Category: Teaching
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‘Artificialising’ Intelligence – or the ancient art of cheating
Last week a journalist got in touch to ask me what I thought about the use of calculators in A-Level mathematics – the two-year ‘gold standard’ exam in England and Wales that many students choose as they build to go to university. The question was put like this: To what extent did you find students…
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American Psycho x Middle Class
A very interesting piece the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. Rachel Monroe documents the story of a wealthy neighbourhood in Arizona that has been terrorised by the ‘Goons’ gang of rampaging, uber-privileged kids… ending with a murder, and seven boys on trial. In south Gilbert, the Goons looked like J. Crew models. “Some…
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Goldsmiths | The importance of design in a GenAI world
Had an amazing time at Goldsmiths presenting on the book for the Expanded Practice Design MA course! So good to throw the material in the book up against a new context, and see what interesting resonances come out. Most importantly, I wanted to highlight how all technologies emerge into a theological and socio-cultural context… and…
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‘An open approach to AI’ – God-like in the TES
Good to have been commissioned by TES – the Time Educational Supplement – to write a piece translating the four-point AI Transparency Statement that God-like begins with into the education context. You can read it here. The idea is simple: rather than ‘AI is terrible, and we’re banning it,’ a means by which teachers can…
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‘We are beyond crisis; we are in a state of distress’
It’s exactly a year since I finally left teaching. It’s coming up for two years since my debut novel – MIDDLE CLASS – was published (get a copy here). And it’s no surprise to see the headlines about the mental health crisis in schools. This is where the novel takes you: inside a London school,…