When I started my stay at the Connected Intelligence Centre, I wrote that I didn\u2019t want to come to Australia to do exactly the same things I do in Murcia, only 17,500 kilometres further away.<\/p>\n
Educational Optics<\/em> wasn\u2019t part of the plan then. The idea emerged here, while talking with Simon about what I could share from what we do in Murcia, and how I could do that in a place that doesn\u2019t necessarily share our references, our vocabulary, or the way we frame problems. At some point I thought that perhaps I needed more than one seminar\u2026 and, you know, once you start adding, why stop? (yes, the Muchness dear Alice), so four emerged: The Prism, The Lens, The Mirror and The Telescope<\/strong>.<\/p>\n But the seminars didn\u2019t exist. I built them here from scratch: the arguments, the connections, the questions, the metaphors and every single slide, the visual identities, the fonts, the colour palettes\u2026 And that process ended up becoming a much more important part of my stay than I had expected.<\/p>\n I even had to think about how to introduce myself\u2026 I had great fun making slides that introduced me through the metaphors themselves (I\u2019m particularly proud of the ones in the first two seminars). The Prism<\/em> forced me to think about what I actually wanted to do with our work on the dimensions of AI, beyond simply presenting a framework. The Lens<\/em> made me return to PLEs and ask myself what I can see in them now that I didn\u2019t see in quite the same way a few years ago. The Mirror<\/em> started with teachers\u2019 digital competence and ended up connecting it with institutional digital transformation and educational judgement. And while preparing The Telescope<\/em>, I realised that the story I wanted to tell wasn\u2019t really the story of the different things I\u2019ve been doing with AI in my teaching but, as I ended up saying in the seminar, the evolution of the problems I needed to solve and of what I needed to be able to see.<\/p>\n Each seminar was also being built while the stay itself was still unfolding: through conversations, questions, meetings, and the seminars that came before it. Some connections emerged precisely through trying to explain my work here and listening to what other people could see in it.<\/p>\n When I planned the series, I talked about it as an exercise in translation: reformulating my work so that it could enter into conversation with people who don\u2019t necessarily belong to my field. What I hadn\u2019t thought enough about was that translating your work for others also forces you to look at it again yourself.<\/p>\n I haven\u2019t discovered that everything I\u2019ve done over the last twenty years was secretly connected \u2014 fortunately \u2014 but connections and questions have emerged that I want to keep thinking about. In fact, there were things I wanted to do and was absolutely sure I would do that, after working through these seminars, I\u2019ve now decided to do differently. And some I\u2019ve decided not to do at all\u2026<\/p>\n So Educational Optics<\/em> hasn\u2019t been a series of four seminars that I came to Australia to give. It has been one of the things I built during my time here.<\/p>\n And that difference matters to me. It is a fundamental part of what I\u2019m taking away from this time here\u2026 As you can see, things are starting to wind down\u2026 although, in the end, nothing ever really comes to a complete close. 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