Considered thinking on AI, pedagogy, and leadership — written for teachers and school leaders with a class to teach tomorrow morning.
By Alex Gray · 4 min read
After AI-assisted work, change one condition relevant to the subject. A proposed physics follow-up can help teachers see what students understand and what to reteach.
From one-pagers to living documents — what actually holds.
12 pieces02Infrastructure, literacy, and the uncomfortable audit questions.
8 pieces03For heads, HoDs, and the people carrying the weight of the decision.
25 pieces04What learners are telling us when we finally stop talking.
3 pieces05Field notes from shipping software for teachers, in the open.
6 pieces06A series on the adult skills — focus, rest, productive work — we never teach, and must model.
5 pieces
Set up this practical ChatGPT marking workflow before term starts: automate the repetition while keeping diagnosis, context and professional judgement with the teacher.
Claude Design turns a sentence into a polished, on-brand school resource. A teacher's walkthrough for Monday, with screenshots, the design-system move for department leaders, and the limits worth knowing first.
Two stories came out of China this month, eleven days apart. The largest open-weight model ever released, and a national plan to teach AI in every primary and secondary school by 2030. The classroom half deserves more of your attention than the model half.
A ten-minute diagnostic built from two years of conversations with heads, HoDs and IT leads. Your result is a private, shareable score — plus the one place to start.
Head of Digital Innovation and AI & 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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