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Putting criticality first in the age of AI
A conference provocation Last December I presented with Dr Pennie White at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference at the University of Melbourne. Our presentation was titled Critical, cultural, operational: Revisiting Bill Green’s Literacy in 3D framework for the age of AI. This framework is one of the key resources for the…
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Creating video with gen AI
What’s new? The release of OpenAI’s diffusion model Sora means that creating video content is now as easy as “writing” with ChatGPT. If you haven’t checked it out yet, OpenAI has a number of demo videos available here. How do diffusion models work? These videos enable prompters to simulate the world in motion, by creating…
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From WordArt to Writing Artistry: Making sure teachers have what they need
Introducing a new team member In this post, I’m delighted to introduce Dr Elizabeth Little, who will be joining us on the Teaching Digital Writing project as a Research Assistant. Elizabeth will be taking over writing some of the future blog posts as the project progresses. In this post, she introduces her own background with…
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My bot’s better than your bot: Log in to the AI Writing Coach Wars
Forget drones and robot armies The AI Writing Coach Wars have commenced. Are you battle-ready? With educational systems and institutions working in partnership with companies to develop their own branded writing coach bots, this is the new site for AI warfare. Not Terminator-style robots on the ground. Not sinister black drones in the air. Software.…
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The new CRAAP test: Meet CRAAPE for AI critical literacy
What is the CRAAP test? The Teaching Digital Writing in Secondary English project is addressing both creative and critical elements of writing. Generative AI is throwing up challenges to many of the critical literacy tools teachers have relied on now for some time. The CRAAP test, designed by Sarah Blakesee (2004) and used widely by…
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What supports do you need to teach with and about generative AI?
National survey (still) out now! A key component of the Australian Teaching Digital Writing in Secondary English project is the national survey, re how teachers are teaching digital writing. The survey link has been live for some time now, and the deadline has been extended once, to the end of August. We have 60 responses…
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Project update: National survey underway
The survey stage (disclaimer: this post and the survey it describes were not written with generative AI) A big update for this research project on how Australian secondary English teachers are conceptualising digital writing: the national survey is happening right now! This survey asks teachers a range of questions about what the term “digital writing”…
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Outsourcing pedagogical design
Visiting fellow This week at Deakin University’s Research for Education Impact (REDI) Centre, we have been delighted to host Professor Susanne Gannon, from Western Sydney University, as a Visiting Fellow. This has given us an opportunity to share findings from our respective research into the teaching of writing in Australia, Professor Gannon in Queensland and…
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Disclaimer: ChatGPT did not write this post!
Writing is changing The very first sentence in the application for funding for this Teaching Digital Writing in Secondary English research project stated, “The nature of writing is changing”. In 2022, the first year of the project, in writing, testing and refining questions for a national survey, I included items on AI writing. Yet even…
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What can the national textbook archive tell us about teaching writing?
A key element of my DECRA project in its first year has been working with the national textbook archive, called The Australian Schools Textbook Collection. In the funding application, I wrote of my plans to conduct a review of the role of digital writing pedagogies in Australia from 1990-present through this collection of over 36,000…