Leon Furze

Leon Furze

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EDUCATION

This is an audio version of the blog at https://leonfurze.com/blog. Leon Furze talks about generative artificial intelligence and digital technologies in education.

2 DAYS AGO

What Happens When The AI Bubble Bursts

In What Happens When the AI Bubble Bursts?, Leon Furze argues the current GenAI bubble will inevitably burst, much like the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

11 min
5 FEB

Technology Is Actually Pretty Great

In Technology is Actually Pretty Great, Leon Furze argues that the problem isn't technology itself but corporate capture of digital life in education. Returning from a hiatus spent finishing his PhD and developing a new course, he reflects on how OpenAI's problems—privacy, sustainability, copyright, labour exploitation—are symptoms of the broader tech industry.

12 min
23 JAN

What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?

In What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?, Leon Furze shares findings from a survey of approximately 3,000 educators across K-12, early childhood, universities, TAFEs, and related industries spanning multiple countries.

12 min
11/12/2025

Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach

n Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach, Leon Furze presents a framework for supporting teachers in developing expertise with GenAI.

16 min
02/12/2025

Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education

In Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education, Leon Furze reflects on his experience at the Future Skills Organisation National Forum in Canberra, arguing that the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector is ideally positioned to meaningfully integrate GenAI.

12 min
24/11/2025

Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with GenAI

In Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI, Leon Furze argues that assessment reform should focus on good pedagogical practice rather than policing AI use. While the AI Assessment Scale has become widely adopted, Furze emphasizes that the principles behind it—validity, authenticity, transparency—were important long before ChatGPT.

19 min
17/11/2025

About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI

In About, With, Through, Without, Against: Five Ways to Learn AI, Leon Furze pushes back against simplistic binaries about whether AI helps or harms learning. He argues that young people are adaptable and capable, and proposes five overlapping approaches to thinking about AI in education. Learning about AI covers AI literacy—how to use and understand the technology—but Furze warns against making every teacher responsible for teaching AI skills. Learning with AI includes tutor chatbots and using AI for feedback, though he remains skeptical about personalized learning claims. Learning through AI treats the technology as a conduit or medium, like semantic search engines.

16 min
10/11/2025

Open Source AI is Going Mainstream

In Open Source AI is Going Mainstream, Leon Furze explores the growing significance of open source artificial intelligence beyond the GPT-5 hype cycle. He begins by clarifying what "open source AI" actually means, noting that the term has become contentious—many so-called "open source" models from companies like Meta are more accurately described as "open weights," since their underlying architecture, training processes, and datasets remain proprietary. True open source projects expose their entire codebase to public examination and adaptation.

12 min
04/11/2025

OpenAI Has Come for Education

He explores how learning management systems already constrain pedagogy by forcing educators to systematize learning into predetermined formats, and questions what happens when OpenAI's chatbot takes control of content production across these platforms. Furze is particularly concerned about OpenAI's study mode—which he found pedagogically flawed despite claims of expert input—and sees it as part of a larger strategy to position the company as the solution to problems it helped create.

16 min
10/10/2025

Stuck Thinking and End-of-School Exams

In Stuck Thinking and End-of-School Exams, Leon Furze examines the assumptions that anchor our current model of exam-based assessment—and argues that many of them are “stuck thinking.” He questions why we let the high-stakes end exam dictate upstream assessments, curriculum priorities, and even our trust in students. He suggests we treat exams differently: as one piece of evidence rather than the organising point. He also links this critique to the challenges and opportunities posed by generative AI in assessment. The piece invites educators to reconsider what exams should do (and when), rather than automatically preserving the status quo.

13 min

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This is an audio version of the blog at https://leonfurze.com/blog. Leon Furze talks about generative artificial intelligence and digital technologies in education.

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Leon Furze
Years Active

2025 - 2026
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10
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Clean
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