How can you make your lessons FUN and RELEVANT? A thread with top tips below...🧵

Brilliant 👍

All children I’ve taught love this mode of instruction. Chunk difficult content, teach it explicitly with concrete examples, build on prior knowledge, get everyone participating & feeling successful & praise progress. This is winning combination for ALL pupils.

I’m currently in a used book store perusing the “education” section. My word, we’ve had a lot of dumb ideas about education over the years! They’ve made some people very rich while robbing others of a good education.

It's becoming very obvious that generative AI is making all forms of non-exam assessment totally obsolete. It's a threat to the integrity of education everywhere. It's not that hard to solve though - we just need more handwritten & in-person exams!

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The Most Important Memory is Still the One Inside Your Head carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-most-imp…

AI bros on the timeline are a bit quiet about this study. New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can hardly remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process

Nothing beats good old hard work. Schools must defend knowledge-curricula, traditional exams & teachers must understand cognitive load theory to prevent being seduced by AI trends influencing schooling.

This is why understanding how learning works is so important. People predicted this result without needing the study. Mayer and Fiorella’s Generative Learning Theory may have become the single most important thing for teachers to know in the age of AI.

Secondary science teachers, the science in action book is excellent. Really helpful if you are putting a science plan together too. #edchatie

If you agree then retweet this thread. Want to find out more? Try this blog adam-robbins.com/2024/10/11/a-c…, or this book amzn.eu/d/4odiwXl or get in touch with me!

Drop in LLM Chatbot usage when school lets out for the summer. (Data from OpenRouter, reported by Morning Brew ☕️)

Going through this book again from ⁦Adam Boxer⁩ What a fantastic resource for all teachers. One of the best! #edchatie

I agree that many schools are not ready for this. But they should have been. For years, students have been able to cheat on homework. Now, it's easier and faster, but fundamentally the same problem. carousel-learning.com/resources/blog…

Adam Boxer Yup. Artificial intelligence democratizes cheating.

No No No No No No No No with a cherry on top? I strongly doubt AI is anywhere close to being able to do this effectively, let alone the message it sends about "how much we care about training new teachers"