Tag: AI literacy
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AI and judgement: Cultivating taste in an age of capability
Content creation is trivially easy now. Curation—selecting what to make—is also becoming easier as AI learns your patterns. What remains is taste: evaluative judgement about what should exist in the first place. AI can be descriptive but not evaluative. It can learn your preferences but cannot judge whether they’re worth amplifying. That’s your responsibility.
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[Essay] Context sovereignty, engineering, and personal learning
Context sovereignty is the idea that learners should control the personal context that informs AI-supported learning. Instead of constantly explaining your background to AI, AI should develop persistent understanding of your knowledge and thinking patterns. And context engineering provides the practical framework to achieve this. In this essay I explore both concepts, explaining why they…
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Introduction to AI for Learning – BIP AI for Students
In this presentation for the 2025 Blended Intensive Programme on AI for Students, I explore how the integration of AI in health professions education transforms learning by serving as a coach, creative partner, research assistant, and clinical companion. This collaborative approach enhances students’ abilities to handle complex clinical scenarios while maintaining professional judgment as the…
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Developing AI literacy in professional education
Developing AI literacy in students shouldn’t rely on mandatory training. Instead, I suggest using AI to create personalised learning programmes for students that help them address real-world problems that are important to them. I give an example of preparing for clinical placement using generative AI. By having students interact with AI to build unique plans…
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A pencil literacy framework
A lovely satirical post about the kinds of policies we might see come into play, if pencils were introduced into schools today.
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Prompt engineering is a dead end
One of the more common takes when it comes to developing AI literacy is to talk about prompt engineering as a skill we need to develop. Search for the phrase, and you’ll find plenty of resources, promising to help you become a prompt engineer. For a while now, I’ve been saying that prompt engineering is…