"When a machine can now mimic the work of a human being, many of us, especially students, must be asking what the point is anymore. That’s a much more dangerous and slippery problem than students submitting AI-generated work."
"GenAI may be pushing education back toward its oldest form ‘to understand language – and perhaps even thinking itself – we need to start with the spoken word’. ...what resonates for me is simpler: the connection between people when we speak, learning from each other, sharing stories. Yarning."
"Before the ‘Big Five’ and explicit direct instruction (EDI) take root as immutable hegemonic ‘truths’ we need to heed the OECDs advice and do some epistemic archeology – a mining of the past in order to reclaim the breadth and depth of what is known about teaching and learning."
Spoke with parents whose three kids (in their 20s) work at big orgs — they’re pushing them to be ready to create their own jobs by their 40s. Are schools preparing students for that future? Who’s doing it well? #Education #FutureOfWork #Entrepreneurship
The metaphor I was trying to grab mid-conversation (and utterly botched)
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This vocabulary list is exactly what's needed. The biggest barrier to systems change isn't disagreement. It's people using the same words to mean different things across disciplines. 'Resilience' means one thing in ecology, another in psychology, another in engineering. A shared vocabulary doesn't
“I think what a lot of schools are facing today is a rise of pedagogical authoritarianism. This remarkable certainty that we know how every child learns.”
Quite a conversation, especially for this moment.
(In other words: listen to this!)
Systems thinking isn’t about control, it’s about listening, learning, and dancing with complexity. Watch the system, honour feedback, expand horizons, embrace uncertainty, and act for the good of the whole. #SystemsThinking #DonellaMeadows #Complexity donellameadows.org/dancing-with...
Systems practices help us see the whole, work across levels, spot connections, embrace complexity, engage diverse perspectives, understand power, and question assumptions. Change is systemic and adaptive. #SystemsThinking www.schoolofsystemchange.org/blog/systems...
Here is a systems change vocab to “speak the same language” across learning, strategy, and networks. Key words: complexity, emergence, feedback loop, leverage point, polycrisis, regenerative practice, resilience… resense360.com/systems-chan...
Click through to the March 2026 Communique from the Australian Association for Research in Education: Toward Greater Impact for Australian Education: The Case for Research, Evidence and ‘Truth’. https://loom.ly/0VskLss
Let’s be interested in what they think 😃
“Schools are deeply, systemically, structurally antithetical to curiosity.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7w...
The more planned and structured you are in the classroom, the more flexible you can actually be.
The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.
Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.
Priorities.
What feels like a pretty clear trend over the last 25 years: more and more adults working in education but not in actual schools
What we have zero evidence of: students and schools being better off as a result of this
“AI 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.
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“Four lessons for educators: defending moral purpose in education development; learning from constructive “good 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...
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?
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...
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
“If 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...
New research on system-wide change. Real-World Learning, a project-based pedagogy disrupts the traditional “grammar of schooling,” reshapes curriculum & assessment, and reconnects school to community. A powerful case for moving beyond outdated models.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5XIWJ...
📚 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.
"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...
"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."
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