My background is in education and music, not technology.
I'm a doctoral researcher at the University of York, and before AI became a major part of my work, I spent years working as a violinist and teaching internationally.
I actually got interested in AI from a slightly unusual angle.
I wanted to know how people were getting around the system.
What could a student realistically do with ChatGPT if they wanted to avoid doing the work themselves? How good could the output look? What kinds of prompts were people using? And how obvious would it be to a teacher?
So I started testing it. I tried the shortcuts, looked at the workarounds and paid attention to what happened when you asked AI to do more and more of the thinking for you.
Then I started seeing the same things in real student work.
That was when it became useful professionally. I began training teachers to understand what their students could already do with AI, because it is difficult to design good assignments or assess student work if you do not understand the tools sitting on the other side of the desk.
From there, the work grew. I started teaching educators how generative AI actually works, where it fails, how to use it responsibly and how to build practical workflows around the work they were already doing.
I also started building my own systems. Curriculum planning. Feedback. Research. Assessment. Content creation. Course development.
I have built more than 50 AI workflows and systems so far, and I keep changing them because the models keep changing.
Over time, I became much less interested in teaching people clever prompts. The more I used AI, the more I became interested in what happens when we start relying on it for things we used to think through ourselves.
That is really where PARK on AI came from.
I use AI a lot. I think educators should understand how to use it well. But I also think we need to be much more deliberate about what we give over to the machine.
There are parts of our work that are repetitive and should probably be automated. There are other parts, especially judgement, interpretation and deciding what matters, that I do not think we should be so quick to hand over.
That idea runs through everything I now teach.
PARK on AI is for educators who want to understand AI properly and use it with more confidence in their work. Teachers, tutors, coaches, trainers, consultants, learning designers and course creators, all in one place.
It started from the same place for me. I wanted to understand what the technology was actually doing before deciding how much of my work I wanted it to do.
