Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Practical AI for Curriculum and Wellbeing Leaders: Waitlists Close Soon Hi everyone, The early bird waitlists for Practical AI for Curriculum Leaders and Wellbeing Leaders will close soon. Both courses offer a 6 week intensive, with one hour live per week, recordings and resources available async. The courses are open to Australian and international educators in all sectors: K-12, Higher Education, and Vocational Education. Early bird access is $1440...
8 days ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Practical AI for Curriculum and Wellbeing Leaders: Waitlists Filling Up Hi everyone, The Term 4 (Oct-Nov) waitlist for Practical AI for Curriculum leaders is filling up. This course is capped at 25 students to ensure a lively community and room for good conversations. It's 6 weeks, one hour live per week, with recordings and resources available async. The course is open to Australian and international educators in all sectors: K-12, Higher Education,...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Hi everyone, Before we get into this week's blog post, a reminder that the waitlists for the Term 4 live, six-week intensive courses are now open. Practical AI for Wellbeing Leaders https://leonfurze.com/wellbeing-leaders/: is a brand new course for wellbeing leaders, pastoral and year level coordinators, and school counsellors, covering the wellbeing risks of AI including youth mental health, social chatbots, and deepfakes. Practical AI for...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Practical AI for Curriculum and Wellbeing Leaders Term 4 waitlists are now open, including a brand new course. Hi everyone, Two six-week courses are running in Term 4 (October to November), both with an hour per week of live sessions plus recordings and resources. Practical AI for Curriculum Leaders https://leonfurze.com/curric-leaders/: AI for curriculum design and assessment, for faculty leaders, assistant principals, and curriculum designers across...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies What's the Cost of Getting it Wrong With AI? Hi everyone, Lately I've been writing a lot about "AI slop" and problems like hallucinations: all of which stem from the technical construction of language models. These aren't problems we can prompt ourselves away from: they're fundamental to the ways we use AI. And we can decide if, how, and when we use AI in our communications. In this week's article, I use two terms as a way to help make those...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Problem Patterns in AI: Beyond Hallucinations Hi everyone, There's a lot of hype right now around AI "escaping" and "going rogue", with both OpenAI and its main competitor Anthropic releasing big statements about security incidents. I'm not going to say much right now about these issues, other than fear-narratives are great for raising money... Security concerns are important, but I think that the "right now" harms of GenAI for most day-to-day users...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Practical AI Strategies 2 is off to the typesetters 🎉 Hi everyone, The final of draft of Practical AI Strategies 2 is back from the editor and off to typesetting. That puts us on track for publication in September! Building on the first book published in 2024, Practical AI Strategies 2 covers both the practical and the critical aspects of the technology in five parts: Using GenAI in Education; AI and Assessment; Critical AI Literacy; Beyond Chatbots;...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Hi everyone, First of all, thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s newsletter with their thoughts on “AI;DR” and the trust between readers and writers. I had so many responses that I’m planning a follow up article. It’s definitely a complex topic that a lot of you are interested in! LLMs are Digital Skeleton Keys For years now I’ve been exploring the capabilities of large language models like GPT and Claude. Over time, we’ve seen a shift away...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies AI; Didn't Read... Hi everyone, Every Saturday morning, I open up my MacBook after breakfast and write out these emails. If I planned ahead, I could probably write them on Thursday or Friday, but the week always seems to get away on me... Based on the newsletters and emails I'm subscribed to, an increasing number of people are using GenAI to write their weekly emails. I suppose it saves a little time, and maybe makes the planning and scheduling a...
2 months ago • 2 min read