CEO @ReadingWise. Working with schools and MATs to improve reading.

Sussex
Joined February 2013
Exploring Claude's constitution. Useful summary via @n_a_gordon arguing we move from compliance to comprehension. Claude now taking into account context and potential unexpected consequences as part of its modus operandi. bcs.org/articles-opinion-and…
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AGI - now useless as a term. "Today’s best AI systems are good enough that they’re now insidethe fuzzy conceptual cloud of “AGI-ish”: that is, they’ve surpassed some people’s definitions of AGI, while falling well short of others’." via @hlntnr and her substack.
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New data from the DfE: school capacity stats. explore-education-statistics…
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New report into GCSE outcomes for EHCP pupils - comparing mainstream schools vs special schools.
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The delays and challenges in securing EHCPs are widely known. Local authorities lose over 96% of challenges that go to tribunal. They spend millions on legal fees to (almost certainly) lose. Interested to see a study examining effect of delays in EHCP application on outcomes.
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Link to the report "GCSE Outcomes for Pupils with EHCPs: Mainstream versus Special School Settings" assets.publishing.service.go…
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Amazing pricing range on trains Brighton to Bath.
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Jamie Fries retweeted
I have a pupil in my class (Year 6) who did this in about ten minutes. She's massively talented. Some ideas about how to help her move forward would be very much appreciated. Art isn't really my speciality.
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Read more about AlphaFold in our blog: deepmind.google/blog/alphafo… Watch The Thinking Game on YouTube (a sort of sequel to the award-winning AlphaGo documentary - if you enjoyed that, you will enjoy this): youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzv…
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Thrilled to celebrate 5 years of AlphaFold 2! It’s now been used by over 3 million researchers around the world to accelerate their vital research - and it was an honour of a lifetime for our work to be recognised last year with the Nobel Prize! Proof of AI’s potential to enable science at digital speed 🚀 To honour the anniversary, we’ve made The Thinking Game film available for free on our YouTube channel - it’s a great look behind the scenes of AlphaFold & our journey to AGI.
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Are EHCPs driving the SEND crisis or a symptom of it? Is SEND demand in 2025 any larger than it was in 2010? Will scrapping EHCPs actually achieve anything productive? One of the best analyses of the SEND crisis I have read from @MargaretMulhol2 tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…
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A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI. 2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later. 3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators. 4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc. TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.
Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that. ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be "diselenium diphosphide" and a spelling mistake (should be "thiocyanic acid" not "thoicyanic") :O
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Jamie Fries retweeted
A huge thank you to @Literacy_Trust for their fantastic #ReconstructingReading online sessions this week. I caught up with a couple more this afternoon. The quality has been exceptional. @GalwayMr @ReadingShanahan @eLearnMissKelly @literacytutor5 @ReadOxford
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How insulting to be asked to wait years - 16 years - for an assessment of autism on the NHS. And how irresponsible to leave someone unsupported in this way bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c743…
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Why a generation of kids are learning to read everything except books. Link in reply ⬇️
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A very good share via Benedict Evans newsletter. 'A Youtube Education' on James Marriott's Cultural Capital substack. From civilisation to music to philosophy, a list of some classic television to educate. jmarriott.substack.com/p/a-y…
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