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Professor Garry Falloon

Professor, Education and Research Advisor

Campus

Mt Helen 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
  • Publications

Human-machine knowledge building: reconceptualising knowledge building partnerships in the age of artificial intelligence