Tag: AI
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What the National AI Plan Means for Schools
The Australian National AI Plan 2025 has significant implications for schools. Here’s what educators need to know about policy, procurement, professional development, and 2026 planning.
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Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education
In Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education, Leon Furze reflects on his experience at the Future Skills Organisation National Forum in Canberra, arguing that the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector is ideally positioned to meaningfully integrate GenAI.
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Teaching AI Ethics: Data 2025
This is an updated post in the series exploring AI ethics, building on the original 2023 discussion of data and “datafication”. This post explores why and how GenAI relies on so much data collection, how AI companies are gathering the information, and what it means for education.
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The Near Future of GenAI: December 2025 Update Part 1
What’s next for Generative AI? Discover the latest trends in AI Agents, synthetic media, and the battle for dominance between Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
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Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with GenAI
In Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI, Leon Furze argues that assessment reform should focus on good pedagogical practice rather than policing AI use. While the AI Assessment Scale has become widely adopted, Furze emphasizes that the principles behind it—validity, authenticity, transparency—were important long before ChatGPT.
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Good Enough and Better Than Me: Two Problematic Student Perspectives on Gen AI
For the past few months, I’ve been visiting schools and hearing from students about why and how they’re using (or refusing) generative artificial intelligence. In this article, I’m talking about two of the more problematic perspectives that have emerged from those conversations: it’s good enough, and it’s better than me.
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Teaching AI Ethics: Privacy 2025
This is an updated post in the series exploring AI ethics, building on the original 2023 discussion of privacy concerns. As generative AI has become embedded in our daily digital lives from chatbots to smart glasses the privacy implications have grown more complex and immediate. This post explores how GenAI has transformed privacy risks and…
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About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI
In About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI, Leon Furze pushes back against simplistic binaries about whether AI helps or harms learning. He argues that young people are adaptable and capable, and proposes five overlapping approaches to thinking about AI in education. Learning about AI covers AI literacy—how to use and understand…
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Hands on with Canva Code
When Canva first launched its code tools in Canva AI, I was pretty cynical. In fact, I was definitely too harsh, with my first post based on a few basic experiments. I wasn’t impressed because I couldn’t see how it was any different to other offerings such as ChatGPT’s Canvas or Claude’s Artifacts – it…
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Open Source AI is Going Mainstream
In Open Source AI is Going Mainstream, Leon Furze explores the growing significance of open source artificial intelligence beyond the GPT-5 hype cycle. He begins by clarifying what “open source AI” actually means, noting that the term has become contentious—many so-called “open source” models from companies like Meta are more accurately described as “open weights,”…