Tag: media

• 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.

  Leon Furze

  September 15, 2025

  AI, Critical Perspectives

  AI, assessment, curriculum, digital plastic, education, media, strategies

• 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, AI Writing, Digital, Practical Writing Strategies, writing

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• Beyond Cheating: Why the ban and block narrative hides the real threats of ChatGPT in education

  

  If you’re not familiar with this technology and you’d like to understand the basics about AI, large language models, and ChatGPT, then check out this post first. This post is part of a series exploring ways we could (and ways we shouldn’t) bring large language models like ChatGPT into education. The first post, ‘Beyond Efficiency’…

  Leon Furze

  January 21, 2023

  AI, Assessment

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• Two Truths and a Lie: We’re All Teachers of Literacy

  

  There are two times a year when a cohort of teachers is likely to be told “we’re all teachers of literacy”: at the start of Term 1, after the release of VCE and HSC results, and after NAPLAN results go public. It’s a line worn smooth with overuse, to the point where it is basically…

  Leon Furze

  July 13, 2022

  reading, writing

  critical, critical literacy, Digital, digital literacy, literacy, media, media literacy, writing