LGR22 Mathematics: A Five-Tool AI Playbook
February 16, 2026
Mathematics under LGR22 demands visible method, clear reasoning and manageable progression from E to A. This guide shows how Swedish teachers can build that work with five directly useful Automated Education tools: Word Problems, Quiz Generator, Excel Guru, Concept Explainer and Difficulty Adjuster. The emphasis is practical and product-led: better word problems, clearer method explanations, sharper misconception checks, stronger differentiation and faster data-handling routines you can use next week.
Valentine’s Day AI Poetry Critique
February 13, 2026
Valentine’s Day can be more than a quick poetry prompt or a novelty AI sonnet. This lesson sequence invites pupils to compare AI-generated love poems written in different literary eras, then test them for voice, imagery, form and historical plausibility. From there, they revise weak lines into sharper human-authored versions and turn discussion into assessed literary analysis. The result is a creative, rigorous English lesson that builds critical reading, writing craft and thoughtful AI literacy at the same time.
Gemini 3 Deep Think in Sixth-Form Science
February 12, 2026
Gemini 3 Deep Think looks promising for sixth-form science, but its real value appears when it is used as a thinking partner rather than an answer machine. This evaluation explores how it handles A-level and IB exam-style questions, as well as EPQ-style research prompts, with a focus on explanation quality, hypothesis building, source trails, and error-checking. The goal is practical: to identify where it saves time, where it misleads, and how teachers can help students use it without weakening independent thought.
Perplexity AI Model Council in the Classroom
February 6, 2026
Perplexity AI Model Council can become more than a novelty in school. Used well, it offers a structured way for pupils to compare how different models answer the same prompt and to discuss evidence, confidence, bias, omissions and persuasive style. This shifts classroom conversation away from “which AI is best?” and towards media literacy, judgement and source checking. In this article, you will find a practical lesson structure, a pupil-friendly comparison scorecard, subject-ready prompt ideas, discussion routines and sensible safeguards for teacher-led use.
Claude Opus 4.6 for half-term planning
February 5, 2026
Claude Opus 4.6 arrives with stronger workflow support, and that matters most when the test is practical rather than promotional. In this article, we put it to work on a demanding school task: building a half-term scheme of work through agent teams, then exporting the result into PowerPoint for real staff use. The focus is not on flashy outputs, but on teacher-ready quality: sequence, lesson coherence, curriculum fit, edit load and presentation readiness. The result is promising, but only in the right conditions.
AI Revision Strategies for Mock Season
January 28, 2026
Mock season often brings a rush of revision resources, but effective preparation needs more than quick AI-generated quizzes. This article outlines a practical workflow that uses AI to analyse past performance, identify knowledge gaps, build interleaved practice, and schedule spaced retrieval in ways pupils can actually sustain. It also shows how teachers can keep revision honest, safe, and evidence-led by checking outputs, protecting data, and preventing answer outsourcing or over-reliance on the tool.
Open Source After Vibe Coding
January 27, 2026
A new wave of discussion around the “Vibe Coding Kills Open Source” paper raises a practical question for schools: how should leaders judge the health of open-source software when AI-assisted coding is now common? This briefing looks beyond the licence label to the issues that matter in education, including reliability, maintainability, security and supplier transparency. It offers a practical checklist for procurement teams, IT leads and computing staff who need to evaluate tools used by pupils, teachers and administrators without abandoning the benefits of open source.
Anthropic’s AI Constitution: School Lessons
January 21, 2026
Anthropic’s expanded 23,000-word AI Constitution offers schools a useful case study in how AI safety frameworks become more detailed over time. The value for school leaders is not in copying a vendor document, but in noticing what gets made explicit: new harm categories, clearer boundary rules, and sharper decisions about when a system should refuse, redirect, or escalate. This article explores what that evolution can teach schools about AI policy, acceptable-use clauses, and safeguarding guidance, and provides a practical way to turn broad vendor language into school-ready rules.
ChatGPT Adverts and School AI Risk
January 19, 2026
ChatGPT’s move towards adverts is more than a product update. For school leaders, it is a warning that the long period of seemingly free, stable consumer AI may be ending. If staff workflows now depend on free-tier tools, monetisation changes can quickly affect access, reliability, privacy expectations and trust. This briefing explains why UK and Swedish schools should shift core routines off consumer free tiers, how to identify the most exposed workflows, and what procurement, policy and contingency steps to take this term.
Sweden’s 1–10 Grading Scale: Use These AI Tools Now
January 16, 2026
Sweden’s proposed 1–10 grading scale has created understandable uncertainty, but teachers do not need to wait for final reform details before improving assessment routines. This article shows how Answer Key, Concept Explainer, Quiz Generator and Summariser can be used right now in ways that are grading-system-agnostic. The central message is practical: use these tools for clearer descriptors, sharper feedback, stronger retrieval and faster departmental communication today, then swap in final 1–10 wording later when policy is settled.
Vibe Coding and Computing Curricula
January 13, 2026
If leading software engineers are using AI to generate, inspect and refine code, school Computing needs a measured response rather than panic. GCSE and A-Level courses should not drop programming, because fluency still matters. But they do need to place more weight on reading code, tracing logic, debugging faults, verifying outputs and judging AI-generated solutions. This article explores what professional practice is changing, what remains constant, and how departments can update schemes of work, homework and assessment so students are prepared for a world where writing code is only one part of the job.
Claude Cowork for Non-Technical School Staff
January 12, 2026
Claude Cowork offers a more approachable way for non-technical school staff to use AI in daily operations without needing code, scripts or specialist setup. For department heads, SENCOs, office teams and operations staff, it can support report drafting, timetabling analysis, communication and resource creation in a workspace built around prompts, files and review. The key is using it with clear guardrails: minimum-data inputs, accessibility checks, human sign-off and strong governance so AI supports professional judgement rather than replacing it.
January INSET: Practical AI by Department
January 6, 2026
January is the right moment to move school AI training from broad awareness to practical, low-risk use. This workshop plan sets out a shared 90-minute INSET session that every department can join, using free-tier tools and clear safeguards. It includes parallel pathways for reluctant and confident staff, realistic use cases across teaching, pastoral and admin work, and a simple first-half-term implementation model. The goal is not novelty, but consistent adoption that saves time, improves quality and stays within sensible privacy rules.
ChatGPT Health and European Schools
January 5, 2026
A major AI health launch can quickly trigger interest from school leaders, PSHE leads and safeguarding teams, especially when headlines suggest new support for wellbeing conversations. Yet if a service is not available in the UK, EEA and Switzerland, schools need a calm, evidence-based response. This briefing explains how to verify geographic availability, avoid mistaken procurement assumptions, assess data protection and safeguarding risks, and put a no-regrets contingency plan in place using human-led support and approved alternatives for the current term.
2025 in AI and Education: What Changed
December 31, 2025
2025 brought bigger models, louder launches and sharper policy debates, but schools did not change because of headlines alone. By December, the real shifts were quieter: tighter governance, more careful procurement, clearer safety boundaries and more selective use of AI for routine workload tasks. This end-of-year review judges the year by one practical test only: what actually altered day-to-day school practice. The verdict is clear. 2025 mattered less for dramatic breakthroughs and more for the boundaries and habits that finally became normal.