Donald Clark Plan B

Assessment within institutions is at a crossroads, squeezed between human nature and AI.

Just finished a big, fat book ‘The Infinity Machine’, about Demis Hassabis.

A new teaching and learning tool has appeared in Google Translate.

Illusion of competence In their 2006 research, Karpicke and Roediger used rereading as the control, as that is what most learners do, see Karpicke, Butler and Roediger (2009).

Some describe the assessment issue in higher education as apocalyptic, destroying the very fabric of higher education.

AI Confidential with Hannah Fry is suspect.

“AI is your friend, not your enemy” was the title to my Keynote.

The most obvious problem with a European social media platform and software migration, touted by the EU, is that a political stance is not enough to shift the dial.

There is a widening hierarchy of participants and drivers in AI.

So Starmer, who is now working full time on digging his own grave, wants votes for 16-year-olds.

Team, We are entering a time where more merchants and entrepreneurs could be created than any other in history.

Hey team, I’ve always believed in radical candor and despise those who sugar-coat reality to avoid stating the unpleasant truth.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) claims to be revolutionary but it is an ideologically-driven sham.

Arizona has taken a bold leap in education by approving a pioneering model: a charter school where artificial intelligence takes the lead in teaching.

The venerable Mary Beard invited me to debate the ‘Future of Latin’ at the British Museum some time ago and every few years, normally in line with the electoral cycle, the issue arises again.

As easy as one-two-three?

The findings in this paper by Zheng and Meister 'The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?'

Great to see a meta-study asking this bold question: Does ChatGPT enhance student learning?

‘Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before,’ said Franz Kafka.

A 30 minute talk given yesterday by Ilya Sutzkever already being seen as seminal.

I have just visited the Ramesseum, and the statue that inspired Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’.

I’m deeply suspicious, not of the claim that emotions are important in learning, but of the assumption made on the back of this, that emotion is quite simply a good thing in learning.

You may feel uncomfortable reading this, as it is a contentious area.

I had an epiphany some years back.

Google’s Gemini-Exp-1114 has launched and is getting rave reviews.