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Opinion2026.10.04Jason Lodge · Needed Now

The global conversation on AI in education is shifting. Where does it leave Australian higher education?

Summary

Lodge reflects on learning, governance and the limits of chatbot-era reform after Digital Learning Week.

He distinguishes removing extraneous work from outsourcing the thinking that builds capability.

He acknowledges that reforms he helped develop assumed a chatbot context, and argues that agents and wearables require renewed governance scrutiny.

Survey, PISA and commercial cases were not independently checked.

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