Welcome to 2025 and ‘Tech Bytes’

Written By Michael Cowling

Welcome to 2025! I’ve decided for 2025 to bring back my blog (‘Tech Bytes’, formerly ‘MAC Bytes’). I’ll still post to social media, but given the rise and fall of social this year, I thought a central archive wise! :)

For the first post, sharing this image of this very lab generated by ChatGPT in late 2024. I think the Professor Tech is pretty good, but not sure why all my minions are using headsets whilst on the computer! But would be nice to have a lab like this eventually.

Anyway, just a short post to start, but keep an eye out for the weekly favourites like Wisdom Wednesday and Feel Good Friday, and enjoy the new year. :)

Michael Cowling

Professor Michael Cowling (Associate Professor - Information & Communication Technology, CQUniversity Australia) has been a leader in educational technology for over 20 years and was the 2020 recipient of the Universities Australia AAUT Award for Teaching Excellence (Physical Sciences). He is an Advance Queensland Community Digital Champion, and an Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Community Fellow.

Tens of thousands of academics, teachers, and students have heard his mantra, 'pedagogy before technology', whilst learning directly and indirectly from him through his award-winning educator workshop series ‘Weaving Technology into the Fabric of the Classroom’, and his Australian government supported ‘Professor Tech’ K-12 student engagement program.

http://www.michaelacowling.com
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