What is education for, how do we measure it, how SHOULD we measure it, and how can we fix it? At the moment we're mostly measuring atar and student retention as the most important outcomes of the system. How many kids make it to year 12 and what do they score? We should be measuring: covid deniers, flat earthers, anti vaxxers, sovereign citizens, people with blind faith in technology.
Dr Nicky Ringland’s Advice to Graduates
As you step out into an AI-driven world that feels increasingly automated, your greatest competitive advantage won't be your skill with syntax. It will be your humanity and the community you build to support it.
Evidence Base
It turns out that there's not always good reasons for what we do - particularly for what governments do! In fact, there are good reasons to stop doing them. Dingoes and land management, climate change, deforestation and many many more issues require us to examine the evidence - evidence we already have - and change our ways.
Defiance
On the power of hope, and being troublemakers.
How many errors is too many?
We're just not good at fact checking things. We skim them, assuming they're accurate, and then the errors settle in, like stones at the bottom of a pond. Sharp ones. Stones that may well cut our feet when we inadvertently step on them later.