Leon Furze

PhD candidate and consultant working with AI in education. https://leonfurze.com/ai-reads/ for my RSS feed. https://leonfurze.com/blog for the… blog.

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2025-08-27 21:36:17 GMT

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 #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/28/using-metaphors-to-teach-critical-ai-literacy/

2025-08-24 22:00:30 GMT

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 #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/25/artificial-intelligence-in-vocational-education/

2025-08-15 00:45:32 GMT

Leon 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 flowing back to the blog), and then syndicates to Substack and Medium via RSS and import. #artificialintelligence #aieducation
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/15/publish-on-your-own-site-syndicate-elsewhere-2/

2025-08-10 22:00:15 GMT

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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/11/open-source-ai-is-going-mainstream/

2025-08-08 01:52:39 GMT

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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/08/first-impressions-of-gpt-5/

2025-08-04 21:00:30 GMT

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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #Free
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/05/free-pd-video-how-to-use-chatgpt/

2025-08-01 00:40:30 GMT

New podcast ep.! 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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/08/01/the-narrow-web-2/

2025-07-30 22:00:15 GMT

OpenAI's recent partnership with Instructure's Canvas Learning Management System furthers its aggressive entry into education. While claiming to support students and teachers, it's part of a bigger plan to influence education from policy level down to the clasroom #artificialintelligence #aied
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/31/openai-has-come-for-education/

2025-07-29 23:23:17 GMT

ChatGPT has released its new 'Study Mode'. What is it, and will it actually help students to learn? Or is it simply a way for OpenAI to reclaim territory from third party edtech? #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/30/first-impressions-of-chatgpts-study-mode/

2025-07-28 07:43:45 GMT

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. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/01/the-right-to-resist/

2025-07-20 21:00:38 GMT

This post distills everything I've learned so far from testing OpenAI's Agents, including all available tools and code functions. It includes a 20 minute walkthrough video of a range of tasks. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/21/everything-ive-learned-so-far-about-openais-agents/

2025-07-19 00:07:06 GMT

Don't fall for the hype. Despite what you've seen on social media, OpenAI's Agents don't work yet. Here are my initial impressions. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/19/initial-impressions-of-openais-agents-unfinished-unsuccessful-and-unsafe/

2025-07-10 04:14:11 GMT

Lesson planning is a process, an action, a verb. But technology companies, from big players like Microsoft and Google to new kids on the block like Magic School, insist on treating it as a noun, a thing, a product. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/10/lesson-planning-is-a-verb-why-does-tech-keep-treating-it-as-a-noun/

2025-07-09 08:48:35 GMT

In this episode: Leon Furze sets aside the chatbot hype to show how the underlying components of AI—image recognition, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and transformer language models—already power a growing suite of assistive technologies. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #podcast
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/09/artificial-intelligence-and-assistive-technologies-a-practical-guide-2/

2025-07-07 05:30:23 GMT

New resources on AI and deepfakes. On this new page on my site you'll find examples, a 'real or fake' game, and a free 20+ page PDF about deepfakes and AI media https://leonfurze.com/deepfakes/ #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Deepfakes #ImageGen #AIImages

2025-07-06 22:30:18 GMT

In this article I suggest some alternative areas we could look for improvements, using AI in ways that support human, relational practices in schools.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #TeacherWorkload #Workload
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/07/beyond-time-saving-how-genai-might-actually-help-teacher-workload/

2025-07-05 05:43:35 GMT

New podcast ep.! Responding to newspaper calls for tighter controls on generative-AI in senior-school “take-home” tasks, Leon Furze argues that the real culprit is the assessment format itself, not ChatGPT. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/05/take-home-assessments-ai-is-not-the-problem-2/

2025-06-27 01:16:06 GMT

Is GenAI a magical, miraculous substance that "democratises creativity"? Or is it just graceless slop? Developing Critical AI Literacy means interrogating the design of AI systems. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/27/digital-plastic-miraculous-substance-or-graceless-slop/

2025-06-25 02:00:14 GMT

New blog post: Process > Prompts. A lot has changed with GenAI in the past few years, and we don't need to be "prompt engineers" to get the most out of the tech. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/25/process-prompts/

2025-06-22 10:54:08 GMT

The weekly newsletter keeps on growing and improving! Check it out and subscribe here for up to date info on AI in education https://mailchi.mp/leonfurze.com/genai-and-assistive-technologies #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #newsletter #mailinglist
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2025-06-07 02:49:12 GMT

Join the newsletter for weekly updates from the blog. This week: writing, truth, and launching a new podcast: https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=0e4244172472af8210b990aa9&id=28720737a3
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #ai

2025-06-05 09:51:47 GMT

https://www.noemamag.com/ai-signals-the-death-of-the-author/?utm_source=noematwitter&utm_medium=noemasocial #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #aiwriting

2025-06-04 02:09:48 GMT

Teaching AI Ethics 2025: Truth.
The third post in the series reflects on what has changed (and what hasn't) in two years of AI and "truth", plus some thoughts on what truth means in education.
The whole series of CC articles includes teaching ideas across disciplines.
#AIEthics #AI #AIEd
https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/04/teaching-ai-ethics-2025-truth/

2025-06-01 09:56:48 GMT

"Let the English teachers who love English, teach English. Let the mathematics teachers who love math, teach math. Let the science teachers teach science. And where appropriate, bring these technologies in." teachinginhighered.com/podcast/myth... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd

2025-06-01 03:15:02 GMT

Sunday baking. 50/50 wholemeal spelt/rye sourdough ciabatta. No knead, overnight ferment. #baking #sunday #sourdough
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2025-05-31 23:00:16 GMT

Why do I insist on publishing my own blog?
I've had a blog in one form or another for 15 years, and it will always be my central platform for writing.
In this post explore why I like owning my own little plot of land online, and how AI now fits into the mix.
#artificialintelligence #aieducation
https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/01/why-blog/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social