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Robot revision: Year 12s versus the machines
I’ve been posting a lot recently about AI in education, particularly the potential impact of AI writers in the English classroom. I’m being optimistic too: I don’t think that AI writers are heralding the end of days for human authors. Nor do I think we’re ushering in an age of dubious ethics and constant cheating […]
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Replacing myself with robots: Why I’m leaving the classroom
There are a few reasons why I’ve decided to leave the classroom. I’m lucky – I’m not burned out or disenfranchised with education. In fact, I’ve never felt more enthusiastic about education as a whole, despite the complications of a first semester fraught with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. But the lockdowns, remote learning, […]
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An AI wrote this essay (and then I had to mark it)
I’ve written several posts now on the potential impact of AI in education, especially in the English classroom. These have explored AI co-authored essays, the ethics and critical literacy of robot writers, and most recently an exploration of how we might use AI for creative writing. But I have not used an AI writer to […]
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Two Truths and a Lie: We’re All Teachers of Literacy
There are two times a year when a cohort of teachers is likely to be told “we’re all teachers of literacy”: at the start of Term 1, after the release of VCE and HSC results, and after NAPLAN results go public. It’s a line worn smooth with overuse, to the point where it is basically […]
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Remote in the Regions: what we’ve learned
It’s been less than 12 months since regional Victorian schools were last in lockdown. Although it might seem like a hazy memory, there was still a great deal of uncertainty around the return to face to face during the T2/3 holidays this time last year. By the 5th of August, all Vic schools returned to […]
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The Authorbot Diaries: Creative writing from the mind of a machine
This is the third post in a series (of two posts… so clearly I got carried away) on AI writers and their possible use in the English classroom, and education as a whole. For the previous posts, see here: Do Androids Dream of Electric Essays? AI in the English Classroom I, Writerbot: Critical Literacy in […]
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Guest Post: Ashleigh Cavalin – Practical Reading Strategies for Romeo & Juliet
Now that Practical Reading Strategies has been out in the wild for a few months, I’ve started to receive feedback from teachers around how they’re using the book in their classrooms. This post is courtesy of Ashleigh Cavalin at Kilvington Grammar School. Ashleigh has taken PRS and adapted the activities to target her audience of young male […]
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I, Writerbot: Critical Literacy in an Age of Machine Authors
This is the second post on the topic of AI writers. For the first post, on the nature and purpose of essay writing when AI can write almost as well as our students, click here 👇 Critical Literacy and Digital Texts Critical literacy is an essential skill, both in the English classroom and beyond. It […]
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VCE English Crafting Texts Mentor Collection
To support teachers with the first year of the new Crafting Texts Area of Study in Unit 1 English, I’ve put together this collection of 12 texts from a variety of fiction and nonfiction forms around the idea of ‘Futures’. According to the new VCE English and EAL Study Design, “The mentor texts can include […]
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Guest Post: Fiona Simmonds – Practical Reading Strategies and Design Thinking
Now that Practical Reading Strategies has been out in the wild for a few months, I’ve started to receive feedback from teachers around how they’re using the book in their classrooms. This post is courtesy of Fiona Simmonds at Port Melbourne Secondary College. Fiona has used many of the activities in PRS in her classes. […]
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