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Challenging Erasure: Zazu Nova, AI, and A Transformative Pedagogy
“Zazu Nova, Where Are You?” In what I hoped to be an act of allyship, I tried to bring the activist Zazu Nova into my recent blog about how AI gendered action figures could be a ‘toybox’ for classroom critical thinking… but it seems that the world had other plans. In preparation for the activities… Read more
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Slow Teaching in an AI ‘Toybox’: Action Figures as a Prompt for Learning
There are a LOT of AI generated action figures – complete with packaging -being shared online at the moment. We’ve seen this kind of behaviour before from GenAI users but this time, the craze got me thinking more deeply. Like many, I’ve seen many in my professional LinkedIn feed as teachers, educators, consultants, and tech-types… Read more
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“Read the Research: Reclaiming Professionalism in an Age of Simplified Solutions” | This Reader’s Digest
A reflection on Nicole Brunker’s “Escape Oppression Now: Disrupt the Dominance of Evidence-Based Practice” (EduResearch Matters, AARE, June 2024) Not long ago, I shared a thoughtful, peer-reviewed journal article on pedagogy with a colleague. It offered a nuanced and evidence-rich critique of a dominant instructional trend — exactly the kind of piece that could spark… Read more
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Flippin’ Slow Teaching: Fostering Higher-Order Thinking in the AI Age | This Reader’s Digest
A reflection on: Hague, C. (2024), “Fostering higher-order thinking skills online in higher education: A scoping review”, OECD Education Working Papers, No. 306, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/84f7756a-en. There’s been a bit of online chatter this week that suggests this particular scoping review was in some way damning of flipped learning approaches. That puzzled me so I took a closer… Read more
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Slow Teaching in a VUCA Age: 9 Reflections from an AI-Disrupted High School Classroom
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 12 | April 6, 2025 As the first Australia teaching term for 2025 closes, for this post I’ve paused to reflect on what I’ve learned from living a full ‘seasonal cycle’ of my teaching model. A lot has unfolded yet I keep returning to one resonant idea: slow teaching. Slow… Read more
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Rethinking Assessment, Trust, and The Tyranny of Perfection
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 11 | March 29, 2025 This week, my classroom shifted mode again. Monday marked the start of what I refer to in my seasonal model of a unit as the “harvest season” – a high-stakes examination for my Year 9 and 10 students. While ‘the harvest’ title for this season… Read more
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