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March 2026
1.3 Million Kids vs. The Internet
A Computational Roast Born Over Morning Coffee
When Australia's NAPLAN test crashed nationally, one educator saw a lesson plan. Two prompts, one coffee, and a fully interactive data visualisation that roasts the failure with mathematics, the Taylor Swift Ratio, and a server meltdown simulator.
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March 2026
Fieldtripping with AI
When the Tools Don't Exist, Build Them
The tools I needed didn't exist. So I built them. The entire digital infrastructure supporting a week-long school trip — a native iOS staff app, a GPS boundary system, a real-time scavenger hunt platform — was designed and built not by a software development team, but by me, their teacher, working in partnership with an artificial intelligence.
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A Chaotic 80 Minutes
When Learning Looks Like Mess
A Year 7 design lesson that looked like chaos. Students prototyping with AI, sharing discoveries across the room, and building a working multilingual translation tool for refugee families — all in a single lesson. Messy, loud, collaborative, and deeply human.
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Leading Learning in the Age of AI
Moving Beyond Anxiety Toward Amplified Human Creativity
Research warns that AI can diminish the cognitive work required for learning. But these findings reveal what happens when AI is used poorly, not what happens when it is used well. School leaders must move beyond anxiety toward a vision of AI as a partner for exploration and creativity.
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Leading Learning in 2026
Rebuilding the Library, Reading the Data, Rethinking What Matters
We rebuilt our school library as a digital learning ecosystem for the age of AI. Then we started watching how students actually use these tools, not to police them, but to understand what good AI-supported learning looks like in practice.
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