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😉I found the shortcut keys for it.... Feeling like a 🤴 slipping emoji 🖼️ in assessment feedback like a 🥷 when I feel like 🤹‍♂️ but students think I am 🎯 🌞

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#EduSkyAU The power of watching and waiting as a tool for teachers is so powerful... it may need later follow up, but let the low level conflict allow for growth! (Although I don't always do this well 😳)

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A5 #EduSkyAU If Play was a design principle... 🚀School is an adventure! 🧠 Learn by doing, getting hands-on 📚 Flexible curriculum ✅ Creative assessment with games 🤝 Social growth; collaboration & EQ 🔥 Intrinsic motivation ✨ schools as places of wonder & discovery!

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A4 #EduSkyAU I think a key point of play, is that there needs to be some rules. When people are playing with different rules, the games are rarely fun. I think Innovation is often about working out which rules are helping and which are getting in the way.

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A4. Play invites risk, humour, rebellion, delight. These are the raw materials of innovation. A playful mindset doesn’t mean silly. It means serious about exploring the unknown without fear of failure. That’s where collaboration truly catches fire. #EduSkyAU

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A3 #EduSkyAU Play can promote engagement, but I think we lose more... Risk Taking, Thinking Skills, Resilience, Communication. It feels like the idea of "High Challenge with Low Threat" can be explored when we use "Play"

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A3. When we minimise play, we don’t just lose engagement—we amputate wonder. We teach young people that life is a performance, not a process. We risk cultivating perfectionists instead of problem-solvers. Cogs instead of creators. #EduSkyAU

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A2 #EduSkyAU Play helps learning (more than Real World Applications in my experience). I feel lots of time is spent trying to find how what we learn applies to post school, but perhaps we would all have more fun and do more learning if we spent that enjoy on promoting play!

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A1 #EduSkyAU What a great question... I try to start each faculty meeting with a game to encourage play and we had a Games night on Friday (but I didn't get there). BUT I think I need to do more play (Good time for a reminder)!

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Tim Brzezinski @tbrzezinski.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I love SpotIt! It is such a fun game!

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Another triangle surprise! youtube.com/shorts/n7HZz... #math #mathteacher #geometry #edusky

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Jarrad Strain @jstrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Congratulations Antony Green on being such a great communicator and balanced member of the Australian political process. Such a class act! #AusPol #AusVotes

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That is a nice quote @mbennettcoach.bsky.social Stay curious is almost always good stance (unless you are a feline)

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@mbennettcoach.bsky.social It has been a while since I talked about Reflective Dialogue, I needed to look up the definition and I have come across "Dialogic reflection" ... hmm this may be a rabbit hole for another time.... openpress.sussex.ac.uk/ideasforacti... #EduSkyAU

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#EduSkyAU The best coaching conversations seems to be from geniune curiosity - which can benefit both/all parties.

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A2 #EduSkyAU Education does quite well with coaching when PST work with a Mentor. I have seen some huge growth in PST I have mentored. Ability to take on advice is one of the most important characteristics of a PST IMO

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Dealing with tough conversations can be so tricky - but particularly early in a career the coaching of leaders is SO IMPORTANT! #EduSkyAU

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A1 #EduSkyAU In my first job I had a very capable Head of Faculty. He did some really impactful practices. One was to nominate me for a few awards, which opened my awareness to wider opportunities (whereas I woudl otherwise have remained isolated in the school)

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Jarrad Strain @jstrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Good Evening #EduSkuAU I'm Jarrad coming from Kaurna lands of the Adelaide Hills. We finally got some rain here today... but really need some more. Looking forward to the with @mbennettcoach.bsky.social

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A3 #EduSkyAU Having seen the Millennium Development Goals conclude then transition to SDG (with 2030 goals only 5 years away) Students still think this is a way off, but we will soon see how we are tracking with these goals. Students should start exploring what the next goals should be.

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Jarrad Strain @jstrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A2 #EduSkyAU Innovation has looked quite different in different classrooms I have seen. It has been interesting seeing how the Research Project and PLP in SACE has evolved in SA towards EIF and AIF as a state curriculum requiring every student to do an extended project of interest.

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Jarrad Strain @jstrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A1 #EduSkyAU The General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum includes 'Critical and Creative Thinking' at the same level as Numeracy and Literacy? But there seems to be issues on defining creativity and creative thinking.... This would be an interesting area for more development.

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#EduSkyAU Team @eduskyauteam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hmmmm so how do we increase membership? And how do we know the right people become members for these associations?

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CREATIVITY MATTERS This Tues 22 April, we celebrate World Creativity & Innovation Day with #EduSkyAU host @adrianodiprato.bsky.social . Join us to unpack how creativity, innovation + the UN SDGs are reshaping learning through purpose, possibility + action. Don't miss it! 5:30pm AWST 7:30pm AEST

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Thanks for having me on #EduSkyAU chat, particularly @brookssensei.bsky.social and @adrianodiprato.bsky.social. It was lovely getting to share some great ideas! @drsandynicoll123.bsky.social 's Seahorse was a highlight for me! as well as some incredible Haikus. See you on the next chat!

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Sorry if I made them a little tricky... #EduSkyAU

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Community is such an important part of teaching! A community for PreService Teachers sounds like a brilliant idea! #EduSkyAU

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Love a good podcast! Is it out there? #EduSkyAU

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Bold is needed! But are there steps we can take towards that? #EduSkyAU

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Thanks @drsandynicoll123.bsky.social Life can be like that! I hope the last question prompts some creative and imaginative ideas!!! #EduSkyAU

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Q6: If teacher associations had unlimited resources, what’s one BIG, bold initiative you’d love to see them take on? #EduSkyAU

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Q5: Your mission: Convince a hesitant colleague to join a teacher association, but you only have one post/skeet (280 characters or less). Go! #EduSkyAU

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Such rich answers! I really like the "student led movement"! Students are such critical parts of the ecosystem, and it would be great to have them involved with teacher associations! #EduSkyAU

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Thanks for including this! Yarning circles really feel like such a great example of first nations wisdom that benefits us all! #EduSkyAU

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Nice Haiku! I like the pattern, and clearly deeply considered! #EduSkyAU

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