Back when OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the tail end of 2022, it was introduced as a conversational interface fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series. Teachers, being teachers, quickly took to it as a means to help, mostly at that point with things like lesson plans, adaptive resources and…
Last week I said I’d say more on the day. Today is the day. When I started this six weeks ago, I wasn’t sure how it would go. The idea was simple enough: take the areas of teaching and learning that matter most, retrieval, formative assessment, feedback, questioning, explanations and…
If someone asked you, right now, what AI is doing for education, what would you say? I’d put money on at least one of these: saving teacher time, reducing workload, improving outcomes. These things get repeated so often wherever I look, it’s like they have become the manuscript for every…
I’ve been developing the Periodic Table of Canva in Education for quite a while now, but with the brilliant work we do at NetSupport, BETT, the launch and work around the Digital Strategy Guide, headteacher conferences, supporting my school and trust clients, you name it – it’s taken some time! Here…
Want to know your MCP from your RAG to your LLM, ML, NLP and CLT? If not, you need the 2026 AI Almanac for Educators. AI and EdTech are at the forefront of thinking in most schools now. It shapes how we teach, lead, safeguard and operate, yet the language…
So here we are, day 24, the final day of the 2025 #24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar. Where did that time go?! And as the door swings open, I wanted to focus as I’ve done every year on the calendar, it’s not a tool, app or technology I want to focus on,…
Today’s a bit different. On this, the penultimate day of the 2025 24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar, I wanted to, instead of highlighting a tool, share five brilliant people you should be following as we move into 2026. These are educators and innovators who consistently deliver value, challenge thinking, and most importantly,…
As we move into the final stretch of this year’s Appvent Calendar, I wanted to do something slightly different. Today’s tool has been chosen by Dougie, my son, and his reasoning for picking it is refreshingly simple and deeply telling. It helps make lessons more engaging. Writing lyrics helps others,…
Most educators juggle a dozen different tools daily. One for creating presentations, another for editing images, a third for removing backgrounds, something else for generating worksheets. Add in the copyright minefield of finding classroom-appropriate images and you’ve lost hours before you’ve even started teaching. Then there’s the accessibility challenge –…
As is the case each year, whilst I call this the ‘Appvent’ calendar, I don’t always follow the rules and share an app. As would be the case, the disruptor that he is, today’s guest contributor, Al Kingsley, has kept the tradition of doing things a bit differently, and so…
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