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  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Essays? AI in the English Classroom

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Essays? AI in the English Classroom

    Rise of the Machines The term artificial intelligence was coined as early as 1956, at a conference in Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After a brief flurry of activity, government interest – and funding – dropped off dramatically until the 1980s, and it wasn’t until the 1990s that IBM’s Deep Blue caught the public eye when…

    Leon Furze

    June 5, 2022
    Digital
    AI, artificialintelligence, Digital, digitaltechnology, english, GPT3, writing
  • Creating a Culture of Reading

    Creating a Culture of Reading

    When I wrote Practical Reading Strategies I focused the entire first half of the book on providing instantly usable activities that a teacher could pick up and take into the classroom, adopting and extending them to suit their own students. But in the second half of the book, things get a little more philosophical, and…

    Leon Furze

    May 29, 2022
    reading, Reading Strategies
    english, reading, strategies
  • VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) 2023

    VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) 2023

    With between 3000-4000 students completing Unit 3 & 4 EAL each year, many schools will be adopting the upcoming 2023 EAL curriculum. The volume of students completing the EAL curriculum means it warrants plenty of attention in the upcoming update of the Study Design. Also, with around 400 schools in Victoria having a mix of…

    Leon Furze

    May 24, 2022
    assessment, curriculum, EAL, VCE
    curriculum, EAL, english, reading, VCE
  • VCE English and EAL 2023: Exploring Argument

    VCE English and EAL 2023: Exploring Argument

    This is the fifth in a series of posts on the upcoming 2023 VCE English and EAL Study Design. For the first four posts, see the links at the end. In the current Study Design, Analysing and Presenting Argument (APA) dominates 50% of the outcomes for Units 1 and 2. In Unit 1 “students focus…

    Leon Furze

    May 22, 2022
    assessment, curriculum, VCE
    assessment, curriculum, english, reading, VCE, writing
  • VCE English 2023: Mentor Texts and Ideas

    VCE English 2023: Mentor Texts and Ideas

    This is the fourth in a series of posts on the upcoming 2023 VCE English and EAL Study Design. For the first three posts, see the links at the end. Mentor Texts In the new Study Design mentor texts are “Texts to be read and re-read as models of effective and cohesive writing.” They are…

    Leon Furze

    May 19, 2022
    assessment, VCE, writing
    assessment, curriculum, education, english, strategies, VCE, writing
  • VCE English 2023: Crafting Texts

    VCE English 2023: Crafting Texts

    This is the third post in a series about the new VCE English Study Design. for the other two posts, check out the links below: Why Writing? For a long time there has been something of an imbalance in the modes in senior English. Between reading, writing, and speaking and listening, the skills required for…

    Leon Furze

    May 18, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • VCE English 2023: The Personal Response

    VCE English 2023: The Personal Response

    Over the next series of posts I’ll be exploring the upcoming changes to the VCE English Study Design for Units 1 and 2, which begins in 2023. These posts cover VCE English: with the expanded SD for EAL, English as an Additional Language now warrants a separate discussion which I’ll cover in a later post. For the previous post…

    Leon Furze

    May 16, 2022
    assessment, curriculum, VCE
    assessment, curriculum, english, reading, VCE, writing
  • The New VCE Study Design: Unit 1 and 2 Overview

    The New VCE Study Design: Unit 1 and 2 Overview

    Over the next series of posts I’ll be exploring the upcoming changes to the VCE English Study Design for Units 1 and 2, which begins in 2023. These posts cover VCE English: with the expanded SD for EAL, English as an Additional Language now warrants a separate discussion which I’ll cover in a later post.…

    Leon Furze

    May 14, 2022
    assessment, curriculum, VCE
    close reading, curriculum, education, english, reading, VCE, writing
  • Pulling it all together

    This is the sixth in a series of posts related to the six Strategies covered in my book Practical Reading Strategies. You can buy a copy of the book here. Check out the previous four posts on Making Connections, Visualising, Questioning, Inferring and Summarising. Synthesising is the final of the six Reading Strategies. As I…

    Leon Furze

    May 5, 2022
    close reading, curriculum, reading, Reading Strategies
    close reading, curriculum, education, english, reading, strategies, student-centred, VCE
  • In your own words

    This is the fifth in a series of posts related to the six Strategies covered in my book Practical Reading Strategies. You can buy a copy of the book here. Check out the previous four posts on Making Connections, Visualising, Questioning, and Inferring. Summarising involves recalling the main events or ideas from a text. The…

    Leon Furze

    May 3, 2022
    close reading, reading, Reading Strategies
    close reading, curriculum, education, english, reading, strategies, student-centred
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