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Notes from teaching, marking, and building PrismMO. Each piece is short, practical, and written for educators in the same situation: AI is in the room, students are using it, and the submitted artefact no longer tells you what you used to be able to read from it. The aim across all of them is the same one PrismMO is built around. Keep thinking visible.

Essay · Methods How to capture student thinking during programming work Six practical ways to leave a readable trace of how AI-assisted code was built, arranged through the PRISM Workflow so the evidence lands in one place and can be read the same way every time. 24 April 2026 Essay · Fundamentals Do programming fundamentals still matter when AI can write code? Why the fundamentals matter more, not less, when students use AI to write code, and how to make them visible inside the coursework you already set.

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