Items with category:Latest Seminar Series Posts
Validity and authenticity: How to treat cognition and AI
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Sky Kusumastuti offers her reflections on our fourth seminar for 2026, ‘Entangled intelligence? Distributed cognition, AI agents, and assessment validity’. This seminar challenged the audience to consider some difficult questions around assessment and GenAI, while acknowledging that we may not know the answers yet.
Beyond grades: the depth of the challenge universities face
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Lincoln Then James offers his reflections on our third seminar for 2026, ‘Is it time to move beyond grades?’ After situating grades in their historical context, this presentation challenged attendees to reconsider long-held beliefs about grades and whether there is still a place for grades in today’s universities.
How to respond to an evidentiary crisis: Voice-First Written Assessment
CRADLE Seminar Series 2026 #5: In this seminar, the University of Oxford’s Kelly Webb-Davies will outline Voice-First Written Assessment - a two-stage assessment model designed in response to the evidentiary crisis that generative AI poses for educators assessing students’ ideation and reasoning. Join us at Deakin Downtown or online on Tuesday 26 May at the special time of 10.30am (AEST).
Entangled intelligence: Is AI changing the way students think?
CRADLE Seminar Series 2026 #4: In this seminar, the University of Queensland’s Professor Jason Lodge will consider whether generative AI is fundamentally restructuring how students think, and ask what might this means for assessments and assessment validity. Join us at Deakin Downtown or online on Wednesday 13 May at 2pm (AEST).
All about balance? How to prepare graduates for the AI-evolving world (of work)
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Siham AbuKhalaf reflects on the critical question of our second seminar for 2026: Unknowable Futures: Preparing Graduates for an AI-Evolving World (of Work). In a world shaped by AI, what should higher education actually prepare students for?
Is it time to move beyond grades?
In this seminar CRADLE’s Dr Juuso Nieminen will critically discuss why higher education systems continue to use grades despite plenty of evidence on how they don’t work, and whether we should now move on. Join us at Deakin Downtown or online on Wednesday 15 April at 2pm (AEDT).
