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Talks written for
your audience.

Keynotes, workshops and conference talks on AI literacy, ethics in education, and digital research skills for Australian schools. I shape each one around what you want your audience to take away.

Sandy Robinson presenting at the ISQ Teaching and Learning Showcase, slide projected behind her.
On stage

"AI as a Learner's Apprentice: Building a Culture of Inquiry." ISQ Teaching & Learning Showcase.

Sandy at an education conference between sessions, in a pink tutu and lanyard, speaking with attendees in a venue corridor.
Between sessions

Catching up with teachers between sessions.

Featured talk

AI as a Learner's Apprentice.

Building a culture of inquiry inside a school using AI.

How a school can turn AI from a shortcut into an apprentice for student thinking. The frameworks, the classroom practice, and the design choices that put inquiry back at the centre of how students work with the tools.

Delivered at the Independent Schools Queensland Teaching & Learning Showcase.

Showcase session School audiences Adaptable to conferences
What I speak on

Topics I speak on.

I'll shape the talk around what you want your audience to take away.

AI literacy in schools

How to teach students to think with AI rather than through it. Built around the VERIFY and Reality Audit frameworks.

AI ethics in education

Moving past academic integrity worries to what ethical AI use looks like day to day for students and teachers.

Research and digital literacy in the AI age

Teaching students to find, evaluate, and use information when generative AI sits between them and every source.

Building edtech from inside a school

How I replaced the school's old research platform, and what changes when the person building it works alongside the students who use it.

Programme delivery

Workshops and events.

Not everything happens on a stage. A lot of the work is in classrooms and at events like this one.

Workshop room with students at laptops during the Kids Vibe Coding Hackathon.
Kids Vibe Coding Hackathon

First global site of the Worldwide Kids Vibe Coding Hackathon, co-hosted by Peregian Digital Hub and St Andrew’s Anglican College. Nine students aged 9 to 13 built their own websites, apps, and games in four hours using AI-assisted creation tools.

Co-led with Larry Hay, in partnership with the Peregian Digital Hub.

Overhead view of two students working at a Hackathon table: an iPad, a hand-drawn idea poster, sticky notes, and a St Andrew's uniform.
Sketch becomes build

Students turning hand-drawn idea sheets into working prototypes on an iPad.

I would like to thank Sandra Robinson and Larry Hay for their leadership and for embracing opportunities to deepen their professional understanding of how these emerging tools can extend student learning across the College.
Brett Moller, Director of Knowledge Services & Head of Technologies, St Andrew's Anglican College. Quoted in the College news.
About the Hackathon Read the College write-up
Formats

Choose the format that suits your event.

Keynotes

Conference main stage

Conference main stage, 25 to 45 minutes, built around one clear idea the audience can take away.

Workshops

Hands-on sessions

Half or full day, hands-on. Teachers leave with something they can use in class the following week.

Panels

Conference and event panels

Conference and event panels. Happy to offer a different view when it's useful.

Podcasts

Guest appearances

Guest appearances for longer conversations about AI in education.

I also run in-school workshops and staff PD on AI literacy. Get in touch to arrange one.

Book a talk

Tell me about
your event.

Send me your audience, the date and the topic you're interested in, and I'll reply with a short proposal.

Send a speaking enquiry