How I use the AI Assessment Scale: Part 1
In case you missed it, we just launched a new website to be the new home for all of our major publications and resources. The AI Assessment Scale has already been used and adapted by hundreds of...
View ArticleTake-home assessments: AI is not the problem
A recent editorial for the Sun-Herald, syndicated in The Age, focused on the threat of artificial intelligence to academic integrity for take home assessments. The main through line of the article was...
View ArticleLesson planning is a verb: why does tech keep treating it as a noun?
This is an article about process versus product, something which I’m more than familiar with as a teacher of writing. But it’s also a conversation that crosses over into every discipline at every...
View ArticleAI in the Writing Process: A Problem of Purpose
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the techniques I use when incorporating AI into my writing process. The article included a description of which apps I use to get these blog posts published. Voice to...
View ArticleStuck Thinking and End-of-School Exams
Stuck thinking is a great term I learned from one of my kids’ books. It describes what happens when you get an idea in your head that becomes so large that it creates resistance to change, and real...
View ArticleFive Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI
It’s been a couple of years now since I first published a short blog post suggesting an AI assessment scale ranging from no AI to full AI. That article opened a door to hundreds of interesting...
View ArticleDigital Plastic as a framework for Critical AI Literacy
I’ve been working with the metaphor of digital plastic for a while now: first to sketch the “geological layer” GenAI is leaving across the web in Digital plastic: Generative AI and the digital...
View ArticleHow (not) to use the AIAS
How Not to Use the AI Assessment Scale We seem to be on a roll with papers getting published recently. In the recent weeks, we’ve had our critical AI literacy paper published in JIME, a paper on...
View ArticleThe AI Assessment Scale: New Peer Reviewed Paper
This post is a brief announcement to let you know that version 2 of the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) has officially been published in an Open Access article through the Journal of University Teaching...
View ArticleWhat Curriculum Leaders Need to Know About AI in 2026
Most of the AI professional development I see in schools is aimed at everyone. Whole-staff sessions covering the basics: how to use GenAI, how to write a prompt, some tools you might find useful… At...
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