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Update Jan 2025

Paul Browning

Vivedus Pty Ltd was officially founded on 5 March 2024, and launched to the public on 24 May 2024. Since its establishment our team has transformed their knowledge, research, and experience into what we believe is a ground-breaking innovation in education: a world-first Learning Activation Model (LAM) and SaaS Platform. And I don’t use the terms “ground-breaking” or “world-first” lightly. There is nothing else on the market like it; we even had to create a new market category to put Vivedus into, a Learning Activation category.

Are We Guilty of Dogmatism? Reimagining Education for a Rapidly Changing World

Gabrielle Kempton

Education is at a crossroads. In our pursuit of improving outcomes, are we inadvertently stifling the very skills our students need to thrive in an uncertain, fast-evolving world? As educators, we must ask: Have we fallen victim to the pendulum effect, swinging dramatically toward standardization and evidence-based practices, or are we courageous enough to embrace transformation? Have we replaced adaptability with dogmatism, clinging to what we know because the unknown feels too risky?

Embracing change in education: Moving from ‘What is’ to ‘What might be’

Gabrielle Kempton

With AI revolutionising nearly every field, educators are now preparing students for a future where AI is an integrated part of life and work. This shift presents an unparalleled opportunity for schools and teachers to rethink traditional education, envisioning new approaches where students not only acquire and reproduce knowledge but grow their creative intelligence while being empowered to work with and generate innovative solutions and ideas.

Meet Viv-it: your personal professional development coach

Paul Browning

At Vivedus, we're thrilled to announce Viv-it, a revolutionary AI-powered professional coach designed specifically for educators. Built with OpenAI’s technology, Viv-it provides teachers with personalised coaching to enhance their professional skills, adapt innovative pedagogies, and ultimately impact every student's creative and cognitive growth.

The hidden barriers to educational change: Why transformation feels impossible

Paul Browning

For decades, educational leaders, policymakers, and visionaries have been calling for a transformation of schools to prepare students for an unpredictable, AI-dominated future. Despite these calls, meaningful change has been slow and sporadic. Schools remain tethered to outdated models—standardised testing, rigid curricula, and top-down leadership structures. But why is change so hard? Let’s explore the key barriers holding back innovation and transformation in education.

A framework for change: The Rider, the Elephant, and the Path

Paul Browning

Education is often seen as a highly change-resistant industry, with teachers feeling weary from political interference and increasing demands on their time. How can school leaders inspire educators to embrace new approaches despite these challenges?

Update October 2024

Paul Browning

It has been another busy month for the team at Vivedus.

Update September 2024

Paul Browning

As we reflect on September, we’re excited to share some incredible milestones and moments of learning that have shaped our journey at Vivedus this month.

Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace

Lance Hockridge

I grew up in a world in which technical and occupational skills were all important. The subjects we were taught and the approach to learning was about equipping us for the workforce of the late 20th century. While a breadth of knowledge was important, and schools and universities taught critical thinking, for the most part innovation and creativity were the domain of the arts.

Update for April 2025

Paul Browning

This past month has been an exciting time for Vivedus as our team travelled across the country, spoke at key conferences, and met with schools from Australia and New Zealand.

Update for March 2025

Paul Browning

March was a busy month for the Vivedus team, filled with travel, new partnerships, and exciting developments in our platform.

Update Feb 2205

Paul Browning

February was a busy month for the team at Vivedus with trips around the country to run leadership workshops and introduce schools to what Vivedus can do. Leaders from 12 schools in Adelaide joined us, and six schools from the Townsville region.

Update Jan 2025

Paul Browning

Meet Viv-it: your personal professional development coach

Paul Browning

Update October 2024

Paul Browning

It has been another busy month for the team at Vivedus.

Update September 2024

Paul Browning

As we reflect on September, we’re excited to share some incredible milestones and moments of learning that have shaped our journey at Vivedus this month.

Update August 2024

Paul Browning

Celebrating six-months of Vivedus! Six-month Report: 30 August 2024. Our vision: To activate creative intelligence (and transform education globally) Our purpose: to offer schools and educators a dynamic learning activation model that cultivates creative intelligence Our values: creativity, agency, collaboration and evidence

Update July 2024

Paul Browning

The Vivedus Team have made significant progress in our brand messaging and platform development in the last month. We were able to showcase the first module of our platform to a group of teachers who were thrilled with its usability.

Smell like sheep

Paul Browning

If I had the choice to pick a leader, who would I choose to follow? All around the world, people are searching for new leaders. The Vatican prepares for a Conclave, the Church of England is selecting a new Archbishop of Canterbury, and here in Australia, we are voting for the next Prime Minister. These are significant positions of power.

NAPLAN, World Economic Forum and Creativity

Paul Browning

With the attention on NAPLAN last month we might be forgiven for thinking that it is a measure of the primary purpose of school; after all, the results of NAPLAN, ATAR and PISA are the only measures obsessed about. But what is the purpose of education if it isn’t about preparing young people for future employment and a life of thriving?

Dreams for your school…

Paul Browning

As I travel around the country running leadership workshops for current and aspiring principals, I invite a discussion beginning with the question, “what are your dreams for your school?”

Are We Guilty of Dogmatism? Reimagining Education for a Rapidly Changing World

Gabrielle Kempton

The hidden barriers to educational change: Why transformation feels impossible

Paul Browning

Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace

Lance Hockridge

A Fresh Perspective on the Future of Teaching

Paul Browning

Stepping out of a school has given me a different perspective, and I’m now more concerned than ever about the sustainability of teaching as a profession—and, by extension, the future of education.

The Age of AI intersects with the Industrial Model of Education?

Paul Browning

We are living in a brave new world, the Age of Accelerations. I’m going to be provocative when I say this, and I don’t mean to be insensitive, but I worry that too many people have their heads in the sand leaving them to be reactive rather than proactive when it comes to AI.

The Moral Machine

Professor Nigel Crook

Asimov was a professor in biochemistry at Boston University and a prolific writer of popular science and science fiction books and articles. He is most widely known for his series of short stories and novels that depict a futuristic world inhabited by both humans and robots. His robots all have ‘positronic brains’ and their behaviour is governed by the Three Laws of Robotics which formed a moral code designed to guarantee that robots would not harm humans, that they would obey orders, and protect their own existence. Asimov used short fictional stories as a way of exploring some of the consequences of equipping robots with a moral code. In my book, Rise of the Moral Machine: Exploring Virtue Through a Robot’s Eyes, I thought it appropriate to continue in this tradition and have included four short fictional stories about robots and morality. Here’s the first story:

Rethinking Creativity: More Than Just “Thinking Outside the Box”

Gabrielle Kempton

Over the past few years, I’ve had countless conversations with educators, school leaders, and even students about creativity. It's a word we all use—but when I ask people to define it, I’m often met with a thoughtful pause... followed by a wide range of answers.

Culture is King

Paul Browning

This article is a follow on from “Have you read?” recommendations in last month’s Vivedus newsletter. It is also a follow on from the Optimising Conditions for Learning workshops Vivedus has been running for school leaders across the country.

Are We Willing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Rethinking School Success for a Complex World

Gabrielle Kempton

What does it truly mean to be an educated person in an age of artificial intelligence, rapid technological advancement, and global uncertainty? If information is at our fingertips, how do we define success beyond the ability to recall facts? Our education system must grapple with these questions to ensure we are preparing students not just for exams, but for life.

Embracing change in education: Moving from ‘What is’ to ‘What might be’

Gabrielle Kempton

A framework for change: The Rider, the Elephant, and the Path

Paul Browning

One coin … two sides

Nigel Grant

The provocation for this article was an article I read recently (and a subsequent conversation with the lead author and with my ViVEDUS colleagues, Paul Browning and Gabrielle Kempton). The article was “The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education”1 and the lead author was Katie Beresford.

Teaching for Creativity and Shifting Assessment Practices: Transforming Learning in Schools

Gabrielle Kempton

In contemporary educational discussions, promoting creativity in students and reforming traditional assessment methods are considered crucial for transforming school learning. These concurrent developments not only boost student engagement but also equip learners with vital critical thinking and problem-solving abilities needed for the 21st century.

Co-design and student engagement towards 2050

Dr Ian Thompson

Wandering (aka Vacilando) – A Key Component of Creativity

Edward Brooker

To wander is to invite creativity, to allow serendipity, and to ponder other options.