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3 Essential Principles for AI in Education: Reflections on Publishing Our GAI in Education Article
A teacher-led framework for using generative AI to deepen thinking, foster discernment, and support student agency. Last week, I experienced one of those quiet, surreal moments of pause: the kind you get when a milestone you’ve been working toward for months suddenly clicks into place. My first major peer-reviewed article of my PhD candidature, Generative… Read more
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Prompting the Past: Teaching Ancient Egypt in the Age of AI
A few recent posts online had me reflecting this week about some experiences using Microsoft Copilot (then Bing) over the last couple of years. In late 2023, my Year 7 History students completed a task that wove together ancient belief systems, source-based historical writing, and the trial-and-error logic of prompting. Their mission was to research… Read more
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“Not Either/Or”: Getting to Explorer Mode from the Springboard of Explicit Instruction
Why explicit instruction and inquiry aren’t mutually exclusive Last week, I travelled to Canberra for the HALT Summit – a professional learning experience that felt more like a reinvigorating recalibration than the ‘stock standard’ conference. Amid the powerful conversations about impact, innovation, brain science, leadership, and pedagogy, it was Nathaniel Swain’s keynote that had me… Read more
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The Slow Power of Objects: Expanding the Space for Wonder in My History Classroom
In recent months, I’ve been reflecting on how to purposefully integrate Object-Based Learning (OBL) into my history classes. It strikes me that any fundamental shift in how we think about designing history pedagogy for the AI era should allow for increasing opportunities to engage with the physical world around them. I believe we should imagine… Read more
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Beyond the Bus Ride: Some Reflections on Building Impactful in Field Trips and Excursions
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know I don’t believe doing things – including excursions or field trips – just for the sake of ticking a curriculum box or burning up a bus budget. Teachers need to act with purpose. They must know their why. To me our purpose is clear. We… Read more
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More Than a Game: Using the Goosechase Scavenger Hunt to Foster Presence, Connection and Agency in History Education
In 2019, at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia, I was introduced to a mobile platform called Goosechase EDU. Marketed as an app for gamified learning, it promised student engagement through scavenger hunt-style missions. That kind of language can feel gimmicky, especially for a subject like History, where the goal is often deeper thinking and ethical… Read more
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