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Australian Horror One

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Australian Horror One The Lost Soldier to an Empire of Bone and Ash Under the unsparing glare of a white-hot sky, the horror does not lurk in the shadows—it bakes into the earth's surface itself. This work reimagines Australian Gothic through a visceral, speculative dread, where the landscape is not merely hostile, but an active, devouring force that refuses to let the past rot in peace. The horror is elemental and corporeal: human history grafted directly into ancient geology. Flesh has not decayed; it has calcified into red Tanami clay, oxidized stone, and petrified khaki cotton. The intrusion of human technology—the corroded copper telegraph wire coiled into sinew, the thick glass insulators staring blindly as unblinking eyes—suggests a brutal, botched metamorphosis. It is the physical manifestation of an unspoken colonial and wartime trauma, where the forgotten dead are subsumed, weaponized, and regurgitated by the country they sought to cross. Standing stranded on a melting hi...
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Texting Technology Thinking

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Whilst writing has existed for many centuries the association of writing as technology is relatively new. The question is - How do changes in technologies influence knowledge & influence thinking?

Chisel and Stone




Reed pen


papyrus roll



press and vellum


typewriter and paper


keyboard and computer screen



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Mobile writing technology is now the first choice in today's youth and how is it changing thinking? 14% done in class!!!


Educators are caught in this change. Students are wanting to write but in a technology that is not designed for essay writing. Mobile Keyboards are changing to accommodate fast Mobile TXTing


Software for touch screens


Technology changes thinking. Allow it to change thinking in your classroom


New technologies create cultural disturbances. Every new technology gives us two things — promise and consequence. The promise attracts us towards technology and encourages us to adopt it. 

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