Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education - Leon Furze
The Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector is the ideal place for experimentation with GenAI, both for educators and for small to medium enterprise owners.| Leon Furze
I recently asked a group of around 3000 educators from my mailing list what they’d like to learn about GenAI. I’m incredibly lucky to have feet in a couple of camps as both an early career researcher and a consultant/author. It means I have access to the training and skills for working with lots of […] The post What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI? appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
PD for GenAI isn't a "one and done" event - it needs to fit with teachers' existing disciplinary expertise and their deep, contextual understanding of what it means to teach. The post Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
What is Critical AI Literacy, and how might metaphors be used to teach it? We explore these questions in a new Open Access article in JIME. The post Using Metaphors to Teach Critical AI Literacy appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
The Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector is the ideal place for experimentation with GenAI, both for educators and for small to medium enterprise owners.| Leon Furze
These stories were originally published in June-August 2025 on LinkedIn, a platform which is, frankly, best suited to marketing experts telling other marketers how to market. For some reason I thought it would be funny to start posting flash fic about the future of AI, digital technologies, and education on the world’s best B2B Marketing platform. The post Flash Fic Friday: Volume 1 appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
These 5 Principles for rethinking assessment were important before GenAI, but now they're even more relevant. In this article, I explore why validity, authenticity, transparency and trust are key to assessment. The post Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
SynopsisLeon Furze lays out his practical workflow for POSSE—Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere—so your website remains the hub and platforms are just spokes. He explains how he posts first on WordPress, lets Jetpack push to Bluesky (and occasionally LinkedIn), uses the ActivityPub plugin to make his site part of the fediverse (with comments […] The post Publish (on your) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
Learning about, with, through, without, and against AI are all important for students and educators. The post About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
A few interesting things are happening around open source artificial intelligence, and even if you haven't been paying much attention to generative AI beyond the big name brands like ChatGPT, I think this is something that you should take a look at.| Leon Furze
I'm Leon Furze, and in this free PD video, I walk through the features of both the free and paid versions of ChatGPT. From Study Mode to Deep Research, I explain how educators can get the most from the tool. Subscribe for more videos throughout August.| Leon Furze
OpenAI's recent partnership with Instructure's Canvas Learning Management System furthers its aggressive entry into education. While claiming to support students and teachers, I'm worried about the effectiveness of its tools like study mode and Agents, which fail to remotely address pedagogical needs. OpenAI has come for education, and I think we should be concerned.| Leon Furze
In this post, I run through the end-to-end workflow that now underpins almost all of my writing. I show how analogue note-taking (pocket notebooks, fountain pens) and spoken drafting (iPhone Voice Memos → Otter/Whisper transcription) feed into successive passes through Claude for clean-up, ChatGPT o3 for link-insertion and live research, and finally a quick HTML export for one-paste publishing in WordPress. Along the way I weigh the productivity gains against the environmental, ethical and ...| Leon Furze
