CRADLE Seminar Series 2026

Upcoming Seminars for 2026

#4: Wednesday 13 May

Entangled intelligence? Distributed cognition, AI agents, and assessment validity. Professor Jason Lodge. Wed 13 May at 2pm.

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.

#5: Tuesday 26 May

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.

#6

15 July 2026

#7

16 September 2026

#8 (Symposium Panel)

14 October 2026

#9

11 November 2026

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Completed Seminars

#1: 18 February 2026

Manifesto for feedback in the age of AI. Wednesday 18 February at 6pm (AEDT)

In our first seminar for 2026, Professor Margaret Bearman facilitated a discussion with some of the team that created the Manifesto for feedback in the age of AI.

#2: 18 March 2026

Unknowable futures: Preparing graduates for an AI-evolving world (of work). Wednesday 18 March at 2pm. Deakin Downtown or online.

Dr Danni Hamilton, Associate Professor Lauren Hansen, and Professor Phillip Dawson shared six curriculum-wide recommendations to prepare graduates for the AI-evolving world (of work).

#3: 15 April 2026

In this seminar CRADLE’s Dr Juuso Nieminen asked 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.