General assistants vs purpose-built teacher tools
When a blank chat box beats a task-shaped button, and when it is the other way round.
Guides and comparisons
Hands-on comparisons, teaching workflows and plain explanations of the rules that apply to AI in classrooms.
Comparisons
Marking with AI: what to automate and what to keep
A line between the parts of marking that are transcription and the parts that are judgement.
What to check before putting an AI tool in a mainland classroom
The questions a school should ask about availability, filing, labelling and student data — and where to get an authoritative answer.
A starter AI policy for a department, in one page
The four decisions a department has to make, written plainly enough to hand to students.
AI slide tools: what actually matters when you teach from them
Five criteria that decide whether generated courseware survives contact with a classroom, and the two that vendors advertise instead.
Planning a 45-minute lesson with AI, without losing control of it
A five-step sequence that keeps the teaching decisions with the teacher and gives the machine only the parts it is actually good at.