“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader. Bringing a story to life Increasingly, creative app developers, visual artists, authors and publishers are pushing beyond the boundaries of how we “experience” reading. … Read more
Scratch 3.0 has a great library of Sprites (characters and props that you can animate). These often have multiple costumes so that you can animate the characters. Once children have experimented with the interface, they soon begin to … Read more
“Wonder is a state of radical attention and openness to the world around us.” Caspar Henderson – A new map of wonders – a journey in search of modern marvels The Innovating Pedagogy Report 2019 (The Open University in … Read more
Made by Humans: The AI Condition by Ellen Broad (Melbourne University Press, 2018) is a startling book. Broad prompts us to scratch beyond the surface of the smooth sheen of AI interfaces. She exposes the shaky foundations of … Read more
This article is the second part of a two-part series exploring the free 3D animation software Alice. Part 1 was to get you ready to start with Alice and to explore the interface. Part 2 shares my process … Read more
This article is the first part of a two-part series exploring the free 3D animation software Alice. Using Alice, you can: animate stories and build virtual reality worlds design and build interactive games learn to program object-oriented code … Read more
In my last fifteen years in higher education, I have never travelled outside of my home city of Adelaide for work. A statistic that for personal philosophical reasons, I’ve become increasingly proud of. I value the ability to … Read more
It is hard to imagine that I have now been writing with AACE Review for the last year! I can honestly say it has been a lot of fun. Writing blog posts about subjects I love, alongside other … Read more
Hour of Code held between December 3 – 9 is a global invitation reaching out to anyone and everyone. You are invited to spend an hour exploring the language of computer code. If you have never written code … Read more
An Urgency of Teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy is a collection of intelligent counsel and an emotional summons. Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) and Jesse Stommel (@jessifer) can be arresting poets. When I first stumbled upon Jesse … Read more