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Programming Pedagogies (Grok) Caroline Tromans, Drew Eastlake, Dan Hickman See: https://grok.ac/ictensw-2023 for Grok activities and http://grok.ac/ICTENSW2023 for folder of resources on SharePoint Two ideas types of activities: Other links: Creativity and Computational and Design Thinking Bronwyn Tregenza Ran a workshop … Continue reading →

A wonderful colleague of mine, Professor Tiffany Jones, just shared the following guides on how to use appropriate language for Indigenous and LGBTIQ+ groups. A guide to writing and speaking about Indigenous People in Australia: LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Language Guides: All worth noting and … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting sequence of work by a colleague of mine, Eva Bonser, using Artificial Intelligence to be creative. Here is a story generated after simply typing “Tell me a story about a balloon” using https://chat.openai.com/ Once upon a time, … Continue reading →

Lots of interesting resources on the International Technology & Engineering Educators Association https://www.iteea.org/ :

The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) is pleased to inform us that new secondary syllabuses have been released as the next milestone of the NSW Curriculum Reform. The syllabuses and information about implementation are available on the Digital Curriculum: Schools can plan … Continue reading →

Home schooling is understandably placing a lot of strain on parents and families. One of the parent WhatsApp groups that I am on for my son’s school regularly has comments about frustration with home schooling, often involving feelings of being … Continue reading →

Recently I was fortunate to be one of four recipients of an Australian Award for University Teaching Excellence (2020). This was a great honour, and testimony to the support and encouragement I have received from innumerable colleagues over the years. … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing a tiny bit of investigation about good resources for gifted and high potential primary school students, in anticipation of the new NSW Department of Education High Potential and Gifted Education Policy that comes into effect next year. … Continue reading →

In order to support educators and researchers worldwide to use the most up-to-date technologies and best understand the web-based technologies terrain, my colleague Jodie Torrington and I have just released the 2020 Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies. The 2020 … Continue reading →