


Telling AI what to do – what should we call it?
As we scramble to understand what generative AI tools mean for us, language to describe this new world is emerging. Common coinage is being created and I am nervous that it will be left to engineers again. I hope for…

A mess of contradictions
I want you to understand what I am trying to do when I do it, but I don’t trust you with my personal information. I want you to understand what I am trying to do when I am trying to…

Digital Learning Standards Forum: Meeting #2 update
This is a brief summary of what was a rich and constructive meeting. It was our second working session as a Forum, matching the first in energy, constructive debate and available expertise. There were many new faces with fresh contributions…

ChatGPT makes me feel predictable and ordinary. Maybe that’s the point?
My fingers hesitate over the keyboard in drafting this. Does the world need another lukewarm take on Chat GPT? Obviously not. And yet…here I am…adding to the well of, erm, wisdom. There is something that made me wonder about the…

Are task based skills in terminal decline?
So much of our work (my work, anyway) can be described as “what we do in front of a computer”. What happens when we can talk with that computer and ask it to conduct those tasks rather than do them…

What (some) brilliant minds say about learning
This post is an extract from my regular newsletter. You can sign up to receive it here. Recent weeks have been busy with getting the Digital Learning Standards Forum up and running. Starting something new is not to be taken…

The Digital Learning Standards Forum gets underway

Tired of Twitter
