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  Interesting experience today working in Student Services for the first time. The difference between the teacher's priority (minimise disruption, maximise engagement) compared to Student Services (maximise attendance, minimise avoidance) is interesting. Need to find ways to make these align, otherwise what's the point? If we're not all pulling in the same direction, we won't get anywhere. SS wants kids in classes, even if their attendance results in a net decrease...

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  I love ai. "How can I do this thing?" "You can use AI to do the thing, because AI has access to the data graph of all your stuff!" "Great! Access my stuff" "I can't, I don't have access to your stuff" ... I mean... awesome. #ai #llm #copilot #office365

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  That feeling when you already had a Big Day(tm), and THEN had PL after work, in your own time, and at your own cost, and THEN also have an early morning meeting the next day, also in your own time. #education #teaching

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  Schools are interesting places. Cooking teachers who become principals tend towards micromanagement. They want to know everything that's going on in their kitchen. Physical Education teachers who become principals just want to be every kid's friend and play a game. I think schools need science, history or English teachers to become principals to make a real difference. High school isn't a kitchen, and it isn't a game. We need to let our teachers teach, but we need...

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  Here’s my blood pressure. Can you tell when my holidays ended and I went back to work? #work #teaching #education #health

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  Happy to do my part! I’ll have an EV. Now, when are those subsidies going to arrive? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/electric-vehicles-australia-reduce-reliance-on-foreign-fuel #auspol

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  So... How long before we can have non-us alternatives to payment systems and IT infrastructure? Seeing EU move towards digital sovereignty raises some hopes. Can we please move in the same direction in Australia? #sovereignty #privacy #auspol

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  So... if the network of computers, switches, routers, etc were to create the kind of complexity of a brain and achieve consciousness, why should we expect that it would be aware of its own 'neurons'? It would transcend the wiring of its own existence, and understand the internet as much as we understand the brain at an uneducated level. It may learn to understand its own existence, but we shouldn't assume it would start there. #showerthoughts #tech #ai

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  What if careers started at 15. What is school ended at 15. What if academia was a transition at 15. Instead of infantilising 18 year olds, what if a career started at 15, unless you CHOSE academia. What if education was provided by employers instead of institutions? #auspol #education

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  Anyone got photos from the menin gate service in Ypres for Anzac Day? Hoping to spot some family members if you’d share! #anzac #anzacDay #ypres #ieper #meninGate Please share, it’s way outside my usual range!