Evolutionary informatics: unifying knowledge about the diversity of life

The accelerating growth of data and knowledge in evolutionary biology is indisputable. Despite this rapid progress, information remains scattered, poorly documented and in formats that impede discovery and integration. A grand challenge is the creation of a linked system of all evolutionary data, information and knowledge organized around Darwin's ever-growing Tree of Life. Such a system, accommodating topological disagreement where necessary, would consolidate taxon names, phenotypic and geographical distributional data across clades, and serve as an integrated community resource. The field of evolutionary informatics, reviewed here for the first time, has matured into a robust discipline that is developing the conceptual, infrastructure and community frameworks for meeting this grand challenge

Investigating TPACK as professional knowledge for Australian literacy teachers

The evolving nature of literacy necessitates new bodies of professional knowledge that equip literacy teachers for effective teaching in the digital age. Identifying technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for literacy teaching is defensibly crucial to teacher education programs. While recommendations for new literacies have been put forward by literacy researchers, less is reported about the knowledge that literacy teachers need to develop students’ metalanguage for responding to and composing multimedia and multimodal texts. Critical investigations of what constitutes literacy teachers’ TPACK for negotiating a range of texts across modes, mediums, and contexts with their students warrant further research to inform reforms in literacy education