Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies You Don't Need An AI Policy Hi everyone, By this point, most schools and universities fall into two camps: Those that have an AI policy, and those that want to write one and feel "left behind". I'm here to tell you that you don't need an AI policy. I've said this in a few sessions recently, from a full day workshop with vocational educators, to a room full of Primary leaders, and even outside of education in accounting and finance. It sometimes takes...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies What Curriculum Leaders Need to Know About GenAI Plus: Why you should be hoarding your knowledge Hi everyone, I’ve been working face-to-face this week in schools and at a meeting for the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA) I’ve had great conversations with school leaders, and one topic has come up again and again. Despite all the policy and governance conversations we need to have in schools about AI, teaching and learning is still...
18 days ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Expert Signals Hi everyone, For the past few years I've been writing about "expertise" and GenAI. These articles have covered the importance of educator expertise, as well as the ways students might develop their expertise with AI. To capture these ideas, I've written about technological expertise, domain expertise, and situated expertise. but it occurred to me recently that an important part was missing: the ways in which expertise is transmitted...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies My Lived Experience Using GenAI as an AuDHD Adult Plus: What happens to expertise when students skip the struggle? Hi everyone, Both articles this week deal with topics close to my heart: the use of GenAI by neurodivergent people, and the importance of "productive struggle" in learning. I've been using these technologies since early 2022 - before the release of ChatGPT. The way I interact with GenAI has shifted and changed over time. it has never...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies This week on the blog... Building Websites with Claude, and Letting the Robots in Plus: The Practical AI Library Hi everyone, The weekly newsletter is going out a few days late because we've had a house full of sick kids. Not sure about everyone else, but Term 1 is always a bit wild for us! But we're back into it, just in time for the chaos of weekend sports and birthday parties... Last weekend, I scored a few quiet hours where I could play around and...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies A Brand New Website for Teaching AI Ethics Plus: What is MCP, and why should you care? Hi everyone, For the past couple of weeks, I've been experimenting a lot with Claude Cowork and Claude Code. If you're not familiar, these are applications designed to make working with the Claude AI model more useful in a variety of contexts. Cowork is a feature in the Claude Desktop app (formerly MacOS only, but they just released a Windows version). It lets you...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies Teaching AI Ethics: Power and the AI Resistance Hi everyone, Two new articles on the blog this week, and both are a bit heavier than usual. I think that's okay. One of my goals for this year was to get back to writing about the bigger picture of AI: the stuff behind the products, the marketing, and the hype. Teaching AI Ethics 2026: Power The first is a 2026 update to my Teaching AI Ethics series: specifically, the article on Power. The original was...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies The GenAI companies designing chatbots to mess with your emotions Hi everyone, I've spent the last couple of weeks visiting schools as we kick off Term 1 here in Australia, and it's safe to say we are now past the point of "what is AI and how does it work?" and well into "what's coming next?" A lot of my conversations were around the more technical aspects of GenAI, including "agentic" browsers, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and semi-autonomous swarms...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies This week on the blog... Can You Spot an AI Generated Image? Plus: Teaching AI Ethics 2026: Human Labour Hi everyone, It's the time of the year when Australian schools head back for staff days, and things really start to gear up for Term 1. I've just been up in Brisbane with Grace Lutheran College, and we had a great day across two campuses exploring GenAI and assessment. I've had conversations with teachers over the past week about the best ways to...
2 months ago • 1 min read