Leon Furze
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AI and the Techlash
There’s a groundswell of negative public sentiment towards digital technologies at the moment, and AI is part of it. In this article I’ll look at where GenAI sits in the current techlash, and suggest that the real target of the techlash isn’t the technology at all; it’s the system that produced it.
Students hate AI, and they can’t stop using it
The booing kicked off before Gloria Caulfield could finish her sentence. At the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities graduation on May 8th, real estate exec Caulfield told the graduating class that “the rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” One student yelled, “AI sucks”, and the crowd erupted. Caulfield…
Beyond Scales – In Practice
This is one half of a pair of articles dealing with the theory and the practice of moving “beyond scales” in AI and education. The two posts together demonstrate how our thoughts have developed since 2023, and the examples from practitioners around the world of work which has gone beyond the original AI Assessment Scale.…
Beyond Scales – In Theory
This is one half of a pair of articles dealing with the theory and the practice of moving “beyond scales” in AI and education. The two posts together demonstrate how our thoughts have developed since 2023, and the examples from practitioners around the world of work which has gone beyond the original AI Assessment Scale.…
What Can AI Actually Do? Share Your Examples
This fifth post in the IYKYK series is a call to action. In order to “lift the ceiling” on teachers’ mental models of what AI can do, we need to share as many examples as possible. And not just the obvious examples, but the weird, awkward, slightly broken examples of people pushing and poking at…
PhD Retrospective Part 2: Finishing the Journey
This is part two of a long read reflecting on my PhD journey, which began just before the release of ChatGPT in 2022. The articles look at the ways in which AI technologies, and our attitudes towards them, have shifted and changed in the past four years.
PhD Retrospective: Three Years of GenAI in Education
This is part one of a long read reflecting on my PhD journey, which began just before the release of ChatGPT in 2022. The articles look at the ways in which GenAI technologies, and our attitudes towards them, have shifted and changed in the past four years.
IYKYK Part 4: From Knowing to Doing
So far in this series I’ve argued that GenAI has a discoverability problem, shared some examples that broke my own mental model, and explored how access and equity shape who gets to discover what. In this post I’ll talk about what happens after discovery, because knowing that a capability exists and being able to use…