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August 2026
Building with Papert at My Elbow
What a Chatbot Built From Seymour Papert's Writings Wouldn't Let Me Get Away With
I pasted my dashboard's system document into a chatbot trained on Seymour Papert's writings and asked what it thought. What came back wasn't encouragement. It was a colleague who could see exactly where the build would die.
Read articleJuly 2026
The Software Nobody Needs
What We Lock Away When We Lock the Devices Down
Three students built tools nobody else needs today. Not one of those projects survives a locked-down device — and across staffrooms, board papers and newspaper columns, we are busily talking ourselves into locking them down.
Read articleMarch 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.
Read articleFebruary 2026
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.
Read articleFebruary 2026
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.
Read articleJanuary 2026
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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