https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily Five minutes a morning on data, technology, and AI in Australian education. en-au Sat, 16 May 2026 13:41:01 GMT https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-16 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-16 Fri, 15 May 2026 22:45:14 GMT Brodie McGee An ACS Information Age essay says universities certify a fiction in the AI era. The ACS itself shows up on the Canvas breach list. Canva and OpenAI open a nonprofit brief. daily-brief higher-education assessment https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-15 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-15 Thu, 14 May 2026 22:59:01 GMT Brodie McGee US lawsuits and Congressional questions land on Instructure. The OAIC Children's Online Privacy Code consultation has three weeks to run, and the Brisbane summit wraps today. daily-brief data-privacy cyber-security https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-14 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-14 Wed, 13 May 2026 22:58:24 GMT Brodie McGee Two days after the budget, the four-body consolidation behind the Teaching and Learning Commission gets $5.6m to scope. The $70m AI Accelerator opens. daily-brief federal-budget higher-education https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-13 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-13 Tue, 12 May 2026 22:50:29 GMT Brodie McGee The federal budget names only $9.4m for TEQSA and $5.9m for STEM in the sector. Victoria pulls schools onto a centralised IT tenant. Canvas closes with a paid ransom. daily-brief federal-budget school-cyber https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-12 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-12 Tue, 12 May 2026 04:03:39 GMT Brodie McGee Instructure pays ShinyHunters in the largest ed-tech breach on record; Australian unis still cleaning up. Plus WA's $4.6M ClassmAIte expansion and tonight's budget. daily-brief canvas instructure cybersecurity ai-in-education https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-11 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-11 Sun, 10 May 2026 22:52:13 GMT Brodie McGee Tuesday brings federal budget night and the Canvas ransom deadline in the same 24 hours. The OAIC has issued its first formal statement, and Adelaide has pulled its Canvas tenant offline. daily-brief canvas-breach data-privacy https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-10 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-10 Sat, 09 May 2026 22:52:17 GMT Brodie McGee Cengage and McGraw Hill sue Meta over Llama. UNSW deploys AI companions for student wellbeing. The school cyber challenge opens, twin Tuesday deadlines loom. daily-brief ai-in-education copyright cybersecurity https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-09 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-09 Fri, 08 May 2026 22:51:16 GMT Brodie McGee Hackers deface Canvas login pages on 7 May. Canvas back online Friday. Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra confirm exposure as the OAIC privacy code consultation runs through to 5 June. daily-brief cyber-security data-privacy https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-08 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-08 Thu, 07 May 2026 22:47:59 GMT Brodie McGee Queensland's QLearn confirms 572,000 K-12 students caught in the Canvas breach. ARC and NHMRC restrict AI for grant assessors. QCAA makes its integrity course a QCE rule. daily-brief canvas-breach ai-in-education cybersecurity https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-07 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-07 Wed, 06 May 2026 22:56:55 GMT Brodie McGee Instructure confirms a Canvas data breach. RMIT, UTS, Western Sydney and TasTAFE check exposure. NSWEduChat goes statewide and unis retreat from Turnitin. daily-brief cybersecurity higher-education https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-06 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-06 Wed, 06 May 2026 09:52:43 GMT Brodie McGee Curtin formalises the third Australian university to ditch AI detection. Plus Microsoft Elevate lands in 1,000 schools and a fresh cognitive atrophy report. daily-brief ai-in-education turnitin microsoft https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-05 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-05 Mon, 04 May 2026 22:52:27 GMT Brodie McGee Victorian teachers halt rolling strikes for two weeks of intensive negotiations. UQ chancellor calls TEQSA's ANU intervention corrosive. Teen social media ban falters six months in. daily-brief workforce governance https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-04 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-04 Sun, 03 May 2026 22:52:01 GMT Brodie McGee Carolyn Evans named University of Melbourne's 22nd Vice-Chancellor. Victorian teachers begin rolling half-day strikes. UTS staff walk off. UQ's cyber resilience approach. daily-brief governance higher-education https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-03 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-03 Sat, 02 May 2026 22:56:32 GMT Brodie McGee Australia's new tertiary regulator has statutory powers from this week. Victoria's curriculum body gets a $222m rescue. Plus international student welfare and a uni fees bill. daily-brief governance higher-education https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-02 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-02 Fri, 01 May 2026 22:56:04 GMT Brodie McGee GenAI is inventing First Nations languages for the classroom. Victoria offers teachers 28% over four years and gets told no. Tasmania settles for less. daily-brief workforce indigenous-education https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-01 https://digitalattitudes.com.au/blog/daily-brief-2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:30:46 GMT Brodie McGee A regulator is picking a public university's chancellor for the first time. Plus teacher retention data, Tasmania's MSO debate, and Victoria's Free TAFE bet. daily-brief governance workforce