Tag: Teaching
Open MPhil/Part II student projects for 2026-2027
A refreshed set of Part II and MPhil projects, split between environmental science problems that need computer science, and more conventional systems and programming languages topics.
Using Forester to turn Foundations of CS into interactive evergreen lectures
Porting the FoCS lecture notes to Forester, including transclusions and stable section URLs, and a live OCaml toplevel compiled into the browser.
.plan-26-32: Finally a use for serverless and found the Forester for the trees
GETMobile micro-NPU article and package calculus published, TESSERA embeddings conversion using Fargate Spot, and starting to shift to Forester for teaching.
Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom
Early in the media law and ethics course I teach, as I shift gears from the ethics section to the law and core free speech issues, I try to build a foundation by introducing the many kinds of legal issues they may face as communicators. By this time, we have already discussed social media platforms...
How do we teach with AI in 2026?
Teaching and education with AI
MOEST warns fraudsters targeting teaching jobs
Individuals found defrauding applicants for the advertised secondary school teaching jobs will be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the law. This follows an alert from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology warning applicants for secondary school teaching positions to beware of fraudsters impersonating officials. In a public notice, the Ministry said it is...
Event: CSEE Institute for Teaching World Religions
I was invited to give a talk at a training session of educators on religious literacy and Islam. From the CSEE Institute for Teaching World Religions Website: Knowledge of the world's religious traditions is vitally important for communication and understanding in our current world. CSEE's institute brings together religious studies scholars and world religion teachers...
On Being a Communication Educator
Or At Least My Interpretation of It
Video: WebinAAR Wikipedia as Pedagogy
In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. The panelists explore what Wikipedia can offer students and how students can help shape public understanding of...
COMP4020: assessment
What does a student hand in for an agentic coding course---and how do I make that artefact worth more than the grade itself?
COMP4020: the story so far
A catch-up post for the COMP4020 Agentic Coding Studio blog series---what the course is, how it works, and what's still unresolved.
Expecting Excellence in Education: When Content Conditions Class Consciousness
Chaness links white supremacy, settler colonialism, and anti-Indian racism, showing how Indigenous values and pedagogy reshape critical classroom practice.
The road to COMP4020: climbing the "good" gradient
Producing code is easy; knowing whether it's good is still hard. Three nested feedback loops for ascending the quality gradient in agentic coding.
.plan-26-08: At AI summit, Shriram's PL opinions, Zarr hacking
TESSERA paper accepted at CVPR 2026, went to the AI Impact Summit, OCaml Zarr hacking, Shriram's talk on human factors of formal methods, and discussions on teaching OxCaml to agents.
The road to COMP4020: the core mechanic
The repeating loop at the heart of COMP4020: provocation, prototype, studio crit. An art-school model adapted for agentic software development.
LLMs Unplugged at Brimbank Tech School
A hands-on AI workshop for educators at VU Sunshine Campus, covering AI fundamentals, paper-and-pen predictive models, and change management.
0121: Wake me up when January ends
Language Learning Rules Everything Around Me
Zettelkasten as a Mind Garden
Building a mind garden one notecard at a time.
COMP4020/8020: Rapid Prototyping for the Web
Designing a new ANU course on building web apps with coding agents---studio-based, prototype-driven, moving beyond naive vibecoding.
LLMs Unplugged: teaching language models with pen, paper, and dice
A hands-on teaching resource where learners build bigram language models with pen, paper, and dice---no computers required. Tested with school students, public servants, and tech professionals.
Josh Comeau - Creating Delightful Developer Education
Josh Comeau reveals his techniques for creating interactive developer education experiences and building delightful web interfaces with CSS and JavaScript.
LLM Parlour Games for Overeducated Wankers
Workshop materials for designing and playing parlour games with LLMs, including LLM-augmented 20 Questions and Adventures in Amphibology.
Steve Krouse - val.town
Steve Krouse unveils Val.Town, a social coding platform where TypeScript runs instantly in browsers, bridging his teaching background with end-user programming.
Writing graph theory proofs with ChatGPT
Asking ChatGPT to prove the five colour and four colour theorems with my mathematician father-in-law, and his reaction to the results.
Academic integrity guidelines re: ChatGPT and generative AI tools
Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements.
Are you ready for ChatGPT in the classroom this semester?
Practical advice for educators on incorporating ChatGPT into their teaching this semester rather than pretending it doesn't exist.
Drinking from the bullshit firehose
Draft notes on AI-generated bullshit in higher education---the problem isn't that it's wrong, it's that Brandolini's law means we'll be overwhelmed by the sheer volume.
AI in higher education: dystopia, utopia or something in between?
AI tools in higher education won't operate in isolation---they'll reshape information flows between students, instructors and institutions in ways we need to watch carefully.
Feedback in livecoding: cui bono?
A pre-class prompt for cybernetics students: watch some livecoding videos and think about what's shown, what's hidden, and who the feedback serves.
Moving to the School of Cybernetics
I'm leaving the ANU School of Computing for the new School of Cybernetics---here's what that means for students, colleagues and collaborators.
How to cite code? Leading by example
A YAML-based Statement of Originality that teaches students how to cite code, declare collaborators and list licences in every assignment.
Respectful Learning Memes
Students make brilliant memes to explain course content to each other---so why not make that an official part of the class?
Independent Study Contract writing tips
Practical advice for ANU computing students on writing a capstone project description and learning outcomes that actually guide your research.
Student project: animated 3D code rendering engine
A student project idea: real-time handwriting-style code rendering for livecoding performances, synced to the music.
LENS Online - the Laptop Ensemble in a time of covid19
Taking the ANU Laptop Ensemble online during COVID-19---what changes, what stays the same, and why it might actually work.
ICLC Extempore workshop
Workshop materials and outline for the Introduction to music-making in Extempore session at ICLC 2020, Limerick.
ANU Laptop Ensemble in S1 2020
The ANU Laptop Ensemble is back for Semester 1 2020, open to students in music, art, CS and beyond.
COMP1720 2019 major project exhibtion
Come see the COMP1720 Art & Interaction in New Media major project exhibition---this year's theme is listening in/listening out.
Ben and COMP2300 next year
I'm handing COMP2300 over to Charles Martin in 2020 so I can focus on the c/c/c studio Reimagine Fellowship.
IoT China Study Tour not happening in 2019
The IoT China Study Tour at BIT isn't running this year---the New Colombo Plan grant has expired.
Laptop Ensemble in the Canberra Times
The ANU Laptop Ensemble got a Canberra Times feature, with encouraging words from the School of Music about code in music-making.
Making the most of meetings with research students
Four standard questions I use to keep one-on-one research supervision meetings focused and useful.
The c/c/c studio
The project plan for the c/c/c studio, a creative code outreach program bringing art, music and code to high school students through the ANU Reimagine Fellowship.
Reimagining Engineering & CS at the ANU
My pitch to become a Reimagine Fellow at ANU, making the case for weaving art and creative practice into Engineering and Computer Science.
Class discussions on Discourse
Switching from Piazza to self-hosted Discourse for a 200-student course forum, with practical notes on setup, tradeoffs, and what's missing.
Oils from 威海
A surprise four-hour portrait sitting for a painting class at Shandong University, and the oil paintings that came out of it.
Telopea Hour of Code
Links for Telopea Hour of Code students: the p5 web editor and presentation slides.