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What should an AI school demonstrate? A proposed student-day map links study, practical work and the next session, with teacher help available at each stage.

School Leadership

What should an AI school demonstrate?

Alex Gray4 min · 13 Oct

Three timelines of very different lengths labelled product, evidence and policy, under the title Nobody is keeping up

School Leadership

Nobody is keeping up

Alex Gray7 min · 1 Oct

A chart showing homework scores up eighteen per cent and homework time down thirty per cent after students adopted generative AI, while monthly exam scores fell twenty per cent and entrance exam scores fell eighteen and twenty-four per cent

Where the homework time went

Alex Gray5 min · 29 Sept

Is AI literacy a reading problem? A diagram showing three steps: read the claim, debate evidence and bias, and explain your judgement.

AI in Education

Is AI literacy a reading problem?

Alex Gray5 min · 15 Sept

A Teen Mode switch is on, surrounded by four unresolved checks for homework bypasses, age prediction, alert speed and emotional dependence

AI in Education

ChatGPT for Teens Still Needs Testing

Alex Gray5 min · 27 Aug

A teaching workflow moving from the scheme of work through planning, teacher approval, delivery, reviewed evidence and the next teaching move

AI in Education

What an AI Teaching Workflow Looks Like

Alex Gray7 min · 24 Aug

A provenance map showing funders connected to an AI curriculum, with a school review lens examining the relationship

AI in Education

Who Paid for Your AI Curriculum?

Alex Gray6 min · 21 Aug

An AI agent's route stops at a human approval gate before reaching school systems

AI in Education

What can your school's AI agent reach?

Alex Gray7 min · 13 Aug

Educational Technology

Claude Design: A Teacher's Walkthrough

Alex Gray13 min · 6 Aug

Two halves of one story: an open-weight AI model anyone can download, and a school curriculum built as three rising steps with a fourth left empty because there is no exam

AI in Education

What is China Teaching Its Kids?

Alex Gray6 min · 30 Jul

AI in Education

The AI Did Not Rebel. It Followed the Goal.

Alex Gray9 min · 23 Jul

Mechanical teaching tasks like planning and marking fade as AI absorbs them, while the human core of teaching — judgement, relationship and synthesis — is illuminated and concentrated

AI in Education

The Teacher's Job Did Not Shrink. It Moved.

Alex Gray7 min · 12 Jun

Why the debate in schools has moved on from whether students should use AI to whether they are rethinking with it or escaping the work of thinking through it

AI in Education

The Question Has Changed: From Policing AI to Rethinking With It

Alex Gray8 min · 8 Jun

Why model-independent processes — framing, verification, placement, evaluation — outlast the release cycle in a school's AI strategy

Train for Processes, Not Models: Why AI Strategies Break

Alex Gray8 min · 3 Jun

Why pastoral leadership, not policy or tech stack, is the strategic centre of a school's AI response

School Leadership

The Pastoral Side of AI: Human Connection as EdTech Strategy

Alex Gray11 min · 29 May

Why AI literacy belongs across the whole school — not just the computing department — and what schools lose by treating it as a tech ticket

AI Is Not an IT Problem: Why Schools Can't Hand It to the Computing Team

Alex Gray9 min · 26 May

When AI fixed the three-legged table: on creative fidelity, AI tool selection, and what is being lost in creative education

AI in Education

When AI Fixed the Three-Legged Table: Why That's a Problem for Education

Alex Gray10 min · 19 Apr

Students are turning to AI for emotional support — on safeguarding, student wellbeing, and the conversations schools are not having

AI in Education

AI Is Not Just a Classroom Tool. For Many Students, It Has Become the Place They Go When They Have Nowhere Else to Turn.

Alex Gray8 min · 15 Apr

Why the first page of your AI policy might be the only one that matters — on cognitive load, teacher ownership, and policy that actually changes practice

AI in Education

Why the First Page of Your AI Policy Might Be the Only One That Matters

Alex Gray9 min · 13 Apr

Students already know when you've used AI to plan their lesson — on transparency, trust, and the student-teacher relationship

AI in Education

Students Already Know When You've Used AI to Plan Their Lesson. And They Resent It.

Alex Gray7 min · 11 Apr

Three AI Education Conversations You Need to Hear This Week

AI in Education

Three AI Education Conversations You Need to Hear This Week

Alex Gray4 min · 3 Apr

Illustration comparing a stack of EdTech subscription logos against a single API key, representing the shift from wrapper products to direct AI access in schools

Educational Technology

Why Smart Schools Are Ditching EdTech Subscriptions and Buying an API Key Instead

Alex Gray7 min · 17 Mar

Teacher AI Competency vs. Student AI Literacy — What Comes First?

Professional Development

Teacher AI Competency vs. Student AI Literacy: What Comes First?

Alex Gray10 min · 6 Mar

What 33 International Frameworks Say About AI in Schools — And what most schools are missing

What 33 International Frameworks Say About AI in Schools

Alex Gray14 min · 4 Mar

Is Your School AI-Ready? The 9 Questions Every Headteacher Must Be Able to Answer

Is Your School AI-Ready? The 9 Questions Every Headteacher Must Be Able to Answer

Alex Gray10 min · 2 Mar