The Hamilton and Alexandra College Newsletter

Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning

- Mrs Susan Bradbeer

This is an exciting time of the year when we pause to reflect on the achievements of our senior students and farewell our year 12s as they prepare to sit their final VCE examinations.

 

It is always a bittersweet moment for our young adults. How do you step away from thirteen years of schooling into the next right thing? Our college provides our students with a rich and rewarding range of experiences. The class of 2023 have been stretched to undertake new things, pivot to embrace new challenges and be open to learning about themselves. We look forward to celebrating our senior students at Speech Day this week on Friday 20 October 2023.

 

Alongside these end-of-year events, the College is finalising the 2024 learning programs for all our students. In the coming weeks parents and students will receive confirmation of subjects for 2024 and information about Booklists (via Campion Books), so the preparation for next year can begin. Our Step-Up Program in weeks 9-10 of the term will provide students with an introduction to their new course. They will meet their teachers, class groups, and begin to interact with the course content. This is an important part of our learning program at the College, and we ask our families for full support of student attendance.

 

This year our Teaching and Learning Executive have worked hard to reimagine our approach to feedback to enhance student learning. We have implemented a different approach to assessment and reporting with our Continuous Reporting model and the publication of a Mid-Year and End of Year Report. I encourage parents to remain active on PAM, reviewing the live student feedback and assessment grades throughout the semester. Please be on the lookout for more information about the examinations in week 8.

 

Last week College staff and others from our local education community attended our Reimagine Lecture Series. Leon Furze provided an excellent overview of the future of AI and education and invited our community to lean into the innovative technology and ask the tough questions around how this might inform our teaching and learning. If you have not had a play with AI or a conversation with your child about the impact of recent technologies, I would urge you to do so.

 

CITING AI

 

Different citation styles may have different guidelines for referencing work that has been generated by AI. 

 

You should cite the AI tool whenever you use its content or functionality in your own work, such as paraphrasing, quoting, summarizing, translating, or editing.

  • You should not treat the AI tool as an author, but rather as a source of information or service. You should acknowledge the organization or company that created the AI tool and the date you accessed it.
  • You should describe what was generated by the AI tool and provide the prompt or query that you used, if applicable. You may also include the name and version of the AI tool and the URL where it can be accessed.
  • You should follow the citation format of your chosen style, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. The Hamilton and Alexandra College uses APA.  For example, in APA style, you would cite an AI-generated text as follows:
  1. (OpenAI, 2023)

or

  1. OpenAI. (2023). “Describe the symbolism of the green light in The Great Gatsby” prompt. ChatGPT, 13 Feb. version. https://chat.openai.com/chat.

 

For more examples and details, you can check out this web page:

 

KYM DEMPSEY

Head of Library and Information Services