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AI Education in a Box
Rose Luckin, Danny Liu, Sue Keay, & Tom Worthington in headphones at EduTech_AU. Photo by Tom Worthington, CC-BY 4 June 2026  There was standing room only at EduTech_Au in Sydney today for "Beyond personalisation: Human-centred and equitable learning in the age of AI". Thanks to Danny Liu (University of Sydney), Rose Luckin (UCL Knowledge Lab and Sue...

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Indigenous Education at Edutech Au
Greetings from the Edutech_Au conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney. I a moderating a session on AI and equity tomorrow morning. Today I am wandering around the exhibition. Most interesting is in the back right corner, with three booths from indigenous education organisations (TIPIAC, indigenous Literacy Foundation, Wingaru Education), with an adjacent series of talks.

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Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon 2026
Registrations are open for the 2026 Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon at the University of Sydney, 17 to 19 July. Teams of undergraduate students will work world problems. There are prizes, but as with any hackerthon it is about learning to work together. I have volunteered to mentor. This will be my third time mentoring a hackerthon this year.

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No Governance Crisis in Australian Universities
Julie Hare writes "It's a governance crisis, but why now precisely?" (The Hare Report, May 31, 2026). But is there a governance crisis? Some universities have very public problems, but only a tiny number. Other public & private organisations fail every day. Companies go into receivership, local government bodies are taken over by an administrator, public officials & priv...

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Positive Persuasive LLMs
Dr Siying Hu at City University of Hong Kong talked on "Persuasive Simulations in the LLM Era" at the ANU AI, ML and Friends seminar. They suggested AI could be used in a positive way to counter the negative effects of social media and scammers. The Australian government is planning more support for the long term unemployed. Perhaps this technology could help build their co...

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