Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies This week on the blog... Accessibility and Expertise Plus: Easter course discount ends soon Hi everyone, Two posts this week, both circling the same question: what actually reaches people when knowledge travels through a medium? The AI industry's implicit pitch is that the medium has finally become transparent. You put knowledge in one end and get it out the other, perfectly preserved, infinitely scalable. Both of these posts push back on that idea,...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies This week on the blog... A Taxonomy of Agentic AI Hi everyone, Happy Easter to those of you on a break. Term 1 has wrapped up here in Victoria, and I hope wherever you are in the world you get at least a few days to switch off. If you do find yourself with a bit of time over the holidays, this week's three articles might be worth a read with a coffee or two, because they cover a lot of ground: from the language of AI agents, to the hidden cost of...
17 days ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Practical AI Strategies How do we resist cognitive offload with AI? Hi everyone, Term 1 is wrapping up here in Victoria, and wherever you are in the world I hope a break is on the horizon, even a short one. If you do get some downtime, it might be a good chance to experiment with some of the GenAI applications you've been reading about in these emails. This week's two posts sit at opposite ends of the spectrum: one argues that sometimes the most important thing you can do is...
24 days ago • 1 min read
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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 2 min read