Synopsis
Leon Furze argues that “lesson planning” is a dynamic act of design and reflection, yet AI platforms from Google, Microsoft and start‑ups like Magic School keep packaging it as a downloadable product: click a button, get a plan. That noun‑based mindset, he says, feeds compliance paperwork and short‑cuts the messy thinking, collegial dialogue and classroom experimentation that turn curriculum into learning.

Instead of more “generate lesson” buttons, Furze calls for tools that honour process: collaborative spaces like Google’s NotebookLM for curating sources, large‑language models used as simulation partners, and professional development that scaffolds teachers’ own experimentation. AI can help, but only if it expands time for collegial planning and preserves teacher autonomy rather than replacing it with templated outputs.

Originally published at: https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/10/lesson-planning-is-a-verb-why-does-tech-keep-treating-it-as-a-noun/

Links
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/10/lesson-planning-is-a-verb-why-does-tech-keep-treating-it-as-a-noun/
https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/products/classroom/gemini
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/education/copilot
https://www.magicschool.ai/
https://notebooklm.google
https://platform.openai.com/
https://www.anthropic.com/claude
https://leonfurze.com/2024/08/16/low-hanging-fruit-why-ai-lesson-planning-wont-solve-teacher-workload/
https://leonfurze.com/2024/07/01/3-levels-of-lesson-planning-with-genai/
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/07/beyond-time-saving-how-genai-might-actually-help-teacher-workload/

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