Cameron Paterson
@cpaterso.bsky.social
Playing in the gap between learning and schooling. Less us, more them. 🎓💡📚✍️🌎🌱
"If teachers are controlled, they control. If teachers are empowered to inquire and innovate, they do the same for students." — Gill & Gagliano
📖 Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools — out now. Stay tuned for a 2026 launch!
✦ www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...
📖 Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools — out now. Stay tuned for a 2026 launch!
✦ www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"If teachers are controlled, they control. If teachers are empowered to inquire and innovate, they do the same for students." — Gill & Gagliano
📖 Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools — out now. Stay tuned for a 2026 launch!
✦ www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...
📖 Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools — out now. Stay tuned for a 2026 launch!
✦ www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...
“Every time I teach , I feel joy. I feel satisfaction at seeing someone understand something that I care about. I’ve just been in awe of the teachers around me, like, how masterfully they take control of their classes and how they explain concepts. They’re just so skilled.”
September 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“Every time I teach , I feel joy. I feel satisfaction at seeing someone understand something that I care about. I’ve just been in awe of the teachers around me, like, how masterfully they take control of their classes and how they explain concepts. They’re just so skilled.”
“This absurd system we still subject our young people to. All the HSC is teaching is how to memorize information and then regurgitate it to answer exam questions.”
September 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“This absurd system we still subject our young people to. All the HSC is teaching is how to memorize information and then regurgitate it to answer exam questions.”
This is no longer just a matter of educational policy, but one of national survival… proposed dismantling the current “analogue structure” of university degrees, replacing it with faster learning pathways to address skill shortages.
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is no longer just a matter of educational policy, but one of national survival… proposed dismantling the current “analogue structure” of university degrees, replacing it with faster learning pathways to address skill shortages.
“A large Brisbane school is crediting dramatic improvements in its year 12 students’ English marks to a customised AI chatbot that provides instant feedback on student essays…. A qualitative shift in student engagement and motivation resulting from the dramatic reduction in feedback delivery time.”
September 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“A large Brisbane school is crediting dramatic improvements in its year 12 students’ English marks to a customised AI chatbot that provides instant feedback on student essays…. A qualitative shift in student engagement and motivation resulting from the dramatic reduction in feedback delivery time.”
“So far, universities have no good answers to the existential questions posed by AI. What is needed from academic leaders is a full-throated explanation of what universities are, why they exist, and what it means to get a real education.”
September 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
“So far, universities have no good answers to the existential questions posed by AI. What is needed from academic leaders is a full-throated explanation of what universities are, why they exist, and what it means to get a real education.”
“With a heavy emphasis on a highly top-down model of schooling with scripted direct instruction, the current Australian education model offers little flexibility.”
September 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“With a heavy emphasis on a highly top-down model of schooling with scripted direct instruction, the current Australian education model offers little flexibility.”
“What is the value of the university in the age of AI? Ideally, university should be a place where people are not taught what to think but how to think. AI chatbots have taken hold of universities. We have an academic workforce that doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.”
August 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“What is the value of the university in the age of AI? Ideally, university should be a place where people are not taught what to think but how to think. AI chatbots have taken hold of universities. We have an academic workforce that doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.”
Less concern about children using AI to fake their homework than about whether their best friends are chat bots. “Increasingly, young people are forming close bonds not just with their peers, but with artificial intelligence companions - digital chat bots designed to talk like humans.”
August 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Less concern about children using AI to fake their homework than about whether their best friends are chat bots. “Increasingly, young people are forming close bonds not just with their peers, but with artificial intelligence companions - digital chat bots designed to talk like humans.”
“What should we be doing now to ensure that future generations of Australians have the best chance of thriving in an initially growing, and then shrinking world? We must build a community that embraces long-term visioning, that trusts its institutions, that has as its foundation the family…”
August 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“What should we be doing now to ensure that future generations of Australians have the best chance of thriving in an initially growing, and then shrinking world? We must build a community that embraces long-term visioning, that trusts its institutions, that has as its foundation the family…”
“To be successful in managing agentic AI, the skills necessary need to be framed differently. The role the humanities play will be vitally important. We don’t want disincentives. We need curriculum reform that enables more crossover fertilisation between the humanities and sciences.”
August 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“To be successful in managing agentic AI, the skills necessary need to be framed differently. The role the humanities play will be vitally important. We don’t want disincentives. We need curriculum reform that enables more crossover fertilisation between the humanities and sciences.”
An arts or humanities degree will become even more important. One tech industry guy who studied arts in the 1990s told me that the degree gave him skills and cognitive capacity to learn, to intelligently supervise agentic AI and knowledgeable communication and problem-solving.”
August 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
An arts or humanities degree will become even more important. One tech industry guy who studied arts in the 1990s told me that the degree gave him skills and cognitive capacity to learn, to intelligently supervise agentic AI and knowledgeable communication and problem-solving.”
“Unless you’re in the top 0.1 per cent, you’re a peasant… there is no middle class in an AI future. I find it incredibly hard to know what to tell my 17-year-old son about the study choices he should make to prepare for this disruption, and finding economy-wide solutions is more complex.”
August 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“Unless you’re in the top 0.1 per cent, you’re a peasant… there is no middle class in an AI future. I find it incredibly hard to know what to tell my 17-year-old son about the study choices he should make to prepare for this disruption, and finding economy-wide solutions is more complex.”
“About 50% of Melbourne students in years 7-9 are disengaged at school. Many students believe school content fails to address real-world issues. We need to hear from teachers, not well-meaning bureaucrats.”
August 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“About 50% of Melbourne students in years 7-9 are disengaged at school. Many students believe school content fails to address real-world issues. We need to hear from teachers, not well-meaning bureaucrats.”
At the Young Archie’s in Sydney. “I wanted to draw my teacher”
July 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
At the Young Archie’s in Sydney. “I wanted to draw my teacher”
“AI agents will completely transform how humans work. The real change isn’t what AI agents will do, it’s how humans will evolve. We’ll become orchestrators rather than executors of work.” @mesterman.bsky.social @pipcleaves.bsky.social @vincewall.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“AI agents will completely transform how humans work. The real change isn’t what AI agents will do, it’s how humans will evolve. We’ll become orchestrators rather than executors of work.” @mesterman.bsky.social @pipcleaves.bsky.social @vincewall.bsky.social
“The problem with many of the methods workplaces used to navigate change is that they assume that major change is an occasional event, not a constant state…. In reality, today’s disruptions often arrive unannounced, overlap unpredictably and ripple through organisations in unpredictable ways.”
April 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“The problem with many of the methods workplaces used to navigate change is that they assume that major change is an occasional event, not a constant state…. In reality, today’s disruptions often arrive unannounced, overlap unpredictably and ripple through organisations in unpredictable ways.”
“Teachers of heart-cracking generosity who inspire their young students, who give their charges the greatest gift of all - confidence.”
April 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Teachers of heart-cracking generosity who inspire their young students, who give their charges the greatest gift of all - confidence.”
Visited the Treaty exhibition at the State Library and learned about Australia’s first treaty attempt.
April 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Visited the Treaty exhibition at the State Library and learned about Australia’s first treaty attempt.
Between 2014–2023, Australian media shaped debates on democratic education, from equity and civics to politics in schools. Themes ranged from control over curricula to rising activism, exposing tensions in inclusivity, funding, & civic readiness. @jorgeous24.bsky.social @janehunter2025.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Between 2014–2023, Australian media shaped debates on democratic education, from equity and civics to politics in schools. Themes ranged from control over curricula to rising activism, exposing tensions in inclusivity, funding, & civic readiness. @jorgeous24.bsky.social @janehunter2025.bsky.social
Project Zero Australia offers free professional learning to disseminate powerful educational concepts. Today we hosted Ben Mardell to share ideas about making learning visible, playful learning, and empowering young children to learn about nature/climate change.
March 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Project Zero Australia offers free professional learning to disseminate powerful educational concepts. Today we hosted Ben Mardell to share ideas about making learning visible, playful learning, and empowering young children to learn about nature/climate change.
Andreas Schleicher at the IB conference in Singapore.
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Andreas Schleicher at the IB conference in Singapore.
