information board, by Terry Freedman. This sort of summarises what I consider to be the usefulness of PISA, when you get right down to it.
I used AI to trawl through the latest PISA stats. These pertained to 2025 and were published in September 2026.
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I published this two years ago. I thought it might be interesting to have a look at it again.
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This is a great book for dipping into in order to read about different teaching and assessment strategies, backed up by research.
Read MoreHopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.
Read MoreFinding Fibonacci is a memoir of the authors’ quest to find out about Fibonacci.
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When I was teaching Econnures I realised that I could have taught quite a chunk of the synabus if I'd been able to run Sim City on the school network.
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Although this is a few years old now (2018), it has stood the test of time.
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It’s amazing what you can achieve with a paintbrush and a fork.
Read MoreI first reviewed the Carrot2 search engine in 2016. I found it quite useful then. What’s the story now?
Read MoreA question: is Cognitive Load Theory another example of the emperor’s new clothes?
The Scream, by Terry Freedman (with apologies to Munch)
How vulnerable are schools to viruses and so on? Here are the results of a survey, plus some comments on the role of the ed tech leader in the school.
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An AI summary of feedback received on a course.
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I used Google’s Notebook LM to summarise this report. I have done this to bring the report and its main points to your attention, and to put Notebook LM through its paces.
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I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI, especially for summarising long documents. But the summaries lacked the human touch.
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The Computing curriculum report from Kings College makes some great recommendations for fixing the failures of the current curriculum.
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A few months ago I attended a Westminster Education Forum about the use of AI in Education. I spent quite some time going through the transcript and making notes, but then I thought: why not use AI to do the work?
Read MoreThe Department for Education in England is running a study on how AI might be used for marking work. I thought I’d test AI’s ability to mark a student’s economics essay.
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I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI. Not for creative writing I should add: I think AI has a long way to go before it will tempt me to eschew the likes of David Foster Wallace, Nabakov or Orwell. But for helping one think and, I’m sure, for admin, I think it’s a game-changer.
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I daresay there are schools in which teachers are expected to divide all their lessons into manageable chunks in accordance with Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). The fact that CLT is light on the specifics and is a load of rubbish is seemingly no deterrent.
Read MoreI have a course coming up, one that I’m teaching. I asked an AI writer to draft a press release for it. Here’s what it came up with, with my annotations in italics and in square brackets.
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