Gavin Holden

Assistant Head - Teaching & Learning; history and economics teacher; online learning advocate. Tweets are all mine.

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

@Miss_Snuffy https://t.co/02DNkcvBYo

[Donald Clark @DonaldClark]

Interesting paper showing that Bjork’s desirable difficulty works. Tight integration of AI chatbot with ‘intelligent task sequencing’ delivers 'right material at exactly the right level matching the individual’s needs. In other words, AI tutors work better when they do more than just provide full and correct answers but encourage 'effort'. They sequenced tasks, choosing the next practice problem based on how student is doing, using data from chatbot conversations and their actual attempts to answer and do things.
Improved performance on the final in-person written exam by the equivalent to 6–9 months of additional schooling, without increasing instruction time or teacher workload. Interestingly, the benefits were especially strong for beginners and students in lower-tier schools. And this was with ChatGPT 4o, which is now regarded as a very old model.
https://t.co/0qy02JaT5h

[Secret School Business Manager @SecretBusMgr]

🧵 Academy Conference Complex
Is UK education sector drowning in a glut of summits, network events, "system leader" gatherings.
DfE, CST, MAT-run roadshows, calendar is full.
Is this school improvement, public sector’s biggest hidden jolly, or Sales on steroids?
We’re going in.

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

@ProudlyPastoral This is perfectly workable if you have the right structure. Have this position in my school. 5 non teaching HOYs, two pastoral KS leads (non-teaching), v.experienced asst SenCO and team, other non-teaching safeguarding roles. Beh. & s‘guarding excellent. It is a v. strategic role

[Edmund Barnett-Ward @Edmund_B_W]

In January, I called Ofsted’s chief inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, a liar for misrepresenting the coroner’s findings on Ruth Perry’s death. I’d like to be more conciliatory about his performance at Tuesday’s select committee hearing—but I can’t…

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

@SStarmeroid @Bboy_DEEP_C @Peston This is wrong - where did you get your figures from? Correct figures below

[Geoff Barton @RealGeoffBarton]

As so many others have said, this education blog from @Southgloshead - about the way we were, the way we are, the way we might be - is compelling. Thanks for writing it. https://t.co/Ikc8jeClps

[Fiona Millar @schooltruth]

After all these years , whoever would have thought it. Academy status makes no difference. ⁦Tempted to say we were right all along but what a spectacular waste of time and money. ⁦ https://t.co/96R33LD4LF

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

There has been much discussion about the likely failure of Thames Water in the last day or so. I’ve been looking at the accounts of England’s water companies for the last twenty years. My conclusion is that they are all environmentally insolvent. So, a thread…..

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

@MrARobbins @bennewmark @ArborEdu Does this work on an iPad?

[Harry Fletcher-Wood @HFletcherWood]

How effective is your retrieval questioning?

My latest post highlights five common mistakes to avoid

https://t.co/6UzPA31Zev

[Ofsted @Ofstednews]

This webinar explains what it means for pupils to get better in #history. This is based on the idea of quality in the history research review. Watch this video for insights into how you can consider what the principles might mean for your curriculums: https://t.co/Q7HkI664TK

[Geoff Barton @RealGeoffBarton]

"The results of this ballot show the strength of feeling among school leaders over the desperately difficult situation they are facing in recruiting & retaining staff, and operating their schools without adequate funding to do so”: my comments @ASCL_UK: https://t.co/41qhP7rYfM

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The most difficult thing about writing about economics at the moment is working out why it is that those who are in charge of our economy think that anything that they are doing makes any sense any more. A thread ...

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

I wrote a thread yesterday, and some people have said I did not go far enough in explaining why paying public sector workers inflation-matching pay rises is the right thing to do. They’re right, so let me explain the rest of it…..

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Rishi Sunak has claimed that to pay a 10% pay rise to all public sector employees will cost each household in the UK £1,000. This is what I call CRAp - which stands for a ‘completely rubbish approximation’ to the truth. Let me explain…a thread…

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

@Lisa7Pettifer I believe that it can avoid plagiarism detectors as it creates original work based on your own inputs - in theory it can learn from you and then you can ask it to write in your style.

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

Artificial intelligence is about to change education forever. This has blown my mind. I can get this AI app to produce any piece of work for me. When my students get hold of this …. #economics #edchat

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

I’d be really interested to see how other teachers are using this in their classrooms s well as thoughts from educators as to how we might respond to this.

#ukedchat #historyteacher #educhat #edchat #edtech #edleadership #learning

[Gavin Holden @holden_]

Outside of education, this is going to put millions of people out of work. Read more about it here:

https://t.co/AynoYeZV0l