📢📕 A school in Dubai is looking for a visiting author for World Book Day, who works with AI and/or uses AI to illustrate their books. If you know of anyone please tag them in a reply or let us know. Thank you #ai #aibooks #aiart #genai #generativeAI

Vgotsky's zone of proximal development to stretch challenge students need enough formative assessment questions to tune in to an individual student's topic level. Previously super manual but now GenAI can leverage up teachers to write these much faster. open.spotify.com/episode/6xf26V…

"Traditional subject areas, such as history, science and geography, should become the context through which critical thinking, increased creativity and knowledge mastery are taught." amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.thegua…

Mine would be creating images for discussion!

"People say that Estonia, the new education ‘superpower’, is ‘competence-based’ and must be opposed to our ‘knowledge-rich’ model in England. They clearly have not read the Estonian national curriculum on which that nation’s current success rests. The two are uncannily similar. "

Honoured to be part of a panel discussion planned here!

Impressive. But what is the point? Is such vast knowledge accumulation to pass 28 A level exams truly going to help with life success, happiness and productivity in a 21st century world? bbc.co.uk/news/education…

I like this question as it gets us thinking about our voice as a lasting legacy not just a current device

"Some teachers think they need to teach metacognitive approaches in... ‘thinking skills’ sessions... metacognitive strategies should be taught in conjunction with specific subject content as pupils find it hard to transfer these generic tips to specific tasks."

Should parents be responsible for all this? 46% of pupils are unable to sit still, 38% struggle to play or share with others, 37% cannot dress themselves, 29% cannot eat or drink independently and 28% are swiping books. ihv.org.uk/news-and-views…

Looking forward to this and for being a panel member on the 'Chat (not GPT) session!'

.Geoff Barton will today call for a renewed effort to improve the provision and quality of oracy education amid the ‘rise of robots’, as he is announced as chair of new oracy commission tes.com/magazine/news/…

At Speaking Summit listening to new Voice 21 CEO Kate Paradine. I'm struck by how their Oracy approach is deeper than just talking tools, it's a cultural change across a school (teachers, students, parents) to helping children feel listened to and be empowered. ♥️

Really enjoyed being a member of the panel discussion !

Practical advice to generate Oracy support in schools: get into School Development Plan and link to other priorities, e.g. how oracy supports reading attainment

Listening ladder to support reluctant speakers: focus, be still, eye contact, nod, ask questions, summarise....🪜 Voice 21 Oracy

Super interested in how technology is supporting assessment of traditionally difficult to measure human skills like communication, creativity and critical thinking.... Voice 21 Oracy

One teacher I spoke to recommends the Voice 21 Oracy Nesting then Traverse method: giving children time to think before speaking (Nest), then 'speed date' their way through other children to hear their views but in a low stakes way (Traverse), before providing their own opinion