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

Picking up your own tab is a behaviour approach that has caused a lot of harm & is why many teachers feel utterly undermined.

I've been able to create a Data Zone deployment of gpt-5 in Sweden Central, but when I try to do the same for gpt-5-mini it says I have no quota. Is this a known issue? I haven't got any other deployments of this model yet. Any help appreciated! @azure @msdev @nicholasdbrady

Heads of Maths if you’re not already using https://t.co/3qhSoSdBeI then you really need to take a look. Have been playing with the free trial for a week with a v.small sample of our year 10 end of year assessments and it’s a real game changer! Also the support from James is 5⭐️

Thank you @unleashing_me for your inspiring session at today's @MercianTrustCPD conference. You've challenged us to think about what it really means to be at the "heart of our community", with practical examples from your brilliant work at @ChilternLT.

The joy of seeing behaviour improve and the scales tilting towards positivity and learning cannot be overstated. I've seen it happen twice in two challenging contexts. If you think the aim of the above is control then you've missed the point.

When will schools wake up? A pre-published, groundbreaking study has found that for “deeper reading” there is a clear advantage to reading a text on paper, rather than on a screen, where “shallow reading was observed”. https://t.co/6Aj6chwq2j

(3) The act of retrieving information from memory is a "dynamic process that alters the subsequent state of the system" When we remember something, we almost rewrite it again. This is why memory is so untrustworthy. Remembering is an active process that can reinforce or modify

Three main things to focus on for student learning: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 you teach (curriculum) 𝗛𝗼𝘄 it’s taught (instruction) and 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 they’ve learned it (assessment). You can focus on tangential things like generic skills, growth mindset, grit, metacognition, engagement, SEL,

THREAD: Some schools have great behaviour. But I’m interested in how you IMPROVE behaviour. I’ve only ever worked in turnaround situations, and these are the specific whole school policies I’ve seen work. In order of effectiveness:

Leaders! Two terms to delete from your vocabulary: Quality assurance Non-negotiables Whether or not the things contained within these terms are useful is one thing, but as terms they are toxic for achieving any kind of positive vibes around teacher performance.

I've created an open-source AI app that schools can deploy to assist teachers with common educational and administrative tasks. It's a thin wrapper around OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4, and a great alternative to emerging commercial products. #ai #edtech https://t.co/j3NMgltflb

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@adamboxer1 @Clement86234462 Yup. Why on earth spend precious minutes creating something pointless, and purely for show, when you could spend those minutes doing the serious, difficult work of curricular thinking. It's a triumph of form/show over substance. Nothing about it means the curriculum is any good.

It’s worth considering if teachers are forever running decentralised detentions, restorative chats, chasing pupils to attend these things etc then what are they not doing with that time... Time is finite. It’s about opportunity cost. I imagine the curriculum ends up 2nd place.

When you return to school, ensure you deliver the high expectations messages on line up, in assembly, on transition, at break, at lunch, in the classroom, in a warm and welcoming manner....relate to your anchors (your values). 35 days to make a difference

I fear schools/trusts too often fear aggressive parents, fear they’ll go to press/ofsted/governors/trustees. When we fear unreasonable parents we allow those parents to decide school culture. That’s a dereliction of duty on part of head/trust.

Schools are STILL promoting 100% attendance certificates and rewards?! Please stop.