Hub chats

9 | Supporting students with sensory processing differences

Our Inclusive Education series continues: in this episode, we chat about sensory processing. Dr Diana Tan explains the eight senses, and shares strategies to support students with sensory processing differences in the classroom. 

8 | Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in the classroom

Our Inclusive Education series begins with a chat with Inclusive Education lecturer, Dr Iliana Skrebneva and Trudy Smith from NextSense, who discuss how teachers can support deaf and hard of hearing students and foster an inclusive classroom where all students can thrive.  

7 | AI prompting: top hints and techniques

In this episode, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton helps us understand how AI works, and chats about how we can best interact with frontier model LLMs (Large Language Models) to be effective users of AI technologies. We chat about the need to explicitly teach AI literacy to students, and what that looks like. 
Here is the poster of the top 10 tips and techniques that Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Dr Jodie Torrington have developed (CC-BY): 
https://www.canva.com/design/DAGXvNc-Pp8/OYbTCRaTL57RIOf9KkOdpA/view?utm_content=DAGXvNc-Pp8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor  

6 | Indigenous Inclusion in an AI world

In this episode, Dr Tamika Worrell from the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies chats about considerations and implications for Indigenous inclusion and data sovereignty in a generative AI world. 
Here is the resource Tamika recommends for evaluating Indigenous resources: https://aiatsis.gov.au/education/guide-evaluating-and-selecting-education-resources  

5 | Trauma informed practice in Early Childhood Education

In this episode, Professor Fay Hadley, an Early Childhood academic at Macquarie University chats with Beth Macgregor, Director of Macgregor Consulting, about the importance of co-regulation and how to help young children feel safe, connected and regulated. As Beth says, “Connection and regulation changes lives”.