ChatGPT for Teens Still Needs Testing
By Alex Gray · 5 min read
ChatGPT for Teens is a better default for young people. Schools should still treat its safety claims as untested until independent evidence arrives.
27 Aug 2026AI in Education
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AI Policy, Practically
From one-pagers to living documents — what actually holds.
11 pieces02AI Readiness
Infrastructure, literacy, and the uncomfortable audit questions.
8 pieces03School Leadership
For heads, HoDs, and the people carrying the weight of the decision.
21 pieces04Student Voice
What learners are telling us when we finally stop talking.
3 pieces05Build in Public
Field notes from shipping software for teachers, in the open.
6 pieces06Better Adults, Better Humans
A series on the adult skills — focus, rest, productive work — we never teach, and must model.
5 piecesWorth your staffroom
Three pieces we'd bring into a Monday briefing.
I Gave ChatGPT a Week to Build My App
Kerrie sent me another reel about financial freedom, so I spent seven days getting OpenAI's Work agent and Codex to build us a real finance app. Here is the honest scorecard, defects included, and why the skill that caught the worst bug is the exact skill schools now have to teach.
By Alex Gray13 min read
Why a Normal Spec Isn't Enough When AI Builds the Thing
Kerrie sent me a reel about couples and money, and GPT-5.6 had just launched with its new Work feature. So I set out to have AI build us a real app. The specs I would have written for a human engineer were not enough, and the gap between a document that reads well and one an AI cannot misread is the exact same gap sitting inside most school AI policies.
By Alex Gray12 min read
The Productivity Skills Your Students Will Need (And Where They'll Learn Them)
The only productivity advice I got in thirteen years of school was two words: work hard. Here are the five capacities that actually sit underneath productive work, the evidence behind each, and the uncomfortable question of where young people are meant to learn them.
By Alex Gray9 min read
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Alex Gray
Head of Sixth Form & BSME Network Lead for AI in Education. Alex explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching, learning, and the future of work — with honesty, clarity, and a focus on what matters most for educators and students.
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AI Is Not an IT Problem: Why Schools Can't Hand It to the Computing Team
Alex Gray9 min · 26 May
Seven Types of Rest, and Why Sleep Only Fixes One
Alex Gray8 min · 22 May
Better Humans: Why Every Educator Needs a Rest Ethic
Alex Gray10 min · 15 May
Maths, Science, English. But Not How to Think, Work or Focus.
Alex Gray9 min · 3 May
Your Students Can't Focus. Neither Can You. Here's What the Science Says.
Alex Gray5 min · 23 Apr
When AI Fixed the Three-Legged Table: Why That's a Problem for Education
Alex Gray10 min · 19 Apr
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