Tag: book

• Teaching Writing with Generative AI

  

  This post is based on a presentation I ran recently at the AATE conference. It takes the writing cycle approach from our book ‘Practical Writing Strategies‘ and applies Generative AI at various stages. One of the most pressing concerns at the recent Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) conference was the implications of…

  Leon Furze

  July 13, 2023

  AI, Digital, Practical Writing Strategies, writing

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• Practical Writing Strategies: Sneak Peak

  

  This is an extract from the introduction to Practical Writing Strategies. PWS is written by myself and Benjamin White, and will be published by Amba Press later this year. Introduction What is writing? When Leon wrote Practical Reading Strategies, he started with a seemingly simple question: what is reading? The question came from a Community…

  Leon Furze

  February 4, 2023

  writing

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• Advanced Techniques for ChatGPT in education

  

  In a previous post on Practical Strategies for ChatGPT, I explored some of the basics of prompting the AI language model. I also organised education tasks into six areas: In this post I’ll go deeper into prompt techniques, and I’m organising around five key skills that could be used to lift your prompts in any…

  Leon Furze

  February 1, 2023

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• Interview with Mike Sharples: Story Machines

  

  Feature image by DALL E & Leon Furze I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Sharples, coauthor of Story Machines, which is available now from Routledge. You can also check out Mike’s AI story writer at https://story-machines.net/ if you want to try your hand at writing (or co writing) an AI story yourself. Transcript…

  Leon Furze

  August 24, 2022

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• Teachers as Writers: Part Three

  

  In the previous two posts in this series I explored the reasons teachers might wish to write, and some of the ways in which teachers could increase their writing output. In this third and final post on the subject, I’ll explore the process of moving from teacher to author, and how to get published. Calling…

  Leon Furze

  August 17, 2022

  writing

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• Teachers as Writers: Part One

  

  This is the first post in a three-part series focusing on teachers as writers. In this series, I’m going to explore why and how teachers should write for themselves and for an audience – whether that’s an audience of students or an audience of published work. Why write? There are many great reasons to pick…

  Leon Furze

  August 3, 2022

  writing

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• Review: Story Machines by Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez

  

  Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez’s Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers presents an entertaining account of Artificial Intelligence, and of both human and machine creativity. Having heard Mike Sharples talk on a podcast about his ideas regarding the future of Artificial Intelligence, I expected the book to be looking forward into…

  Leon Furze

  July 27, 2022

  Digital, reading, writing

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