If you wish to restrict Meta’s ability to train its models on your data and information then you can, but it’s not an easy process.

If you're in (or interested) in the EdTech space, we Oak National Academy) are running a public hackaton next month in London where you can access Oak's data for whatever projects you please.

Sign up and details here: thenational.academy/blog/you-re-in…

(I've been developing their OpenAPI)

An example of a weakness in how LLMs train: The vast majority of teachers believe in Learning Styles (that some people are auditory learners, visual learners, etc) but Styles aren't real & teaching to preferred Styles hurts learning.

But LLMs pick up on the overwhelming belief.

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GPT4o (through API) genuinely makes a difference to UX.

Feels like a major upgrade.

You’re invited to Oak National Academy’s hackathon in London at Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, Fri 7th, Sat 8th Jun.

This is an open invitation to come and experiment with Oak National Academy’s openly licensed content to see if you can enhance your own products, or create high-impact new products that support

There are other tools that you can augment to improve Maths quality and computation, but users, especially teachers, do need to be aware of the limitations, alongside the brilliant abilities of genAI.

Aurora Borealis over Manchester

Congratulations to all those that have shortlisted for Tes Schools Awards 2024.

It is a privilege to be a judge again this year.

Go take a look at the shortlist over at:

tes.com/en-gb/schools-…

Exactly 4 years on at Oak National Academy and hundreds of millions of lessons later!

If you look closely in the video, you will see two climbers. One of which was me taking this!

If you're a member of a Union and you're not happy because they are ineffective and do weird things, remember that using the code below gets you £30 off an Edapt subscription!

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Fantastic that Oak National Academy can announce that we will be partnering with Raspberry Pi Foundation to create a model KS1-4 computing curriculum that teachers can adapt and use in their schools. #caschat #edutwitter thenational.academy/blog/introduci…

🖥️ Oak National Academy has named new curriculum partners who successfully bid for a slice of £7 million to help create free lesson materials for eight more subjects
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One my favourite Oak National Academy user stories of the last few years.

Bugs present themselves in many forms, even narcissistically.

lt turns out that switching on subtitles on TV can help your child read.

Parents in Essex are rolling out a campaign to thousands of schools in the UK and the US after a report found 50,000 children started secondary school without basic English and maths skills last year.

I recently asked some of Oak National Academy engineering team if there was anything they regretted building in their software engineering career.

As a developer, have you ever used JS Bin? Here was the unexpected answer from THAT @REM SHOW.

Enjoy the story:

remysharp.com/2015/09/14/jsb…