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Part two: Can ChatGPT provide useful feedback?
Posted on January 30, 2023
This post was originally published on the No More Marking blog here. In my last post, I looked at the way ChatGPT’s written feedback is superficially impressive but not that helpful pedagogically. In…
Part one: Can ChatGPT provide feedback?
Posted on January 30, 2023
This post was originally published on the No More Marking blog here. In my previous post, I looked at how ChatGPT can provide relatively plausible marks for pieces of writing. It can also provide writ…
Can ChatGPT mark writing?
Posted on January 23, 2023
Can artificial intelligence systems mark more accurately than humans? Definitely, and they have been able to since the 1960s. In 1968, Dr Ellis Page developed Project Essay Grade (PEG), an automated e…
Research Ed 2022: Linking the curriculum & assessment
Posted on September 4, 2022
Here are my slides from September 2022’s Research Ed conference, and below is a short summary. DC Research ed 2022 If you’d like to read more, take a look at my books! If you’d like to take part in an…
How to teach with John Stuart Mill
Posted on May 15, 2022
This was originally posted on the Lib Dem Teacher blog in 2015. Let’s imagine you want to teach pupils what a verb is. You give them a brief definition, and a few examples of verbs being used in sent…
Is “learning loss” the right phrase?
Posted on September 8, 2020
This post can also be found on the No More Marking blog here. Over the last few months we have heard a lot of worries about the potential ‘learning loss’ being incurred by students who have missed sev…
What will COVID-19 change in education? And what will stay the same?
Posted on May 28, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I ran a webinar for the Teacher Development Trust where I asked everyone which statement they agreed with most. One: The educational responses to COVID-19 have been emergency in…
Laptops vs phones: the learning difference
Posted on May 7, 2020
Suppose you have a couple of hundred words of text that you would like your students to read. Does it make a difference if they read it on paper or on a screen? Yes. In this post here, from last Decem…
What does the research say about designing video lessons?
Posted on April 30, 2020
Education technology is really powerful. The problem is that it is just as easy to use that power badly as to use it well. You can see this with video lessons – clearly video allows you to do all kind…