Tag: assessment
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What Curriculum Leaders Need to Know About AI in 2026

Most of the AI professional development I see in schools is aimed at everyone. Whole-staff sessions covering the basics: how to use GenAI, how to write a prompt, some tools you might find useful… At the other end of the scale, you see policy sessions aimed at ICT and Business Managers, executive teams, and boards.…
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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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Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI

These 5 Principles for rethinking assessment were important before GenAI, but now they’re even more relevant. In this article, I explore why validity, authenticity, transparency and trust are key to assessment.
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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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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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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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Take-home assessments: AI is not the problem

An article in the SMH, and a follow up editorial in the Sun-Herald, ask whether take-home assessments are invalid because of AI. I think we’re asking the wrong questions.
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How I use the AI Assessment Scale: Part 1

In this post, I explore what the AI Assessment Scale means to me, and how I apply it in different contexts. I also describe what the AIAS is NOT.