Leon Furze

@leonfurze

PhD candidate and consultant working with and sometimes against AI in education. Leonfurze.com / practicalaistrategies.com

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Leon Furze@leonfurze· 19d

Heads up. Practical AI Strategies 2 has just gone off to the typesetters 🎉 It’s the colour of a perfectly ripe banana so you know how to find it when it comes out in a few months. Join the mailing list for updates: subscribe.leonfurze.com #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu

Front colour of Practical AI Strategies 2: The Critical Guide to GenAI in Education. Yellow book on a light purple background.

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Apr 20

How do we bring shadow AI use in schools out of the dark? This post explores the toolkit and recommendations of the new VINE guidelines for GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence… https://leonfurze.com/2026/04/20/shadow-ai-bringing-covert-ai-use-out-of-the-dark/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Mar 28

So. What are you waiting for? Go and join the list already and stay up to date. Clicky linky: leon-furze.kit.com/pais2 #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky #artificialintelligence #practicalaistrategies

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Mar 22

Oi, so I made a thing. It's a simple close reading annotation tool that works by encoding all the data into the URL. No cloud, no logins, no permissions. Just copy/paste/annotate/share. Give it a whirl @ readcloser.com and lmk what you think #english #writing #education

screenshot of the read/closer app showing annotated text fro the novel pride and prejudice

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jan 22

Lava lamps real and imaginary. Everybody just calm the f—- down. #thursday #earlyweekend #homeoffice #lavalamp

A home office desk with multicoloured led lights and lava lamp videos playing on multiple screens

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jan 18

Ready to crank up for 2026. Been telling myself I’m #BackToWork for a week or two so I guess I’ll open the laptop and stop arranging the lights. #Desk #WFH

Photograph of a desk with ambient blue and green lighting. A MacBook covered in stickers on a laptop stand with a keyboard, microphone, trackpad and open notebook on the desk.

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Dec 8

Climbed into an Uber. Had a hunch about the music. Used Shazam. Identified AI generated blues. Reached peak algorithm. 🫠 #Uber #Algorithm #Music #Algorithm #AIGenerated #SlopBlues

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Sep 20

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

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Aug 30

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... #artificialintelligence #aieducation

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Aug 12

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

screenshot of an email showing the details of free resources and mini-PD videos

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Aug 1

Time for the weekly! Join over 10,000 educators for a weekly digest from the blog, plus articles and resources to support balanced conversations about the practical and ethical concerns of genAI in education #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #EduSky mailchi.mp/leonfurze/op...

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 31

Felix has claimed the throne #cats #catsofbluesky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 26

Google veo3 is just… really weird. Maybe don’t put in a selfie and the prompt: Delete frame one. Jump cut on every second frame starting with frame one. Hylerlapse through increasingly cyberpunk scenario as the man starts to scream into the void. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 20

Recently I’ve been sharing lots of free resources as I gear up for my 2025 courses. Tomorrow’s is the Teaching AI Ethics ebook. You can sign up here and grab them all: mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 14

Free resource number three: Rethinking Assessment for GenAI 2025. A 200 page ebook curated from my 2023-2025 posts on GenAI and assessment. Get it here: mailchi.mp/leonfurze/as... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

From cover of ebook Rethinking Assessment for Generative Artificial Intelligence 2025 by Leon Furze. Abstract shapes as artwork.

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 13

Did I learn that Milligram was doing a make your own Kaweco pen thing and drag my kids half way across town just to make me a pen? Yes. Yes I did. No regrets. 🖊️ #FP #kaweco #writer #FPSunday

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 9

I think I have reached peak desk. #DesksOfBluesky #LED #Desky

Photo of a desk. A walnut sit stand desk in the sitting position with an iMac on a riser and a MacBook Pro on a stand. The desk is backlit by blue LED lights. The wall behind the desk has two paintings and an Indonesian hanuman mask.

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 6

Resource number 2: How to spot a deepfake mailchi.mp/leonfurze/de...

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 4

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... Full piece in the image 👇 #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #EduSky #FlashFicFriday

Screenshot of flashfic. text reads: 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.

The university sent coordinates for an invigilated exam centre. No online option since SynthID breaches spiked and the online proctoring system fell to pieces. “Presence ensures integrity.”

Integrity, Khai thinks, doesn’t pay for diesel or filters for his inhaler.

Two days later, eyes gritty, he reaches the prefab hall. An invigilator scans his irises as Khai grips the silver ball that confirms his humanity in a 256-bit encrypted hash. The proctor checks his bag and pats him down for AI wearables, gestures toward a plastic booth.

Ten other students sit hunched, each with a bottle of rationed water and a silent dread that the algorithmic detector will still cast its doubt.

Khai writes fast. Outside, wind thumps the wall with ash. He finishes early, signs the honour declaration, and begins the long drive home, where the fires keep moving and the degree he’s chasing may arrive too late to matter.

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Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jul 2

New course coming soon! Sign up here to stay up to date, receive free resources, and get a discount on launch in Term 3 #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co...

Overlapping pages from the free PDF resource 'getting the most out of multimodal genAI'

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 28

Be more like a bee 🐝. LLMs aren’t creative, but we are. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 27

Check out this week's newsletter for advice on moving beyond "prompt engineering", the threat of Digital Plastic, and an exclusive new community for school principals. mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co... #artificialintelligence #aieducation

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 22

The weekly newsletter keeps on growing and improving! Check it out and subscribe here for up to date info on AI in education mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky #newsletter #mailinglist

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 17

Google Veo3 is amazing for breaking online oral assessments about Jane Austen 🎉 #deepfake #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 16

RSS is 💯 still a thing. Check out this new feed of articles related to #AI and #education. Updated regualrly with whatever catches my 👁️ leonfurze.com/ai-reads/ #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 15

About once every 12 months I update my website (I like to pretend that I still know how to write HTML and stuff, like when I was 14...). Check out the latest zingy freshness at leonfurze.com #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky #Website leonfurze.com

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 15

In Meta’s privacy shitfest of an AI app, you have to use this kinda-double-negative to opt OUT of all your prompts being available to the public feed. Don’t not share my not prompts please. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 14

Come and chuck us a follow on the newsletter! Almost at 10,000 subs for the weekly update: mailchi.mp/leonfurze.co... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 13

I've written before about the need to balance domain and technological expertise to work with AI but something has been missing. In this post, I explore situated expertise: the reflexive, contextual capacity to apply and… https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/13/three-dimensions-of-expertise-for-ai/

Leon Furze@leonfurze· Jun 8

Teaching AI Ethics is getting a new site. CC BY NC SA resources for educators talking about AI. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky #AIEthics