Summer Term Reset for AI Boundaries
April 6, 2026
The first week back after the holidays is a useful moment to reset expectations around student AI use. This tutor-time guide helps schools revisit the grey areas pupils often misunderstand, including homework help, revision support, coursework drafting and when disclosure is expected. It offers a practical structure for a short tutor-time session, discussion scenarios, a simple student pledge and ways to align messages across tutors, subject teachers and parents or carers.
Careers Education for AI-Mediated Hiring
March 19, 2026
Hiring is changing quickly as applicants and employers both use AI to write, screen, rank and interview. Careers education now needs to help students understand not only how to use these tools sensibly, but also how to navigate the risks they create. From AI video interviews and transcription errors to CV automation and proving genuine skills, schools can teach practical habits that improve fairness, confidence and readiness for modern recruitment.
The QuitGPT Movement in Class
February 18, 2026
The QuitGPT backlash offers teachers a timely way to explore consumer activism, media literacy and AI literacy without turning lessons into partisan argument. This article shows how to use boycott posts, screenshots and viral claims as a case study in evidence quality, platform dependency and corporate ethics. It outlines practical questions, source-check routines and discussion protocols that help pupils move from outrage to enquiry. The goal is not to tell students what to think, but to help them examine how online campaigns shape trust, choice and public debate around AI companies.
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.
Teaching AI Ethics: 2025/26 Classroom Kit
September 26, 2025
AI ethics lessons can’t rely on one-off trolley problems any more. In 2025/26, pupils are encountering agentic AI, deepfake voice, AI companions, and AI used in school admin—often before adults realise. This classroom kit offers 12 updated, phase-banded case studies with teacher notes, a repeatable 10–20 minute discussion protocol that builds reasoning rather than ‘hot takes’, and low-marking assessment ideas that capture evidence of process. You’ll also find safeguarding, privacy and inclusion checks, plus a printable prompt pack and one-page run sheet.
Year 7 Transition Day AI Literacy Carousel
June 17, 2025
Transition Days are about belonging, confidence, and routines that reduce September anxiety. This timetable-ready “AI Literacy Carousel” adds a safe, low-stakes layer: pupils learn how to use AI with minimal data, recognise hallucinations and bias, and practise prompt hygiene without needing lots of devices. Six short stations (10–15 minutes each) are mostly paper-based, supported by clear staff scripts and safeguarding boundaries. The day ends with a pupil-friendly Safe AI Charter linked to your school values, signed and taken home—then revisited in tutor time to embed habits early.
KS3/KS4 AI Exploration Week
May 23, 2025
AI Exploration Week is a five-day, student-led project sprint that treats AI as a research and design tool, not a writing shortcut. This timetable-ready scheme builds curiosity while keeping boundaries tight: daily enquiry questions, 10–15 minute mini-lessons on bias, hallucinations and citations, and structured studio time with clear checkpoints. Assessment is evidence-first, focusing on process, source trails and decision-making, so mixed device access is workable. The week ends with a simple showcase that celebrates thinking, not ‘AI magic’.
Phase-banded AI ethics dilemmas toolkit
April 24, 2025
AI ethics can feel abstract, yet pupils meet its effects daily: recommendations, image filters, chatbots, and “too-good-to-be-true” videos. This phase-banded toolkit offers short, story-led dilemmas for Primary, KS3 and KS4, designed for tutor time, PSHE and computing without needing technical detail or real pupil data. Each scenario uses a consistent, safe discussion protocol that helps learners reason about fairness, privacy, consent, deepfakes and ownership.
One year of Sora: a classroom reality check
April 21, 2025
A year on from Sora-style video generation entering mainstream conversation, teachers are asking a practical question: what actually works in a classroom, and what still causes problems? This reality check focuses on the shifts you’ll notice most—better coherence, improved text handling, and more usable editing controls—alongside predictable failure modes like continuity glitches, broken physics, biased portrayals, and unsafe outputs. You’ll find low-stakes use cases, a media literacy sequence, safeguarding boundaries, workload-aware workflows, and a 30-day pilot plan with clear “keep/kill” criteria.
Digital Citizenship and AI
October 24, 2024
As AI tools move into everyday schoolwork, they must become part of digital citizenship, not an optional extra. This article gives teachers age-banded, ready-to-teach mini-units that weave online safety, ethics and academic integrity into practical AI activities. With examples from primary through to upper secondary, and options for low- or no-device classrooms, you can help pupils actually practise responsible AI use rather than simply memorising rules. Includes ideas for classroom routines, pupil agreements and ways to link lessons with school policy and home.
Teaching Source Evaluation in the AI Era
September 17, 2024
Source evaluation has never been more important – or more complicated. With AI tools generating plausible text, images and data in seconds, students now work in a world where “the source” might be a chatbot, a website, a PDF, a video or a social media post. This playbook offers practical routines, checklists and mini-lessons to help students evaluate AI-generated information alongside traditional sources, treating AI tools as sources to be questioned, compared and cited, not oracles to be believed.
Future-Proofing Students: Skills AI Can't Replace
August 19, 2024
As AI tools become part of the everyday school timetable, the real challenge is no longer whether pupils can use them, but whether they can stay meaningfully human alongside them. This playbook offers practical, lesson-level routines that deliberately pair AI workflows with “human-only” thinking, so critical thinking, creativity and empathy are strengthened rather than sidelined. With examples for primary and secondary classrooms, guidance on curriculum and assessment, and a six-week starter plan, it helps schools future‑proof students’ uniquely human strengths instead of simply bolting character education onto technology use.
SearchGPT vs Google for student research
August 5, 2024
OpenAI’s new SearchGPT promises faster, more focused answers than traditional web search – but what does that mean for school research? This practical guide walks students through a full research workflow, from first background scan to final bibliography, showing when to use SearchGPT and when Google (or other search engines) still works best. With concrete example queries, ethical guardrails, and citation workflows, it is designed as a student‑friendly playbook that teachers can share or adapt. The focus is on safe, critical and policy‑aligned use of AI.
When AI Helps vs When It Harms Learning
August 2, 2024
As AI tools become part of everyday school life, the real challenge is no longer “AI: yes or no?” but “AI: when and how?”. This article offers a developmental, research-based framework to help schools decide when AI should act as a scaffold and when it risks becoming a shortcut. With concrete, age-banded classroom rules from early primary to post-16, it focuses on protecting productive struggle, metacognition and deep work, while still harnessing AI’s potential to personalise, explain and extend learning.
Not all AI is Cheating
May 3, 2024
In the contemporary educational landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) can greatly enhance student learning when used ethically. This blog post explores how students can leverage AI tools to improve their essays, understand complex concepts, and make learning more accessible, especially for those with learning difficulties. It also highlights AI's role in making lessons engaging through interactive simulations and gamification. Emphasising the importance of academic integrity, the post provides guidelines for using AI responsibly, ensuring that it serves as a valuable supplement to traditional learning methods rather than a shortcut to success.