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OWNA Templates: Using AI Alongside, Not Inside
How I use AI with OWNA templates without breaking them: a Sydney ECT's draft-outside, hand-condense workflow after two paste-induced sync errors in one month.
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The Observation an AI Could Not Help Me Write
Can AI write childcare observations? The day a two-year-old broke six weeks of silence, the AI mis-tagged the whole story, and why I wrote it by hand instead.
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Using AI for Parent Comms When Families Don't Read English
How I use AI for parent communication when families don't read English: a Sydney ECT's plain-language workflow, the words AI gets wrong, and what I never automate.
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Drafting EYLF Learning Stories With AI: Format I Keep
How I write EYLF learning stories with AI: the 5-block format I hand the model every time, and the child-voice lines I always rewrite by hand.
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Five Curriculum Ideas From the AI — The One I Picked for Our Yard
I used AI for lesson planning in early childhood education to brainstorm five sustainability themes for 3-4s, then picked the one our yard could actually hold.
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Writing Child Observations With AI Without Losing Your Voice
I tried writing child observations with AI and deleted my first three. Here is the before-and-after, the guardrail prompt, and how I keep my teacher voice.
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AI wrote the parent newsletter — 4 prompts to sound like me
A Friday at 5:40pm. Blank newsletter template. Twenty minutes of blinking cursor. Four prompts later, the AI sounded like me — not a corporate chain.
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