Professor Garry Falloon
Professor, Education and Research Advisor
Campus
Biography
Garry Falloon is Research Professor of Education in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University (Mt. Helen) and Honorary Professor in the School of Education at Macquarie University (Sydney).
Before joining Federation in March 2023, he was Professor of Education and Director of International Engagement in the Macquarie University School of Education in Sydney, NSW (2017-2023) and Associate Professor and Professor of Digital Learning in the Faculty of Education at Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand (2010-2017). His background includes 22 years of teaching and leadership of primary and secondary schools in New Zealand, Education Foundation Manager at Telecom New Zealand, working with Microsoft in the Partners in Learning and Digital Learning Object projects, and as project lead for the New Zealand Government’s $10m Digital Opportunities Project.
Garry's research interests are STEM-focused and include mobile learning, digital learning in primary and middle schools, online and blended learning, curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment in digitally-supported innovative learning environments, learning in primary science and technology, and educational research methods. He is currently CI for the ARC Discovery Project: Coding Animated Narratives as Contemporary Multimodal Authorship in Schools, and was previously the NSW lead for the Commonwealth Government’s Principals as STEM Leaders (PASL) project. Garry has served on numerous advisory and writing panels for eLearning policy and curriculum development, industry and sector advisory boards, and the NZ Prime Minister's Panel of Experts for Digital Learning.
Fields of research
- Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy
- Primary education
- Early childhood education
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- Publications
Human-machine knowledge building: reconceptualising knowledge building partnerships in the age of artificial intelligence
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s11423-026-10605-2
Learning contexts and visions for STEM in schools
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09500693.2024.2323032
Moving beyond the rhetoric: integrating coding into the English curriculum in Australian primary schools
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s13384-024-00742-z
Imagined Communities of Chinese International Graduates in Australia and New Zealand
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/ijal.12637
The Critical Need for Creative Technologies Education
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003490715-1
Students as Multimodal Designers and Authors
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003490715-6
Creative Technologies Education - Lessons Learnt and Future Directions
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003490715-16
Students as multimodal designers and authors
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003490715-6
The critical need for creative: Technologies education
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003490715-1
Innovating Professional Development in Early Childhood Education: The Integration of Generative AI and Gamification
An exploration of online technoliteracy capability teaching and learning in early years classrooms
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10639-023-12239-w
A self-determination theory approach to teacher digital competence development
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.compedu.2024.105017
Using Learning Analytics to Understand K–12 Learner Behavior in Online Video-Based Learning
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.24059/olj.v28i1.3675
Advancing young students' computational thinking: An investigation of structured curriculum in early years primary schooling
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.compedu.2024.105045
Integrating coding across the curriculum: a scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/08993408.2024.2344402
Investigating Pedagogical, Technological And School Factors Underpinning Effective 'Critical Thinking Curricula' in K-6 Education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101447
The Search for Computer Science Concepts in Coding Animated Narratives: Tensions and Opportunities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/07356331231174929
An analysis of the nature of young students' STEM learning in 3D technology-enhanced makerspaces
Understanding the translingual practices among international students in multilingual cities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1075/aral.20070.yin
Educational leaders' perceptions of STEM education revealed by their drawings and texts
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0020739X.2023.2170290
Twelve years of iPads and apps in schools: What conditions support effective practices in K-6 classrooms?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1122522
Coding across the curriculum: challenges for non-specialist teachers
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-031-21970-2_16
The Influence of Grouping on Young Students' Learning While Coding: An Analysis of Talk in Different Pair Arrangements
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-981-19-0568-1_15
Problem solved, but how? An exploratory study into students' problem solving processes in creative coding tasks
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101193
What is the nature of STEM learning in junior school Makerspaces? a cross-case analysis
Shaping science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum in Australian schools: An ecological systems analysis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/00049441221083347
STEM in the Making? Investigating STEM Learning in Junior School Makerspaces
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s11165-020-09949-3
Principal Leadership and Proximal Processes in Creating STEM Ecosystems: An Australian Case Study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/15700763.2022.2094810
Enacting a Vision: One School's Transition to Becoming an ILE
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-981-16-5711-5_13
What are languages worth? Community languages for the future of New South Wales 2021, 2nd edition
An Analysis of the Nature of Young Students' STEM Learning in 3D Technology-Enhanced Makerspaces
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/10409289.2020.1781325
Young children's design thinking skills in makerspaces
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2020.100216
Using Animated Simulations to Support Young Students’ Science Learning
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-030-56047-8_5
New Zealand’s ICT-In-Education Development (1990–2018)
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-981-15-6157-3_8
The Problem of Perception: Challenging Students’ Views of Science and Scientists through School-Scientist Partnerships
Understanding K-12 STEM Education: a Framework for Developing STEM Literacy
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10956-020-09823-x
From digital literacy to digital competence: the teacher digital competency (TDC) framework
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s11423-020-09767-4
From simulations to real: Investigating young students’ learning and transfer from simulations to real tasks
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/bjet.12885
Children’s views on making and designing
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/1350293X.2020.1735747
Makerspaces pedagogy–supports and constraints during 3D design and 3D printing activities in primary schools
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09523987.2020.1744845
The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood
- Book
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781315143040
The pros and cons of using display capture technology for data collection with young children
Using simulations to teach young students science concepts: An Experiential Learning theoretical analysis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.compedu.2019.03.001
By design: Professional learning ecologies to develop primary school teachers’ makerspaces pedagogical capabilities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/bjet.12743
High impact learning and teaching using 3D design and 3D printing in primary school makerspaces
Seven Years of Research: What We've Learned About Young Children and Mobile Devices at Schools
Makerspaces in Primary School Settings: advancing 21st century and STEM capabilities using 3D Design and 3D Printing
Exploring the Potential: What works and what doesn't with digital learning objects
iPad apps and visual methodologies: Empirical and ethical issues in achieving authentic data
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.25304/rlt.v26.2029
Researching students across spaces and places: capturing digital data ‘on the go’
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/1743727X.2016.1219983
Teacher Transition Between Year Levels: An argument for professional learning
- Journals
- DOI reference: https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0080
Exploring student thinking, problem solving, and collaboration in iPad-supported learning environments
Using qualitative data analysis tools ‘fit for purpose’ for making sense of teacher educators’ use of digital technologies in their pedagogical practices
Using apps as digital scaffolds for science learning in the primary school
Mobile Devices and Apps as Scaffolds to Science Learning in the Primary Classroom
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10956-017-9702-4
Digital Learning Objects and the Development of Students’ Thinking Skills
Student Engagement with Technology: So, What’s it Got to Do with Learning?
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4018/978-1-61350-074-3.ch020
“Learning digitally” - E-classrooms: Computers looking for a problem to solve?
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1142/9789812774651_0014
Planning and implementing coding in the junior classroom for competency and thinking-skill development
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.18296/set.0031
The Science-for-Life Partnerships: Does size really matter, and can ICT help?
- Journals
- DOI reference: https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v20i3.235
Creating content: Building literacy skills in year 1 students using open format apps
Inside the virtual classroom: Student perspectives on affordances and limitations
Exploring the Virtual Classroom: What Students Need to Know (and Teachers Should Consider)
Deliberate acts of virtual communication: cellphones as a tool to enhance student learning and engagement
Towards effective business-education partnerships in ICT: The Partners in Learning (N.Z.) Innovative Teacher Scholarships Project
Assessing the impact of educational technology (ICT) in the classroom: Broadening our view
When ICT meets the technology curriculum: A case study of multimedia development in preservice teacher education
iPad mediated talk in young children’s learning and exploration of interests
Building computational thinking through programming in K-6 education: a New Zealand experience
Remember your swipy finger? understanding iPad mediated talk in young children’s learning and exploration
Challenges to establishing school-scientist partnerships in the 21st century: case studies from New Zealand
He ara hou ka t? mai: NZ institutions of higher learning unpacking demands and facilitating change
Digital learning objects: Towards an understanding of their value in supporting key competencies within the New Zealand Curriculum framework. ACT on ICT
Exploring the potential: What works and what doesn't with Digital Learning Objects (DLOs) - The Microsoft Partners in Learning (N.Z.) - Project MiLO
Towards effective business-education partnerships in ICT: The Partners in Learning (N.Z.) Innovative Teacher Scholarship Project (Project MiNTS)
The Digital Classroom: Key findings from a study into teacher and student work practices in a digitally-dominated environment
International partnerships in science-education: potential for Chilean-New Zealand interactions
Establishing a school-scientist partnership in the primary school: Findings from the Lynmore SSP: SCION Technical report #48294
A study of a Crown Research Institute (CRI) - school interaction: The Newstead experience
An evaluation/impact study of the second phase of the Microsoft digital learning object project
An evaluation of the Microsoft Partners in Learning (PiL) New Zealand initiative
An evaluation of the Microsoft Partners in Learning (PiL) New Zealand Initiative: Project Baseline Report
An evaluation of the first phase of the Microsoft Digital Learning Object Project
The Microsoft Innovative Teacher Scholarship Project: Cycle two evaluation research
An analysis of young students' thinking when completing basic coding tasks using Scratch Jnr. On the iPad
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jcal.12155
What's the difference? Learning collaboratively using iPads in conventional classrooms
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.compedu.2015.01.010
What's going on behind the screens? Researching young students' learning pathways using iPads
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jcal.12044
Exploring young students' talk in iPad-supported collaborative learning environments
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.compedu.2014.04.008
Forging School-Scientist Partnerships: A Case of Easier Said than Done?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10956-013-9435-y
e-Science Partnerships: Towards a Sustainable Framework for School-Scientist Engagement
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10956-012-9401-0
Young students using iPads: App design and content influences on their learning pathways
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.06.006
Developing School-Scientist Partnerships: Lessons for Scientists from Forests-of-Life
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10956-012-9372-1
Using videoconferencing in a school-scientist partnership: Students' perceptions and scientists' challenges
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17194
Making the connection: Moore's theory of transactional distance and its relevance to the use of a virtual classroom in postgraduate online teacher education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/15391523.2011.10782569
Adoption of innovative e-learning support for teaching: A multiple case study at the University of Waikato
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.14742/ajet.957
Learning objects and the development of students' key competencies: A New Zealand school experience
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.14742/ajet.1055
Using avatars and virtual environments in learning: What do they have to offer?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.00991.x
