Peter Ford

Curriculum manager in HE/FE. Masters in E-Tech and PhD in Ed' Research. Research and development director in a software house prior to education. Views my own.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @TerraOrBust Lol brutal Donald. Burnham is a bit of an enigma he has turned into a stumbling Buffoon even quicker than Starmer. Or is it a clever play to lull everyone into a false sense of security.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@ShakinthatChalk Yes, I think the cynicism that Gove and Gibb portrayed picking out people who agreed with them and filled just about every govt position with them was quite something.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@New_Old_Paul I can’t tell if that is a montage of educational rock n roll stars or a police photograph of a heist team featured on Crime Watch.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @dylanwiliam One more point on this, AI is also costly from a commercial use perspective. The company I now work (one division is educational software) has getting on for 3,000 employees and monitors use due to cost, which is annoying.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @dylanwiliam It is and that is why it will face resistance not least from the the various social groups but also from Silicon Valley itself. They can’t afford to disrupt the economy because their business models depend on a stable economy with demand. AI doesn’t buy from AI companies.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@ShakinthatChalk @DonaldClark @dylanwiliam @HargreavesBC Theoretically, AI delivers personalised content and takes real time data from assessment to feed forward. Teachers can do it for a small number but not 30 plus. Teachers will review the data and deliver interventions. I think that’s how it will end up.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

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[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

Finally a Yanis tweet that makes sense!

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Με οδυνηρά αργό ρυθμό, αλλά παρ’ όλα αυτά σταθερά, η καμπάνια για το μποϊκοτάζ του Ισραήλ προχωρά. Η Dana Petroleum μόλις αποχώρησε από το Ισραήλ, συνειδητοποιώντας ότι δεν είναι ιδιαίτερα έξυπνη επιχειρηματική ιδέα (τουλάχιστον μακροπρόθεσμα) να συνδράμει και να υποθάλπει μια γενοκτονία. https://t.co/mOxOmM3Jxb

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@warmMagnet @New_Old_Paul I’ve just googled wishful thinking for a definition and it came up with exactly the same text

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@AaronBastani @RichHeydarian I think it’s likely socio economic as opposed to ideology. Correlation is not causation.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @dylanwiliam Exactly and ironically it is often driven by so called progressives because they still cling onto the view that they can spend their way to a better world and the rich will bail them out but it isn’t going to happen because never before has wealth been so mobile.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @dylanwiliam I agree but aspects of it may hit a cost benefit barrier. I’m trying to articulate an antidote and an explanation to the current anti tech sentiment. Likely as not AI will evolve with human society as technologies have in the past due to societal constraints.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@Rokewood But it does happen on those estates and no one does anything. Grooming gangs operating in Northern England from the 70s onwards were blatant yet 50 years later some still struggle to own it. Making this about power and privilege is arguably also a betrayal of those estates.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @dylanwiliam I see cost of labour as a constraint. Also technological cost and humans ability to be able to leverage the technology. And also the political cost of threatening a once dominant middle class who will suffer the most. Technology doesn’t always trump society: Concorde?

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@DonaldClark @dylanwiliam Human labour may turn out to be cheaper than AI.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@RogersHistory @rpondiscio I don’t think so - some noticeable changes in direction there. No names mentioned.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@AllyFogg To be fair, I tend to think one of the Ten Commandments should be ‘Thou shalt not think of Penistone’. Course I realise that’s not big picture stuff for a deity.

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@ded6ajd Yes sorry I agree but also the 2nd tweet. ‘What does cognitive processes elicited in practice’ mean? And how do you infer that the effects lend themselves to context dependent instructional approach? /2’ .

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

Can anyone make the link between the results and the assertions at the bottom. How do you make inferences on an authentic classroom based upon effects? How do you moderate 4 or 5 different constructs each one being complex multi variant constructs? /1

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

Meta-analysis of retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving in classrooms concludes fairly robust average effects of each (open access) https://t.co/J4MfmNZQml

[Peter Ford @EdSacredProfane]

@AllyFogg Near Barnsley?