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Playing in the gap between learning and schooling. Less us, more them. πŸŽ“πŸ’‘πŸ“šβœοΈπŸŒŽπŸŒ±

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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day' As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on its read for March, Art Cure, author Daisy Fancourt gives a sneak preview into the myriad ways in which the arts can improve our health

Great headline…and article!

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

28.02.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
What does it mean to be a "facilitator of learning"? How is an educator's role shifting in the Age of AI? - LearnerStudio Arc of the Teaching Role In Plato’s Phaedrus, when the god Theuth brought the gift of writing to King Thamus, Thamus balked. Writing, he warned, would β€œproduce forgetfulness in the soul”. Writing woul...

β€œAI can’t feel the room. It can’t sense when a student needs encouragement, or when a joke will break the tension.”

Students won’t remember which AI model they used… they’ll remember who taught them to think without one.

learnerstudio.org/what-does-it...

26.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An accidental guru: The making of an education warrior This reflective essay traces the author’s journey from a village school in northern Finland to international roles in educational policy, research, an…

β€œFour lessons for educators: defending moral purpose in education development; learning from constructive β€œgood trouble”; responding courageously to unexpected opportunities to lead and learn; and reframing disappointment as a source of renewal and possibility.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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7 Things Teachers Say to Create a Supportive Classroom The things teachers say can cut deeply or build a lasting foundation for success. Here are seven teacher-tested expressions to try this year.

Words matter! These teacher-tested phrases go a long way in empowering learners and creating a supportive classroom. 🧑

Are there any you’d add to the list?

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Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows

The most valuable skill of the future: Knowing how to talk to AI. Chatbots diagnosed medical problems correctly 94% of the time when researchers asked, but only 34% when regular people asked. The gap isn't the technology, it's the prompt. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

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Here is my story (open access) about the making of an education warrior. It is probably not what you expect. I leave it to you to judge. Published today by Elsevier's International Journal of Educational Development. lnkd.in/gGBKuhkt

24.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies The founder of the field of AI risk explains why superintelligent AI is a global suicide bomb and we must halt development immediately

β€œIf any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI, then everyone, everywhere on earth, will die.” www.penguin.com.au/books/if-any...

21.02.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Towards a new grammar of schooling: the effects of system-wide implementation of the project-based pedagogy β€˜Real-World Learning’ (RWL) on teaching and learning at a Canadian public school board This paper answers Mehta and Datnow’s (2020) call for research on schools that have disrupted the traditional educational practices known as the grammar of schooling. It reports on a case study of ...

New research on system-wide change. Real-World Learning, a project-based pedagogy disrupts the traditional β€œgrammar of schooling,” reshapes curriculum & assessment, and reconnects school to community. A powerful case for moving beyond outdated models.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5XIWJ...

14.02.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Curiosity is the thing that drives you to figure out who you really are," with Jimmy Hatch ”Basically, being comfortable is dangerous. If you’re not asking questions and trying to figure out more about life, are you really living?” ~ Jimmy Hatch JamesΒ Hatch spent 26 years in military servic...

lynnborton.com/2026/02/12/c...

12.02.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“š From phone bans boosting grades to microbreaks, handwriting > typing, AI cuts SPED paperwork but hurts writer recall, and the power of relationships, recess & productive struggle. Research worth reading.

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Are Schools Ready to Face the Next 10 Years? Planning assumes continuity. Strategy assumes disruption. Scenario-Informed Strategy helps schools test assumptions, not just write better plans.

"The future will not reward schools that plan harder. It will reward schools that choose more deliberately who they are becoming."

morningtide.com.au/insights/are...

07.02.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Dependence on AI has created students who can’t think, can’t write, can’t create. For hundreds of years education has been a decidedly linear process: memorise the content, write the assignment, take the test, rinse and repeat."

www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-aust...

07.02.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Setting the Standards: who chooses 'best practice'? A review of Australian Professional Standards for Teachers is due to Jason Clare this month. Who gets to set the Standards?

"If systems prize uniformity, they privilege explicit directives regarding acceptable teaching practices. If systems value professional judgements to meet students in their context, they invest in expert teachers."

blog.aare.edu.au/setting-the-...

04.02.2026 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Might get me in trouble...

UDL and inclusion without assessment reform is an unnecessary, unproductive, and undue burden on the back of teachers.

28.01.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using Questions to Encourage Emergent Learning Understanding the importance of preschool students’ questions is key to guiding their learning experiences and fostering a spirit of inquiry.

β€œThe pedagogy of emergent curriculum is grounded in the idea that when we use the children’s questions to guide their learning experiences, we honor the children’s intrinsic motivation and teach them that curiosity is a meaningful way to explore their world.”

#preschool #PreK

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Welcome back

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3 Informal Team Teaching Models That Work Teachers can gain the benefits of team teaching through observations, collaboration on projects, and effective use of technology.

Informal team teaching can have huge benefits! Consider: having a regular partner teacher for observations, collaborating on a project, or working with teachers at other schools over the computer. 🀝

#EduSky

23.01.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr

Really great new paper using agent-based modelling to show how an exploratory childhood can lead to innovation in the population at large.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

22.01.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really wish there was a column in teacher observation forms for "were students smiling and laughing?" because, at the end of the day, that might matter the most

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Letter to the System
YouTube video by WAM Podcast Letter to the System

Letter to the System is a youth-made short film grounded in The Power of Recognising More research. It shows why our education system is no longer fit for purpose, what real systemic change requires, and what a truly equitable future of learning could be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nan...

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Excited to have contributed to this publication. Thanks @icsei.bsky.social for the opportunity.

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McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul Candidates in pilot assessed on how they prompted consulting firm’s AI assistant and ability to adapt responses

"Candidates with liberal arts degrees 'might have been deprioritised in the past' but they had more 'truly novel’ ways of thinking that would complement some AI models’ inability to make 'discontinuous leaps' in logic."

www.ft.com/content/de78...

#AI #TOK #KnowledgeAndTechnology

15.01.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Wonderful Power of Storytelling,” by Bruce Sterling, 1991 *This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn’t been expecting much, because…

AI is eating the career of every creative whose work can be easily described, modeled and predicted.

Spend time learning how to think along orthogonal, unpredictable, new (or forgotten) paths... make your mind hard to model.

@bruces from the mist times:
bruces.medium.com/the-wonderfu...

14.01.2026 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Polycrisis How to Face Teaching in 2026

Here's my latest Substack post, titled "The Polycrisis: How to Face Teaching in 2026." open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

#education
#pedagogy
#polycrisis

11.01.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The old leadership playbook no longer works. What replaces it rests on a simple but demanding principle: energy follows attention & intention. Form follows consciousness. Which implies that you cannot change a system unless you transform the mindsets of the people who are enacting it. Otto Scharmer

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"The more a student talked in class, the better they performed in a reading literacy test." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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β€œMy best advice for other leaders going into 2026 is to learn how to live with uncertainty.”
Michael Hendrix β€” Managing Director, Invisible Notes.

β€œDon’t get stuck romanticizing what was. Fall in love with what can be.”
Sara Kalickβ€” Founder, The Possible.

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Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

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Endorsements for Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools

Tina Blythe: β€œtheoretically grounded, practical, and full of hope.”
Kath Murdoch: β€œA timely, powerful collectionβ€”I hope it’s in every staff room.”

Melbourne launch 13 Feb, Wesley College: events.humanitix.com/cultivating-...

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