by mark | Feb 26, 2026 | News, Teaching Resources
Executive Summary Schools rarely lack devices. What they often lack is a shared language for what those devices are for. The 7 I’s is a model I’ve created to help leaders and teachers describe technology use in terms of purpose, not kit. It’s non-judgemental and...
by mark | Jan 22, 2026 | Activity, Slideshow, Teaching Resources
This week’s Coffee Break AI Challenge asks you to do something that feels counter-intuitive at first:use AI to deliberately design wrong answers. Not silly ones.Not obviously incorrect ones.But the kind of answers that look reasonable, sound confident, and reveal...
by mark | Dec 17, 2025 | Activity, Slideshow, Teaching Resources
This week’s Coffee Break AI Challenge tackles one of the biggest anxieties teachers have about AI in the classroom: “If the AI gives them the answer, where does the thinking happen?” It’s a fair question but it’s also the wrong way to define the problem. The issue...
by mark | Dec 2, 2025 | Activity, Slideshow, Teaching Resources
This week’s Coffee Break AI Challenge takes a look at a tool that behaves suspiciously like the organised, well-prepared version of us that only appears briefly in September: Google’s NotebookLM. NotebookLM is designed as a research companion. Not the kind that goes...
by mark | Nov 19, 2025 | Activity, Slideshow, Teaching Resources
Featuring AI… Trying Its Best to be funny and deciding it’s actually human like me This week’s Coffee Break AI Challenge takes a light-hearted look at AI creativity — specifically, Can an AI help you to write a joke? I was at a conference recently where a...
