Who am I?
From five decades of experience towards new ways of teaching.
I started teaching drama in 1976.
In 1997, I completed a prize-winning doctorate in theatre history and wrote seven drama textbooks between 1998 and 2010.
I’ve just finished a three-year teaching contract at a tough secondary school in Melbourne’s West.
I’m ready for the next phase of my life. Championing how dramatic play is uniquely placed to develop the critical and creative thinking students need to meet the future in an AI world.
Investigations of what might the AI-assisted classroom look like?
Workshops For Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Writers and Subject Matter Experts.
I am curious how my interactions with an ‘AI assistant’ (i.e. a trained ‘chatbot’) opens me up to the neurological and philosophical affordances of pedagogical principles which guide my teaching practice.
Perhaps more importantly, if LLMs are trained to know about their own training, could that be likened to being metacognitive and ‘thinking about thinking’? And in what specific ways might the Gemini Advanced reasoning model enable me to use metacognitive strategies within, for instance, in Google Classroom with my students so that they effectively use their working memory when learning
- subject knowledge and skills (mostly) simultaneously with thinking and literacy strategies,
- managing their cognitive load, and
- ensure the development of their long-term memory for ‘deep learning’.
