Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸

Integrative tasks also require retrieval so why not benefit from the explicit schema-building at the same time?

I advise teachers & students to move on from retrieval practice into more integrative learning/study tasks as quickly as possible, e.g. once students are achieving >80% on retrieval tests after delays of 2 days or more.

How digital reading habits shape reading motivation and comprehension over time: Longitudinal associations in primary school - PubMed Nowadays, children's reading habits extend beyond traditional printed texts, embracing new practices and forms through digital devices. The influence of such new digital reading habits on reading motivation and comprehension development remains largely underexplored. This study aimed to explore reci …

Link to paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41196708/

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How multitasking inhibits learning

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"Too little is known about the field of AI in education for anyone to be an expert yet."

Wouldn't it be ironic if some clever person developed an AI browser plugin that filtred out articles, posts, & comments about AI, LLMs, AI marketing hype, AI "experts", etc.?

Please? Oh, please?!

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Meaning first: Why connecting form and meaning is essential for language learning

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ChatGPT in Education: An Effect in Search of a Cause Background As researchers rush to investigate the potential of AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance learning, well-documented pitfalls threaten the validity of this emerging research. Issues of media co...

With so much news, hype, and 'research' about AI in education, I thought it a good idea to bring this blog and open access article under everyone's attention.

ChatGPT: An effect in search of a cause
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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It’s Time to Move on from Emergency Remote Teaching

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Our new study at Developmental Psychology is out! Longitudinal associations between digital reading, motivation and comprehension in Primary school. Clear mutual associations, and negative influences of digital habits on future motivation. @altamuralidia.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

People who are lazily prompting LLMs to design their materials for them are simply entrenching the poor, sub-optimal practices of the past, & the past of English language teaching is particularly poor & sub-optimal!

...& then, once the main designs, instructional sequences, follow-up activities, & assessment strategies are established, I prompt the LLMs to generate the elements, step by step, checking & editing as I go. AFAIK, there's no other way to ensure good quality instructional design.

I have to confess, the views that @carlhendrick.substack.com expresses are very much in line with my approach to using LLMs to generate English language learning resources, i.e. Careful, deliberate, evidence-informed instructional design, informed by over 2 decades of teaching & design experience...

Sorry, Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com

Carl Hendrix writes an insightful summary of the best research into using AI for education to date & poses some interesting questions.

By far, the best article on AI in education I've read so far: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...

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Digital sovereignty or digital colony? A wake-up call for Europe

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Making the student writing process transparent: Version control as a practical & pedagogical response to LLM enabled academic misconduct

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Making the student writing process transparent: Version control as a practical & pedagogical response to LLM enabled academic misconduct

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European Convention on Human Rights - Wikipedia

What the ECHR is for: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...

Here's a list of UK MPs who voted in favour of starting a process to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Never forget what these people did: votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...

Recruiting, retaining, and supporting teachers Summary of evidence to help school leaders recruit and retain teachers, drawing on EEF and wider research.

For anyone in educational management & who might want to rethink the ways in which they regard & treat their teachers, i.e. not having to recruit significant numbers of teachers every academic year: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

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ELT methodology is chronically under-defined: When we teach without definition, we teach in the dark

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Rethinking grammar instruction: Why usage-based, Construction Grammar-informed language learning outperforms skill-acquisition approaches

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Rethinking error correction: More effective pathways for grammatical development

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Austin, J. L. (1975). How to Do Things with Words (J. O. Urmson & M. Sbisà, Eds; 2nd edn). Harvard University Press.

The brain is the stupidest object in the universe.

Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain.

Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.

6. Clear off-ramps for disruption
7. Pastoral strategies for highly chaotic students
8. De-emphasise strategies with no strong evidence base
9. Reboots of the school culture
10. Leadership of all of the above