Tag: AI
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New Online Course: The Practical AI Process
I’m excited to launch a new course offering AI professional development for educators. The Practical AI Process covers GenAI from foundation to advanced levels. Learn more in the article.
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OpenAI Has Come for Education
He explores how learning management systems already constrain pedagogy by forcing educators to systematize learning into predetermined formats, and questions what happens when OpenAI’s chatbot takes control of content production across these platforms. Furze is particularly concerned about OpenAI’s study mode—which he found pedagogically flawed despite claims of expert input—and sees it as part of…
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GenAI is Normal Edtech
What if AI is “normal” technology? If we don’t have to fear being “left behind”, and if AI will change education not in years, but in decades, how might we rethink our approaches, policies, and pedagogies?
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What Happens When the AI Bubble Bursts?
When the AI bubble bursts – and it will burst – CEOs will be dethroned. Companies will lose billions. The economy – particularly in the US – will take a catastrophic hit. Data centres will suddenly need to downsize their operations and close down entirely. And in education, we’ll need to take yet another long…
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Stuck Thinking and End-of-School Exams
In Stuck Thinking and End-of-School Exams, Leon Furze examines the assumptions that anchor our current model of exam-based assessment—and argues that many of them are “stuck thinking.” He questions why we let the high-stakes end exam dictate upstream assessments, curriculum priorities, and even our trust in students. He suggests we treat exams differently: as one…
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The AI Assessment Scale: New Peer Reviewed Paper
The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here!
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How (not) to use the AIAS
In our new commentary for the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, we explore everything we have learned after two years of working on the AI Assessment Scale AIAS
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Digital Plastic as a framework for Critical AI Literacy
The concept of “digital plastic” in generative AI highlights its characteristics: cheap, malleable, ubiquitous, and persistent. This framework promotes critical AI literacy through classroom strategies, encouraging purposeful use, awareness of implications, and fostering critical judgement in synthetic media creation.
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What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?
I recently asked a group of around 3000 educators from my mailing list what they’d like to learn about GenAI. I’m incredibly lucky to have feet in a couple of camps as both an early career researcher and a consultant/author. It means I have access to the training and skills for working with lots of…
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Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach
PD for GenAI isn’t a “one and done” event – it needs to fit with teachers’ existing disciplinary expertise and their deep, contextual understanding of what it means to teach.