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Why AI and Flipped Learning Can Break the Cycle of Performative Schooling
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 9 | March 14, 2025 The Season of Ripening: Weeks 7–8 and the Shift in Student Focus Every term follows a seasonal rhythm. Early weeks are for sprouting new shoots of growth – introducing new ideas, laying conceptual foundations, and pushing students to think beyond their initial assumptions. Mid-term is… Read more
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Forget Prompt Engineering—Teachers Have the Real AI Superpower: Plussy & Vibeprompting Explained | Some Quick Thoughts*
Once upon a time, Clippy bounced onto our screens with an enthusiastic “It looks like you’re writing a letter!” and a well-meaning (but often unhelpful) set of suggestions. Clippy, Microsoft’s infamous Office Assistant, was an early attempt at making AI useful in our workflows. While it never quite got there, Clippy walked so today’s AI… Read more
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What happens when students stop seeing AI as a shortcut and start using it to think?
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 8 | March 7, 2025 This week, my students’ unscripted screen recordings revealed something unexpected. Perhaps skeptics became converts? Perhaps AI became a tool for deeper inquiry? But I also reflected on a new challenge that might be emerging: Could the ways we teach and work with AI create a… Read more
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Questions Asked and Answered: “How Can We Use AI to Shape Inquiry Questions in History?”
A reader asked: “Hints pls. How can we use AI to shape enquiry questions?” This is an important and timely question. AI can assist in refining the wording and articulation of inquiry questions, but should we rely on AI to generate them outright? I’d argue no. The power of inquiry lies in students developing a… Read more
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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
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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
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