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...
by mark | Nov 4, 2025 | Activity, Slideshow, Teaching Resources
Most learners can remember song lyrics for years — but forget lesson content in weeks.So… what if we turned curriculum knowledge into songs? The Challenge Singing along to songs from my teenage years in the recently car got me thinking – How come I can remember...
by mark | Oct 21, 2025 | Activity, Slideshow, Teaching Resources
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and and what better way to get students thinking about online safety than by trying to trick an AI wizard? For this week’s Coffee Break AI Challenge let me introduce Gandalf — a playful, free web-based...
