David Jones
Teacher (Digital Technology & Mathematics)
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Jones is an experienced educator and learning designer with 16 years specialising in digital technologies and mathematics, currently teaching at Laidley State High School in Toowoomba. He combines deep academic grounding—a PhD in Information Systems and a double major in Computer Science and Philosophy—with hands-on leadership roles in tertiary learning and e-learning innovation across multiple Australian universities. David excels at integrating pedagogy, curriculum design and digital tools to orchestrate meaningful learning experiences, and has led institutional projects supporting thousands of students. Notably, he bridges theory and practice by moving from university-level educational strategy and consultancy to classroom teaching, bringing a systems-thinking approach to everyday lessons.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBA, Double Major Computer Science, Major Philosophy, BA, Double Major Computer Science, Major Philosophy at The University of QueenslandGraduate Diploma of Learning and Teaching (with Distinction), Information Technology, Mathematics, Graduate Diploma of Learning and Teaching (with Distinction), Information Technology, Mathematics at Central Queensland University
Github Skills (37)
vscode10
html-to-docx9
markdown9
moodle9
ai7
manim7
python7
html5
sql5
math5
docx5
openai4
inference4
canvas3
vue3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
djplaner/moodle-mod_bim
Mar 2010 - Jul 2018
A Moodle activity module the provides support for managing/marking individual student blogs hosted on external services.
Contributions:305 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 8 years 5 months
moodle
djplaner/word-to-canvas-module
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
A userscript that will create a Canvas Module (including all module items) from a Word document (using special styles)
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 241 pushes in 1 year 6 months
instructure-canvasword-documentcanvasjavascriptuserscript
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