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AI has not made assessment impossible. It has made weak assessment visible.

Generative AI has not made assessment impossible. It has made weak assessment visible. The real question is not whether students used AI, but whether our assessments still reveal judgement, intent, critique and learning.

The Human Bottleneck: Why AI Can Solve the Brief but Not the Problem

I have been marking an assignment that asks students to use AI to generate a draft and then improve it through critical thinking. The irony is hard to miss. The case imagines a consulting firm planning to shift its graduate capability programme towards AI skills....

AI will disrupt the acquisition & distribution of knowledge

12 Critical Competencies for the AI world

As the boundaries of knowledge, employability, and citizenship shift ever more rapidly, educators are confronted with an urgent question: How can we assess and support the development of truly critical skills in the age of AI? Over the past decade, a proliferation of...

Knowledge is Power requires AI literacy

Knowledge is power (from the latin “Scientia Potentia Est”) was the motto at my Melbourne primary school. From the days of Bacon—who famously declared “knowledge itself is power” (Bacon, as cited in Wikipedia contributors, 2025a)—and Hobbes—who...

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AI has not made assessment impossible. It has made weak assessment visible.

The Human Bottleneck: Why AI Can Solve the Brief but Not the Problem

AI will disrupt the acquisition & distribution of knowledge

12 Critical Competencies for the AI world

Knowledge is Power requires AI literacy

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