Claire Amos

X link: https://twitter.com/michelledennis Types of AI - vision speech, language, search, decision Source: https://inclusioncloud.com/insights/blog/azure-cognitive-services/ Source: https://ai4k12.org/ Every time you interact with AI you are training the AI and making it better. Showed a number of images getting listeners to choose which photos are real people and which are generated, highlighting how hard it is to to pick. Showed the results showing the same prompt being used a year apart and showing how much AI has already evolved and improved. Showing AI-created video, currently short and have to pay for service but this will change soon. ChatGPT and friends - ChatGPT is growing the most quickly. Talked about prompts and the ways you iterate improving and updating responses. ChatGPT - lowered the level of skill needed to get responses. Low threshold to use it but suggests needing to understand some of the ways it works. ChatGPT Vision - now breaks down images into words. Example - u...

From the programme: Kristen will explore the contemporary approaches to workforce well-being and considerations for future leaders focusing on: • How to socially, emotionally, and relationally lead staff • Building trust and connection • Feeding your culture with intention • Careful conversation not corrosive conversations, and • Getting back to deep listening. “Are you a thermostat or a thermometer? One changes the temperature but the other merely measures it”. (Planetshakers 2021) Link to website: https://headspace.org.au/ Supporting humans through adversity. Headlines for today: Schools are complex ecosystems and micro-leadership behaviours play a powerful role It takes a village to raise a child and communities start in schools It is critical to connect people for regulation, safety and balance Leaders must be able to lead individuals and entire communities - these are different skills Being in balance is the very core of individual and community function Principals as ecosystem en...

A focus on leadership & well-being amidst great challenges and opportunities. From the programme: While previously considered a profession that offers a balanced lifestyle, more recently the education sector has gone through a steady professionalisation and a stagnation in the lifestyle benefits it can offer. As the responsibility of teachers continues to grow, and emerging interest in the profession declines, schools and the education sector more broadly must appropriately respond to the current and future needs of educators. In this session Mark will provide a practical, data-driven and engaging guide to these education trends, how these massive shifts are changing the way in which students engage with their education, and teachers engage their students, and why work wellbeing is a non-negotiable for the future and how to achieve it. Demographic growth and change Australia's 2.2% annual growth rate More people and more students Internal migration Rise of the regions 60% have ...

Website: https://www.startwithhex.com/ From the website: Made For Gutsy Learners The rate of change in tech is exponential, but the rate of change in traditional education is kinda flat... So we hang out at the intersection of education and innovation, delivering a new kind of learning. We're all about experiences that are immersive, up-to-date, and based in the real world. 5000+ learners have loved our seriously fun virtual programs, study abroad experiences, and hackathon-style events. And they leave HEX with amazing confidence, skills and networks — as well as university accreditation. 2019 One-month runway Zero revenue forecast Team of seven staff Jobkeeper not yet announced Schools and students under pressure. COVID closed down the borders What would you think? How would you feel? What would you do? That time I cried at the kitchen table - choosing electives as a teenager and feeling like it was predetermining their entire career. 40% of CEOs know their business will be redund...

These are rough and ready notes but great to see a traditional school taking the initiative to transform their school. Education doesn’t need to be reformed - it needs to be transformed! The key is not to standardise education but to personalise it. Prioritise the acquisition of skills over content. Community buy-in is needed. Started with staff, then students, then parents. What do we believe about how kids learn best? Conditions for powerful learning do not describe our current system. There is a major disconnect between what the research tells us and what we continue to do in schools. Provocations included OECD - Four Futures and the reality that we may not exist if we don’t change things. From the OECD: https://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/Brochure-Four-OECD-Scenarios-for-the-Future-of-Schooling.pdf Scenario 1 | Schooling extended Scenario 2 | Education outsourced Scenario 3 | Schools as Learning Hubs Scenario 4 | Learn-as-you-go Think Learning Studio was another source of provocat...

Why focus on leadership character? Leaders are powerful. Your decisions affect the learning of 100s of students. Leaders need the ability to discern what is right. Leaders need to be a force for good in contexts that tempt them to be otherwise. Values are words, and virtues are actions. What is the right work? The right work is the dedicated pursuit of proper purposes of education. Three proper purposes Preparation of children and young people through mastery of the competencies they require to lead fulfilling and productive lives. Socialisation into particular cultures and communities. The development of autonomy by enabling children and young persons to exercise choice without surrendering the will of others or uncontrolled inner drives. Leading for deep learning The right leadership work Purpose: Ensure Deep Learning Learners learn the science of deep learning and of teaching for deep learning Derive broad descriptions of the right leadership work Overcoming obstacles or problems th...

  Possible actual photo that inspired many of this year's policies As we barrel along towards the 2023 General Election and as educators dig deep to find the energy to give a damn about anything beyond surviving the end of Term Three and desperately hoping to enjoy a sickness-free break and some much-needed sunshine, it is important we find a way to engage with what’s on the horizon for education this election cycle.  If like me you are thinking that education is all but missing in action (beyond a few clickbait-worthy headlines) this election season you wouldn’t be wrong. Clearly “cost of living” and “getting tough on crime” are the issues de jour this time around. It is disappointing to see the resolute lack of vision for education across the board this year. Our two major players seem to be vying for first place by serving up shades of beige and different versions of “back to basics” ideology with little more than financial literacy, literacy, numeracy and truancy on the me...