Adam Sturdee

When ChatGPT emerged in late 2022, the public conversation in education quickly fixated on the wrong question. Will students cheat? Will essays survive? Will teachers be replaced? These are surface anxieties. The deeper question, the one that should now be reshaping curriculum and pedagogy, is this: in an age when machines can generate plausible answers to almost anything, what is the value of knowing how to ask the right questions? This is not a new problem. It is a philosophical one. And it...

Teachers are quietly building second brains. Who should pay for them?

A practical guide for school leaders on internal championing, change management, and making technology actually stick. The research is clear: technology in schools thrives or stalls based on the quality of internal leadership around it. A well-chosen tool with poor change management will underperform a modest tool with excellent local championing. This is not a comfortable truth for senior leaders who have just signed off a procurement decision. But it is a useful one, because it means the...