Category: AI
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The Right to Resist
A recent open letter calling for educators and academics to resist AI has divided the education community. But we should be directing our anger at the right people, and not at one another.
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Stuck Thinking and End-of-School Exams
We think the end of school exam is a lot of things: but is our thinking stuck on unhelpful ideas? If we treat the exam differently, how might it change our assessments and attitudes towards AI?
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Publish (on your) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere
With growing dissatisfaction about the state of the internet, I spent a few months in 2025 digging into things like the fediverse (Mastodon etc.), self-hosting, and other ways of reclaiming the internet from companies like Google. On my travels, I came across the term POSSE, which stands for Publish (on your) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere.…
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Everything I’ve Learned so far About OpenAI’s Agents
This post distills everything I’ve learned so far from testing OpenAI’s Agents, including all available tools and code functions. It includes a 20 minute walkthrough video of a range of tasks.
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Initial Impressions of OpenAI’s Agents: Unfinished, Unsuccessful, and Unsafe
By 12 hours after the announcement I had seen OpenAI’s promo video shared so many times on social media that I could recite the whole thing backwards. I am highly cynical of anything produced by a tech company to advertise a new feature – remember Google’s made up videos? Or OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson stuff up?…
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AI in the Writing Process: A Problem of Purpose
When we value the product of writing more than the process, we’re bound to see students using GenAI to skip to the end. So, what are we going to do about it? #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Writing #AIWriting
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The Narrow Web
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web at CERN, establishing principles like decentralisation, non-discrimination, and universality. However, by 2025, the internet has devolved into a “Narrow Web,” dominated by major platforms, characterised by centralisation and discrimination. To reclaim the open web, users should prioritise independent websites and open-source solutions.
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Lesson planning is a verb: why does tech keep treating it as a noun?
Lesson planning is a process, an action, a verb; but tech companies keep trying to give us buttons that generate products. We need a better approach to technology that values curriculum design.
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Beyond Time-Saving: How GenAI Might Actually Help Teacher Workload
Rather than focusing our attention on “time-saving” and “efficiency”, maybe there are other ways to think about AI and teacher workload. In this article I suggest some alternative areas we could look for improvements, using AI in ways that support human, relational practices in schools.
