Leon Furze
@leonfurze.com
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PhD candidate and consultant working with and sometimes against AI in education. Leonfurze.com / practicalaistrategies.com
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Back in the glory days of bluesky (like, a few months ago when everyone signed up, remember?) I made a feed for AI in Education. It’s still up! bsky.app/profile/did:... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky
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dwayneripley.bsky.social
Clear articulation of the current situation. Being critical of educational technology doesn't mean you are anti-technology.
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Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #DigitalTech #DigitalTechnologies
Technology is Actually Pretty Great
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.
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Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #DigitalTech #DigitalTechnologies
Technology is Actually Pretty Great
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.
leonfurze.com
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The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here! #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
The AI Assessment Scale: New Peer Reviewed Paper
The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here!
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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 #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
How (not) to use the AIAS
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
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In this week’s newsletter: a new publication about the metaphor of GenAI as digital plastic.

Plus, last chance to sign up for free resources including a 45-min free webinar on assessment released to the list on Monday

Sign up here: mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co...

#artificialintelligence #aied
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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 #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
Digital Plastic as a framework for Critical AI Literacy
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.
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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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach
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.
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Time for the weekly. Sign up for updates from the blog, articles on GenAI in education, and a series of free resources published throughout July-August.

Linky: mailchi.mp/leonfurze/me...

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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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
Using Metaphors to Teach Critical AI Literacy
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.
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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. This post explores why and how. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education
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.
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I don’t really know anything about these people as an Australian, but I know from the structure that Whoeverheis Flynn’s post is entirely written by ChatGPT, for whatever that’s worth.
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Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying them
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nroshak.bsky.social
Wow, I'm really enjoying this collection of flash fic by @leonfurze.com about a post-AIpocalyptic future.

"Khai’s rust-red ute rattles past a sign
melted in last summer’s blaze: “Dubbo 311
km.” The riverbeds are chalk. Smoke from
an inland burn mixes with dust. The sky
tastes like ground pepper."
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A free collection of flash fic about digital technologies and education. These stories were originally published in June-August 2025 on LinkedIn. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #FlashFic #Writing #Writers
Flash Fic Friday: Volume 1
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.
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A free collection of flash fic about digital technologies and education. These stories were originally published in June-August 2025 on LinkedIn. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #FlashFic #Writing #Writers
Flash Fic Friday: Volume 1
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.
leonfurze.com
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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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEduclass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI
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.
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tirotg.bsky.social
Une récente lettre ouverte, lancée par des universitaires australiens et américains, appelant à la #résistance et au rejet de l' #intelligenceartificielle générative, a suscité de nombreuses discussions ces dernières semaines.
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#enseignants #EduSky
The Right to Resist
A recent open letter calling for educators and academics to resist AI has divided the education community. But we should be directing our anger at the right people, and not at one another.
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tirotg.bsky.social
Les #jeunes sont adaptables, compétents, curieux et capables, et nous avons besoin de discussions plus nuancées que des approches binaires inutiles sur la question de savoir si l' #IA favorise ou nuit à l' #apprentissage.
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About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI
Learning about, with, through, without, and against AI are all important for students and educators.
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You know, I don’t even know what the phrase “discover new science” means.
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That’s great!
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Throughout July and August I'm publishing free resources including 5 eBooks & a series of mini-PD:

1. 👇How to use ChatGPT
2. How to use Google Gemini
3. How to use Claude
4. How to use Copilot

mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
"Not quite as embarrassing as Altman’s Death Star post, Ethan Mollick’s breathless endorsement of GPT-5 -- 'GPT-5: It just does stuff' -- already looks like an ad for New Coke." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social

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GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.
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