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Academic, parent, writer. Wearer of many hats. Speak for myself on #travel, #writing #kidlit etc. Also on https://nitter.cf/t.co/MiGSxGrryk

Perth
Joined July 2010
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Maths is sequential. To build knowledge, you have to learn certain things before you learn others.
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BBC WRITERS OPEN CALL 26/27 NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! The submission window is open between 12 noon on Tue 3 Nov 2026 to Tue 1 Dec 2026 at 12 noon. Find full details, including the terms & conditions of entry over on the BBC Writers website bbc.co.uk/writers/opportunit… ✍️
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Dr Deepti Ruth Azariah retweeted
If you want to know how well a primary school kid can write, give them a pen and paper - not a keyboard. Education Ministers have agreed to return primary school NAPLAN writing tests to pen and paper.
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Dr Deepti Ruth Azariah retweeted
This has been a long time coming. Education Ministers have agreed to establish a new Australian Teaching and Learning Commission. It'll bring curriculum, testing, teacher training and research together under one roof. The way that teachers experience them.
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Dr Deepti Ruth Azariah retweeted
Hafta sonu bu videoyu 3 kere başa sarıp sarıp tekrar izledim. Cate Blanchett, Tokyo’da ödül alıyor. Dünyanın en iyi aktrislerinden biri, kürsüye çıkıyor ve ilk söylediği şey şu: Söyleyemediğimiz o kadar çok şey var ki. Cate, konuşmaya kelimelere güvenmediğini söyleyerek başladı ve anında bütün salonu avucunun içine aldı. Ama beni asıl yakalayan şey sessizliği kullanmasıydı daha doğrusu bedeninin sessizliğini. Dört dakika boyunca doğru dürüst elini bile kaldırmadı. Omuz oynatmadı, kafa sallamadı. Eller masanın altında, gövdesi ağaç gibi. Yıllardır insanlara; heyecanınızı sesinize verin ellerinize vermeyin diyorum. Bunu bu kadar temiz yapan birini çok az gördüm. Cate, konuşmanın neredeyse tamamını kağıttan okudu. Başı eğik, gözleri metinde. Ama arada başını kaldırdı, pembe gözlüğünün üstünden salona bakıp bir cümle söyledi. Konuşmasından aklımda kalan cümleleri yazdım. Hepsi başını kaldırdığı anlar. İnsan kağıttan ne zaman koparsa, dinleyici o cümleleri yanında götürür. Sonra asıl bomba geldi. Ödül kürsüsünde, herkesin başarının sırlarını anlattığı yerde dedi ki: Şüphe çoğu zaman özgüven eksikliği sanılır. Oysa şüphe benim başlangıç noktam. Hala her işe bunu yapmalı mıyım diye sorarak başlıyormuş. Sokrates’ten beri bilinen bir şey var. İnsan, tereddüdünü saklamayana güvenir çünkü tereddüt taklit edilemez. Cate, bu kuralı anlatmakla yetinmedi, kendi üzerinde de gösterdi. Gelelim kapanışa. Konuşması “kelimeler insanı suskun bırakır” diye açılmıştı. “Bu ödül beni suskun bıraktı” diye kapandı. Homeros’un bile kullandığı çok eski bir teknik. Başladığın yere geri dön, dinleyici hikayenin bittiğini zerrelerinde hissetsin. İyi bir konuşmada en zor iş fazlalıkları çıkarmaktır. Uzun zamandır bu kadar temiz bir konuşma dinlememiştim. Retoriği kanlı, canlı görmek istiyorsanız bu konuşmayı çok dikkatli izleyin.
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Dr Deepti Ruth Azariah retweeted
The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
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Dr Deepti Ruth Azariah retweeted
Opinion: Universities keep asking whether AI can make teaching more efficient. This essay argues the tougher question belongs higher up the org chart: How much senior administrative work could AI, databases, and faculty expertise replace? chroni.cl/4icixYf
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
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Dr Deepti Ruth Azariah retweeted
Historian Romila Thapar, 96, on Sunday (October 25, 2026) argued that colonial historians fundamentally shaped the way Indian history came to be understood, reducing complex social and political processes to simplified religious narratives that continue to influence historical interpretations today and propagate the Hindutva reading of Indian history. ✍️@SobhanaNair thehindu.com/news/national/h…
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General Relativity for babies ✍️
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Prof @b_mittelstadt joined BBC Berkshire to discuss how the public subsidises the AI industry, through tax breaks, infrastructure and research funding, and access to land, water, electricity and public data. Listen from 3:15:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032t…
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"#AI poses a particularly acute threat to academics because of the nature of academic labour. But always and everywhere capitalism restricts human autonomy...so that machines become our masters rather than our servants" theconversation.com/friday-e…
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When you type an unpublished idea into a chatbot or coding agent, could it end up being used by the company that built the model—or a rival who asks the right question a year later? And what can you do to reduce the risk? No setting makes a chatbot fully private, but experts suggest steps that can make leaks much less likely: scim.ag/4sihqtz
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed in an Australian court against Meta’s Facebook and Instagram that alleges the social media platforms exposed children to harmful content and kept them addicted through algorithms reut.rs/4skkwNx
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Writer @NaomiAKlein says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."
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