Making teachers’ hidden digital work visible
I am Dominic Brash, a secondary teacher and education researcher based in Melbourne. My work focuses on the digitally mediated work of teachers, informal peer learning in staffrooms, and how schools and systems shape teachers’ digital lives. Choose the path below that best matches who you are.
Digitally Mediated Work of Teachers (DMWT)
Teachers now work across lesson plans, welfare platforms, assessment dashboards, email and messaging tools, often at the same time as they are teaching in the room. I use the idea of Digitally Mediated Work of Teachers (DMWT) to name and unpack this hidden digital load so we can talk about it more honestly and design better support.
Informal Peer Knowledge Exchange
Most of the useful digital practice in schools does not come from formal PD, it grows through quick staffroom conversations, shared templates and on the spot troubleshooting between colleagues. My work traces how this informal peer exchange sustains digital practice and where it starts to strain under workload and trust pressures.
How schools shape digital practice
Teachers’ digital days are shaped by timetables, policies, enterprise agreements and whole system decisions about platforms and data. I examine how these organisational and industrial settings enable and constrain teachers’ digital practice, and what this means for leadership and workload reform.
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