Jonathon Dallimore

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

I think the description misses a really important point though: schools/teachers are often under pressure to do this out of competition. I've read some good stuff on how the marketisation encourages a lot of what is described.

If you listened closely to Hegseth and Trump, they were saying that the US military should be more like the Russian military--unaccountable for its actions, using lethality in favor of intelligence, and where training can be used to abuse recruits.

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

From the very first edition of 'Teaching History' (NSW) in 1961. It's refreshing to see so many historic examples of thoughtful teachers working through popular pedagogy trends rather than jumping on bandwagons uncritically or taking up fundamentalist positions.

Meet the Revolutionaries and Ratbags who shaped the world as we know it!

Was hugely fun to co-host this new history podcast with Francis Leach looking at some of history's great rebels and revolutionaries, and to discuss what this history means for us today

B+W photo of Charles Bean at work, c. 1920s. AWM A05389.

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Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb.

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The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

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Guess where former defence ministers are? 👀

The revolving door is a real obstacle to good governance and it should be SHUT.

Authors warn AI copyright exception a 'free pass' for Big Tech to steal work The Productivity Commission's interim report on AI has triggered a fierce backlash from the literary community.

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This is an extremely brief summary of what sounds like a truly bizarre experience. He was in utter disbelief, but it was also helpful in that he knew that he certainly didn't want to work there (and it's not because he's a dirty discovery learner).

Just heard from a colleague who inquired about a job advert at a school and was told by a senior leader that they might find it difficult because their previous school (this leader has never worked at) 'is dedicated to discovery learning' and 'here we use Rosenshine'. Getting weirder by the day.

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Labor asks Deloitte to design universal childcare system as PM eyes political legacy Exclusive: Government could redirect billions in existing spending on the childcare subsidy and introduce a daily flat fee for families

First of all, WHY CONSULTANTS!? I thought Labor was supposed to be weaning off them? You could've gotten academics or NGOs to do this research??

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I know it doesn't mean a lot in the big scheme of things given that the category is so niche, but it's still a nice surprise to see my little book on Teaching History hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list after 6 months in the wild. Its first review is a lovely 5/5 from a teacher in the UK.

Flinders History seminar flyer for Matt Fitzpatrick, 8 August.

If you're looking for an online seminar about the British, Germans and French in Siam before WWI, and you'd like to see me try and use microhistory to speak to transimperial history, then send me a DM or email and I'll give you the password to my seminar next Friday here at Flinders.

Definitely agree. Clearly some ground to cover, but I like their prospects under Gill tbh. I think there’s something there and I think the fact that they managed this last one without Bumrah will help. In Australia, it looked a bit like a one man show at times.

The best. That’s two very strong tours from India in the last 6-7 months. Pushed Australia hard and then basically broke England. Impressive stuff.

India!!!!!! That game swung every which way a few times over five days and down to 6 runs 🤯 #INDvsENG

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Headline AI is coming for the consultants. Inside Mackinsey, this is existential If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?

Honestly, this one I'm okay with

Last night, we had a wonderful evening co-hosting the History Now session 'Teaching History' at the Chau Chak Wing Museum!

Thank you to Jonathon Dallimore and Professor Tim Allender for their wonderful presentations, and to @drcraigb.bsky.social for all his work in curating the event

Copies of my new book on the Pacific War have arrived! I really enjoyed working on this with an old friend and working some new features into the book. We worked hard to bring it up to date with recent scholarship while still ensuring that it’s accessible to students.

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4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot