Disrupted History

HISTORY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE

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  • The VUCA Teacher – Navigating Disintermediation in the AI Age | Some Quick Thoughts

    The VUCA Teacher: Agile, Ethical, and Essential in an AI-Driven World There is an ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. I certainly believe the times are interesting. As I sit at home, waiting for Tropical Cyclone Alfred to make landfall, I reflect on the instability of the world around me. The Trump-Vance Read more

  • What happens when students are asked to use AI not just to find answers, but to help them to think critically?

    This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 7 | February 28, 2025 This week, I pushed hard – harder than expected – to challenge assumptions about technology, inquiry, and the very nature of learning. What unfolded revealed to me some deep gaps in search literacy, possibly an over-reliance on hard structuring, and a troubling reluctance by some Read more

  • Is senior schooling more about performance than learning?

    This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 6 | February 28, 2025 Perhaps, schools have become factories of performance, where measurable results matter more than curiosity, critical thinking, or intellectual growth. If so AI might do more than threaten traditional assessment models. Maybe it’ll also exposing an even bigger flaw in education: what if schooling itself has Read more

  • The McNamara Fallacy of Education | Some Quick Thoughts

    Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, was infamous for his obsession with numbers. He believed that if you could quantify something – if you could track it, measure it, put it on a neat spreadsheet – you could control it. The war became a numbers game. Body counts went up, Read more

  • Book Review | Jonathon Dallimore’s Teaching History: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers

    Jonathon Dallimore’s Teaching History: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers is a book that many history educators, including myself, are currently engaging with. If you have been on that journey, I’m sure that you can see the value in this text. I’d highly recommend this book. For teacher-educators, it would make an excellent set Read more

  • This Online Reader’s Digest: February 17 – 21, 2025

    The Flight School: Reimagining the Path to Adulthood (Abby Falik); Is Micromanaging Classes a Recipe for School Success? (Troy Closson and J. David Goodman); Rethinking civics education starts with inviting teens to co-create (Tyler Samstag and Fernande Raine) The Flight School: Reimagining the Path to Adulthood | Getting Smart – Abby Falik One of the Read more

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