In our new commentary for the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, we explore everything we have learned after two years of working on the AI Assessment Scale AIAS The post How (not) to use the AIAS appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
The concept of "digital plastic" in generative AI highlights its characteristics: cheap, malleable, ubiquitous, and persistent. This framework promotes critical AI literacy through classroom strategies, encouraging purposeful use, awareness of implications, and fostering critical judgement in synthetic media creation.| Leon Furze
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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
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
GPT-5 has been released - but does it live up to the hype? In this article, I'm going to run through some of the key moments from the launch and compare it to my initial experience using the upgraded AI. I have also made a video demonstrating the updated capabilities, and showing the differences between the free and paid models.| Leon Furze
At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone’s hands. For this purpose, we have consistently advocated for openness in AI, with a unique focus on empowering organizations that want to own their AI future. | mistral.ai
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.| ETH Zurich
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