After 5 years, today marks my final week leading @OakNational. I’m so glad to close this chapter with the brilliant news that our resources are now live in prisons.
@tes has kindly let me reflect (ok, indulge) on my time. A quick summary below…🧵
https://t.co/5xuSunjyN5
It was fantastic to host @patmcfaddenmp and @CMcKinnellMP at the brilliant @CharterSe16 this morning.
Teachers were really positive about how @OakNational's Aila can free them up to have more time with pupils and personalise their support.
This morning @patmcfaddenmp & @CMcKinnellMP visited Charter School Bermondsey, where teachers are using @OakNational AI to create lesson plans
This is just one example of how the government's AI Opportunities Action Plan will harness the potential of new technology across the UK
🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back…
Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers to save time and have a more manageable workload, explained below by @patmcfaddenmp.
👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday on how to plan high-quality, personalised lessons with Aila: https://t.co/LHFAlWYdef
⚡Don’t just take it from us.
Across the 2023/2024 academic year, here’s how teachers found using our resources helped them - from time saved to workload management to improved wellbeing, all of which leave teachers free to spend more time with pupils!
💫1 in 3 teachers use Oak
and those teachers are making the most of new resources - with Oak usage up 158% on last year!
💫73% of Oak users see a positive impact on their workload - either reducing their hours, or freeing them up to spend more time with pupils.
💫Oak users work almost five hours fewer per week with the impact growing the more a teacher uses Oak.
And these are just the highlights…
For a more detailed look at how we’ve impacted teachers over the last year, dive into the full blog post: https://t.co/QNmavflmJn
.@OakNational chief @matthewhood explains why new data on the use of its resources shows that debates on teacher autonomy need to be more nuanced
https://t.co/EiKXssFFJl
Radio 4 even had a live parkour session in the studio, as Sarah Montague attempted to describe Gogoly Yao jumping over chairs...
We'll forgive them for getting @OakNational's name wrong, for such a wonderful bit of radio!
https://t.co/N1zhjH2Ahv
Oak Park Academy, a school that provides teaching resources for others, has devised a lesson for parkour - but could we see it as part of the national curriculum?
Gogoly Yao, a free running coach, explains the moves he would teach, as well as giving a demonstration 🏃♂️
#BBCWato
Can parkour and pickleball pique pupils’ passion for PE?
Great to see so much positive coverage of @OakNational's new curriculum plans.
As part of a broad and rigorous offer, we're putting a focus on arts, activity, online safety and digital skills
New curriculum plans aim to encourage children to stay active in later life as government also seeks to improve standards at “stuck” schools
🔓 This is free to read https://t.co/6EeQZmcPPb
We've released a whole set of new curriculum plans today. At the heart of a broad and rigorous offer, we're putting focus on:
🎨 Modern, contemporary artists to inspire creativity
🎾 New sports, from parkour to pickleball, to get kids active
💻 Online safety and digital skills
Today at @OakNational, we’ve made available something we don’t think has ever been done before:
A high-quality, openly licenced model of the entire national curriculum, right down to the lesson level.
Some more info on this is below 🧵...
On Tuesday we hosted a sneak preview event to show some of the education community just what Aila can do. It was a pleasure to have @pepediiasio from @ASCL_UK join us for an excellent panel discussion.
One of our missions at @OakNational is to give teachers their Sunday nights back.
To help, today we launch Aila, our AI-powered lesson assistant.
Our aim has been to develop a product that keeps teachers in control of planning, whilst lightening their load
🧵on what we've done
Our beta AI lesson assistant launches today.
I've been lucky to see just how much thought, educational expertise and testing with teachers has gone into this. All to create an AI tool that keeps the teacher in charge while genuinely lightening the load.
Take a look 👇
Whether it’s creating bespoke resources or helping you tailor content to your class, Aila can transform your lesson prep. Aila will help speed things along —giving you more time to bring your lessons to life.
.@OakNational has developed its new AI tool with the aim of ensuring that teachers can create lesson plans without having to worry about the safety or accuracy of content, writes @johnrobeds
https://t.co/y4l7VVE7xQ