Lachlan McFarlane

#MTBoS #ITeachMath #EdTech and #NBA among other things.

[Lachlan McFarlane @LachM]

Interesting poem about the challenge and power of collaboration in teaching from Peter McFarlane:

Your Attention Please (1981)

Sorry to interrupt
break the spell of activity in the room
but we have to arrive at a decision here
now
on what to do
on what to report to the others

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

The 2026 Winter Olympics figure skating ⛸️ free dance was scored by 9 judges

The French judge gave Beaudry & Cizeron 🇫🇷 a 137.45 but only gave Chock & Bates 🇺🇸 a 129.74

All other judges were relatively close in their two scores 🤔

Judge No. 4 was just in a bad mood overall

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

This perspective is even more insane.

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

NEW: IT'S NOT JUST THE UK!
🟢The UK is 14th OECD country to become coal-free.
🟢OECD coal power falls to less than HALF of its peak in 2007.
🟢All but 5 OECD countries have seen falls of at least 30% from peak coal power

(lovely dataviz from @C_BruceLockhart) 🧵

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Just fed the text of a book—Student Assessment, co-authored with Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher—into Google's Notebook LM (HT @emollick) and it produced a ten-minute podcast as well as a list of FAQs and a study guide. As Ethan says, "Seriously, just listen": https://t.co/nZLmXPYEYn

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

An interesting chart on the age distribution of athletes at the Paris Olympics.

Youngest- Skateboarding, gymnastics
Oldest- Equestrian, Triathlon

It's kind of wild how young swimming skews compared to its close athletic cousins (track, triathlon, cycling)

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

this will be one of my favorite moments ever not just because it secured gold. nor because of the difficulty. because he is the only person on earth who not passing to one of these two, wide open, is acceptable.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

A short summary of my basic principles of behaviour management. Feel free to share to anyone who might find it useful.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

President Venn Diagram https://t.co/5qCm9YLtX5

[Lachlan McFarlane @LachM]

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[Lachlan McFarlane @LachM]

“But sir, I only used AI a little bit. The Turnitin checker must have turned up another false positive.”
The actual submitted work:

[Deedy @deedydas]

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Electric vs Gas https://t.co/V6C6hlHtPj

[Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP]

What’s happening with artificial intelligence jobs? My speech to the ABS-RBA Human Capital Conference, based on joint research with @MattCowgill https://t.co/epR7glV0Ux #auspol #ausecon #ai

[Dan Meyer @ddmeyer]

Again, much of the conflict about math pedagogy is a disagreement about:
a) whether math is a set of secret codes or something accessible on a concrete, sensory level.
b) whether students have valuable knowledge to build on or not.
This all gets easier if you get that.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The Economist: "China has become a scientific superpower"

Rare for me - maybe even unprecedented - to praise the Economist but this might be the seminal article on the current status of China's scientific might.

Let's take a look 🧵
https://t.co/LufhWQGJBh

[Amie Albrecht - moved to 🦋 @nomad_penguin]

What an awesome #NoticeWonder prompt!

[ABC News @abcnews]

The ABC analyses the headshots and hairstyles of all AFL players in the 2024 season to definitively answer: is the mullet back? https://t.co/GMKgBx68dB

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

AI detection in school is a losing game.

AI detectors have high flaw positives & teacher intuition seems to work even worse: “Here we show in two experimental studies that novice and experienced teachers could not identify texts generated by ChatGPT among student-written texts.”

[AFLxScore @AFLxScore]

#AFLCrowsPower Final xScores:
ADEL 76 from expected 59.7 (+2 rushed)
PORT 46 from expected 68.8 (+2 rushed)

[Lachlan McFarlane @LachM]

The final xscore will be 🤣

[AFLxScore @AFLxScore]

#AFLCrowsPower Q3 29:29 xScore update:
ADEL 56 from expected 40.5
PORT 28 from expected 44.3
Current: ADEL Win 85.9% 19.7pts
Pregame: ADEL Win 35.6% -11.8pts
**Up to 1 shot(s) missing**

[Jamie Lane @Jamie_Lane]

With the eclipse approaching in less than a week, over half of U.S. cities along the eclipse's path are fully booked for the night of April 7th according to data from @airdna