as metaphor is also now fragmenting as early adopters and some first followers grapple with the conceptual nature… Read more
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Sleepwalking Through Disruption: Comfortable Delusions in a Revolutionary Age
I sometimes think people say they are fine with disruption… until it actually disrupts them. We are not in an age of approaching disruption. We are living inside it. And yet, as educator and technologist Dr Nick Jackson warns, many are sleepwalking into an educational crisis. One where institutions claim to embrace innovation while shuffling… Read more
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