How it works

How the interactive tools work

The online edition has six kinds of interactive feature. None of them is needed to follow the book, and the EPUB and print editions contain the same text without them. Each feature says where it comes from in the book, and nothing you type is sent anywhere unless a feature says so.

The coach at the end of each part

Each of the eleven parts ends with a coach, in four tabs. Scenario gives you a realistic situation and three possible responses; pick the one closest to what you would do and you see why it fits and what is worth weighing. Self-check is five statements about your own school or organisation, each rated from not yet to fully; the feedback points you to the chapters most likely to help. Reflect gives you written prompts with a box to answer in. Ask lists questions readers often put about that part. Your answers are kept in your own browser only, so they are there when you come back on the same device, and you can clear them.

Four Futures Explorer (Part One, Chapter 4)

Two uncertainties shape the next decade: how fast AI develops, and whom it ends up serving. Cross them and you get four futures. Pick a corner, then flip six switches, each with an accountable choice or an opaque one, and see which way your choices push. The scoring rule is an illustration, not a forecast and not a finding from the research.

The Verification Lab (Part Five)

Three fluent, professional-sounding briefs (a policy memo, a health brief and a business memo), each with three planted errors and one accurate claim. Read a brief, decide whether you would trust or flag each claim, then open the audit to see what was wrong and how to check it. It practises the habit the book recommends: verify before you rely.

The leadership decision tree (Part Eight)

You lead a school and a free AI tutor is offered. Each choice changes where the school ends up, and a meter tracks how much of the recommended order you have kept: purpose, conversation, red lines, alignment, then iteration. The school and the vendor are invented; the order and the failure patterns come from Chapters 40 and 41.

Ask the book

Type a question and the search returns the passages from the book that best match it, with links to the chapter. An optional button, “Write a short answer from these passages”, asks an AI to compose a short answer using only those passages. That answer can contain mistakes, so check it against the passages shown, and it only works when the site’s live-answers service is switched on. If it is off, the passage search still works.

Light and dark display, and links

The Light / dark button in the header switches the display. Numbers in square brackets, such as [187], link to the numbered references, and each reference links back to the chapters that cite it. Where a reference has a DOI, the DOI is a live link.