This is a well-written piece on how education should better cater to how knowledge actually exists in the brain.
New on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
New post on Substack
Durable Mastery: How to design for knowledge that survives profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/durable-ma...
What!?!? But Lennon is a such a dislikable and screwed up character. I'd much rather be McCartney please.
Excellent description and explanation from @profbeckyallen.bsky.social of why all the 'moderation' exercises organised by Education Scotland and local authorities have largely been a huge waste of precious teacher time. 1/2
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My view is that there are strong regularities in how ideas are best taught, but not a single “one true explanation” for every learner: a narrow design space with a canonical route + predictable repair branches. I suspect you and I differ on how far that can go. I’m planning to blog on this.
Happy New Year everyone! Here's a new Substack post. It's partly about the regularities of instructional design. And partly about the work of @krisboulton.bsky.social...
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/regulariti...
Finally, a piece on whether AI can solve education's perennial problem of passing on the best instructional techniques by @profbeckyallen.bsky.social. The most thought-provoking blogs on AI and its impacts are coming from those in the education field.
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Another Substack post on the future of AI in education.
Reward Hacking the Classroom: Reinforcement learning wants to “teach to the test”, but that’s not what teachers do
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New on my Substack: Will the Machine Ever Learn How to Teach? (I'm afraid it's a little on the long side...)
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New on 100% Assessment Substack: Does Your Test Really Measure Attainment? When summed scores mislead and how IRT helps
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With news that triple science offer may become a requirement for schools, here are current arrangements from @teachertapp.bsky.social . teachertapp.com/articles/tri...
Hey #EduSkyPrimary. I had a little bit of influence into yesterday’s @teachertapp.bsky.social questions on levelled readers which are very topical right now so if you haven’t answered yet, I would be very grateful. 🙏 Really interested to see the results!
New blogpost from me: The Progress of EdTech Depends on Our Tolerance for Error profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-progre...
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Why Schools Don't Report Uncertainty in Test Scores 100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school... @head-teach.bsky.social
New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation.
In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content.
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promis...
New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation.
In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content.
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promis...
Typically excellent.
You are committing exactly the same aggregation fallacy that I talk about in the blog post. Your chart shows a relationship between averages!
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Target Grades - Useful or Unhelpful? 100assessment.substack.com/p/target-gra... @head-teach.bsky.social
I'm also moving my personal blog onto Substack so do subscribe if you would like to. profbeckyallen.substack.com
At lightening speed (for me), I've written up my talk from ResearchED this month. Can AI help with formative assessment? profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/can-ai-hel...
New from me.
The Dangers of Diagnosis.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...
I know it’s just abridged and has to sound and it is swifty differentiated explained in the text. Alas: As long as we explain «AI» w/ human analogies of understanding, addressing or supporting, we keep ourselves from thinking it different.
Worth reading the more complex text, #BlueLz. #lernenmitki
Ha! I’m wildly more optimistic than you about whether AI can re-construct school-level curricula, when asked. It may reflect our subject differences - “English” is very poorly specified. I’m talking about it at researchED- see you there!
New on 100% Assessment: The Trouble with Progress Reports... The case for and against telling parents whether students are making progress.
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We’re going to write a post very soon on confidence interval reporting pros and cons. I like that framing - most framing of CIs is unintelligible to parents.
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Should Subjects Be Required to Report Attainment on a Common Scale?https://100assessment.substack.com/p/should-subjects-be-required-to-report @head-teach.bsky.social
I’m really looking forward to my ResearchEd National talk this year:
'Of Gods and ideas: how intelligence became artificial’.
I’m going to chart how our conceptions of learning have evolved (or degraded) over three millennia — from communing with gods to acquiring and organising data.
