Daniel Budd

Educator, Speaker, Author, Researcher & Learning Designer. Writer of Swift. Lover of Design.

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

Big weekend in Vietnam for SSIS Conference. Great catching up with old "internet friends" and making some new friends. Same time next year!

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

"Cross-curricular learning" is one of the most over-promised ideas in education.
We stick a coding lesson next to a math lesson and call it integration. The Transfer Illusion (Kirschner, Hendrick & Heal) is exactly this ... assuming students will spot the bridge between two domains just because we put them in the same room.
They won't. Not without us.

In my Geometry Playground, my students write Swift code that draws polygons. The turn angle in the code is the exterior angle of the shape. Same idea, two languages. But that connection is invisible until I stand at the front and model it - narrating my thinking, drawing the link out loud, showing where one becomes the other.
Transfer isn't a hope. It's a teaching move - https://t.co/GcSiBYPQ6y
The "cross curricular" label is cheap. The modelling that makes it real is not.

#Pedagogy #Mathematics #ComputerScience @XpatEducator @dylanwiliam

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Yes, just having students “use AI to study” hurts learning (a helpful assistant is not a tutor), but using AI prompted to act like a tutor, especially with teacher support, seems to have large positive effects on learning in randomized trials. https://t.co/0HtjGC8eU0

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

@daniquanti @MushtaqBilalPhD Evidence so far suggests yes … recent EEG (electroencephalography) work on digital pens shows similar patterns to ink pens, both distinct from keyboards. The mechanism appears to be the handwriting motion itself, not the paper.

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

@MushtaqBilalPhD @Mrs_Afraoui Mueller & Oppenheimer (2014) found similar effects in adults; Morehead et al. (2019) failed to replicate; Fiorella & Mayer (2017) found laptop note-takers did better after review; Urry et al. (2021) found the opposite. There’s no consensus.

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

"Cross-curricular learning" is one of the most over-promised ideas in education.
We stick a coding lesson next to a math lesson and call it integration. The Transfer Illusion (Kirschner, Hendrick & Heal) is exactly this ... assuming students will spot the bridge between two domains just because we put them in the same room.
They won't. Not without us.

In my Geometry Playground, my students write Swift code that draws polygons. The turn angle in the code is the exterior angle of the shape. Same idea, two languages. But that connection is invisible until I stand at the front and model it - narrating my thinking, drawing the link out loud, showing where one becomes the other.
Transfer isn't a hope. It's a teaching move - https://t.co/GcSiBYPQ6y
The "cross curricular" label is cheap. The modelling that makes it real is not.

#Pedagogy #Mathematics #ComputerScience @XpatEducator @dylanwiliam

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

@FarzaTV @FarzaTV really loving this from an Education point of view (thinking of a teacher assistant). Have you played with Apple Foundation models or newly released Gemma 4 to reduce overhead costs?
Thought it would ask before I play myself

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

Hey, I'm open-sourcing Clicky.

Go forth into the wild and build the future of education and the future of AI interfaces, my friends. I'm happy to have given a spark.

Enjoy!

https://t.co/x1gR0dib1p

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

I built this thing called Clicky.

It's an AI teacher that lives as a buddy next to your cursor.

It can see your screen, talk to you, and even point at stuff, kinda like having a real teacher next to you.

I've been using it the past few days to learn Davinci Resolve, 10/10.

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

My 7-year-old daughter and I built a @Roblox game together using @claudeai as our coding partner. She designed it, we prompted it, and Fruit Towers came to life. Made by kids, for kids - under our new indie studio Pixel Paws Studios. Come play!
https://t.co/20h4UDeehR

[dominik kundel @dkundel]

I built a new plugin! You can now trigger Codex from Claude Code!

Use the Codex plugin for Claude Code to delegate tasks to Codex or have Codex review your changes using your ChatGPT subscription.

Start by installing the plugin:
https://t.co/u6gBpArwBc

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

@deepakpshukla1 @DarioAmodei Yes more and more everyday. Most recently I’ve been playing with Blender MCP to create assets for game development

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

@DarioAmodei Google just launched Gemini for personal users in Hong Kong (no VPN, no workaround). It topped the App Store in days.
As an international school educator here, Claude is the tool I build my work around. But I can only access it through a VPN. Hong Kong SAR isn’t mainland China.
7.5 million people are waiting. @AnthropicAI

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

Congratulations to folks who won this year's Swift Student Challenge! Whether you made it as a distinguished winner or not, you took part and brought something fresh into the world – good job! 🙌

[nakasyou @nakasyou0]

ちょっと雑なとこあるけど爆速でめっちゃ UX いい、あとかっこいい

[Aaron Busch @tripperhead]

Google Gemini AI is now available in Hong Kong.

https://t.co/SAMnIcsN1W

The Gemini phone app is not available in the Hong Kong app stores yet. For Android users, Gemini is available as a digital assistant.

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

My SwiftUI agent skill has now passed 1,000 GitHub stars in just two days – I appreciate you all so much! 🙇‍♂️ So many people have replied to say it has already helped Codex, Claude Code, and other agents find and fix problems in just a few minutes. https://t.co/Ns8blrFLuq

[Lena Hall ✈️ NYC @lenadroid]

This is wild 🤯

My 5-year-old just built his FIRST GAME ever with Codex using only dictation mode.

He wanted a game where you type in a word and transform into any character you want to be ✨ so he dictated it to Codex.

Then he upgraded it to a game where that character jumps and collects coins.

Hello World to the youngest AI engineer ever❤️‍🔥 @OpenAI @OpenAIDevs

Codex needs an interactive voice mode ASAP

[Daniel Budd @danielbbudd]

@Cyclebrity @minchoi Figures crossed for WWDC26 … Xcode lite or a SPG update would be awesome for the classroom as well!

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Did Apple just kill every iOS vibe coding app?

Apple just dropped Xcode 26.3 with agentic coding.

Claude Code + Codex are now built into Xcode.

And with MCP support.

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🧩 WORKED EXAMPLES! In this week’s edition of ⚗️DistillED, I unpack what worked examples are, why they reduce cognitive load, and how they help students move from watching expert thinking to applying it independently in the classroom.

Have a read: https://t.co/9KbUJK4TZS