Flash Fic Friday: Volume 1| 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. The post Open Source AI is Going Mainstream appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
Leon Furze argues that the real tension with AI and writing isn’t “death of writing” but purpose. When schools prize the product over the process, generative AI flattens the whole writing cycle, letting students jump from “I need a piece” straight to publication. That shortcut may be fine for functional emails or content farms, but in education the process is the learning; flatten it, and you flatten learning too. The post AI in the Writing Process: A Problem of Purpose appeared fir...| 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
OpenAI Has Come for Education| 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. The post Free PD Video: How to Use ChatGPT appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
Leon Furze contrasts Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 vision of an open, decentralised World Wide Web with the “Narrow Web” of 2025—an internet funnelled through half-a-dozen corporate platforms that monetise surveillance, lock users into walled gardens and invert the original principles of universality and non-discrimination. The post The Narrow Web appeared first on Leon Furze.| 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. The post OpenAI Has Come for Education appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
With growing dissatisfaction about the state of the internet, I spent a few months in 2025 digging into things like the fediverse (Mastodon etc.), self-hosting, and other ways of reclaiming the internet from companies like Google. On my travels, I came across the term POSSE, which stands for Publish (on your) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere. Here's how it applies to my writing.| Leon Furze
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web at CERN, establishing principles like decentralisation, non-discrimination, and universality. However, by 2025, the internet has devolved into a “Narrow Web,” dominated by major platforms, characterised by centralisation and discrimination. To reclaim the open web, users should prioritise independent websites and open-source solutions.| Leon Furze
“Time Saved” is the Wrong Measurement for Teacher Workload and AI| Leon Furze
AI is more than just ChatGPT. Hype around chatbots is distracting us from the really useful technologies which could change lives. In this article, I explore how LLM-based tech and other AI are being used as assistive technologies.| Leon Furze
In a recent online lunch & learn for the Copyright Agency, I presented on the rapid advances in multimodal generative AI, including audio, video, code, and virtual reality applications. While these technologies offer exciting possibilities for creativity and innovation, they also raise serious concerns about copyright infringement and the potential harm to both consumers and […]| Leon Furze
The term multimodal generative intelligence is getting thrown around a lot recently – even more so now that the most popular models like GPT have added features like image recognition and generation. But what does ‘multimodal’ actually mean? What is “Multimodal”? Although the term “multimodal” might seem self-explanatory, there’s more to it than you might […]| Leon Furze
This post is part of a series exploring multimodal generative AI (GAI) technologies from text, to image, to audio and video generation. Check out some of the other posts in this series: DALL-E in ChatGPT: The basics If you’re using ChatGPT with a Plus subscription I’m going to assume that you’re fairly familiar with image […]| Leon Furze
Generative AI is a multimodal technology, with applications in text, image, video, audio, and code. Unfortunately, up until now, the actual usefulness of GAI in schools has been limited by technical and practical barriers. ChatGPT, for example, is easy to access but problematic in the classroom due to its obscure terms and conditions and dubious […]| Leon Furze
AI and the Death of Communication| Leon Furze
This first instalment in the Teaching AI Ethics 2025 series revisits the theme of bias in generative AI. It explains how data bias, model bias and human bias interact to produce skewed or discriminatory outputs in large-language and image-generation systems, illustrates those problems with up-to-date research and examples, critiques the limitations of current “guard-rail” fixes, and closes with practical ways teachers can embed critical discussions of AI bias across English, Mathematics, ...| 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
This article, part of a series updating "Teaching AI Ethics," explores the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI. It emphasizes the need for transparency in AI's energy usage, highlights the resource-intensive nature of training and using AI models, and prompts educational discussions on sustainable technology practices.| Leon Furze
This post initiates a nine-article series revisiting the "Teaching AI Ethics" resources from 2023 exploring bias in GenAI.| Leon Furze
Over the next few months, I’ll be updating my 2023 Teaching AI Ethics collection. In this post, I’ll explain why the updates are necessary and give a recap on the nine original areas from the series. When I wrote the original series in 2023, ChatGPT was only just on people’s radars. I had started my […]| Leon Furze
OpenAI's recent updates to DALL-E 3 aim to enhance its image generation capabilities, but the focus on relaxing restrictions for "offensive" content raises concerns. The integration of more violent and explicit imagery could contribute to misinformation, and doesn't contribute to the future of the technology.| Leon Furze
