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...
11 days 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...
20 days 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...
27 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
leonfurze.com GenAI in Education This week on the blog... kicking off 2026 with a guide for educators Hi everyone, Welcome back for the first newsletter of 2026. If you've been here for a while you might notice a few (small) differences. I've moved from Mailchimp to Kit and am testing out the new platform - let me know if anything doesn't work! Part of the reason I've shifted is that the mailing list grew a lot in 2025, and I want to really make the most of this community in 2026 as I...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read