Graham Stanley
@grahamstanley.bsky.social
Teacher Development Lead for the British Council. Teachers Talk Radio show host. M.Ed ELT & Educational Technology. Books: Language Learning with Technology (CUP); Remote Teaching (British Council); Digital Play: Computer games and language aims (Delta)
On Wednesday at 21:00 UK time, on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social I'll be talking to Iain Cook-Bonney from New Zealand about his innovative work in primary schools.
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
On Wednesday at 21:00 UK time, on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social I'll be talking to Iain Cook-Bonney from New Zealand about his innovative work in primary schools.
Reposted by Graham Stanley
Last week on Wonkhe: An independent commission has published a plan for digital skills badging and a national digital skills wallet. Patrina Law explains what higher education stands to gain from getting involved
Higher education should back a national digital skills wallet
An independent commission has published a plan for digital skills badging and a national digital skills wallet. Patrina Law explains what higher education stands to gain from getting involved
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November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: An independent commission has published a plan for digital skills badging and a national digital skills wallet. Patrina Law explains what higher education stands to gain from getting involved
Communities where decision-making, content creation, and governance are distributed among members rather than controlled by a central authority: tchop.io/resources/gl...
Decentralised communities | tchop™
Communities where decision-making, content creation, and governance are distributed among members rather than controlled by a central authority.
tchop.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Communities where decision-making, content creation, and governance are distributed among members rather than controlled by a central authority: tchop.io/resources/gl...
Assessment framework to guide the fair and ethical use of AI aiassessmentscale.com
AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)
Resources and information for the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)
aiassessmentscale.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Assessment framework to guide the fair and ethical use of AI aiassessmentscale.com
Recent research by the Global Partnership for Education (2024) shows a clear link between education and peace: “Countries with better educated populations tend to be more peaceful and stable, essential conditions for national economic development...” www.globalpartnership.org/what-we-do/p...
Peace and security | Global Partnership for Education
Quality education for all is one of the best investments to counter political, economic and displacement risks.
www.globalpartnership.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Recent research by the Global Partnership for Education (2024) shows a clear link between education and peace: “Countries with better educated populations tend to be more peaceful and stable, essential conditions for national economic development...” www.globalpartnership.org/what-we-do/p...
Designing Escape Rooms as Experiential Learning oeb.global/oeb-insights...
When the Puzzle Is the Training: Designing Escape Rooms as Experiential Learning – OEB Insights
oeb.global
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Designing Escape Rooms as Experiential Learning oeb.global/oeb-insights...
Presentation of key findings: Teaching and Learning International Survey 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZN... The #OECD #TALIS) "offers unique insights into the state of teaching across the world, with over 280,000 teachers taking part in 17,000 schools across 55 education systems."
Presentation of key findings: Teaching and Learning International Survey 2024
YouTube video by EduSkills OECD
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October 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Presentation of key findings: Teaching and Learning International Survey 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZN... The #OECD #TALIS) "offers unique insights into the state of teaching across the world, with over 280,000 teachers taking part in 17,000 schools across 55 education systems."
Join me on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social at 21:00 (UK time) tonight for an exploration of generative AI and writing.
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Join me on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social at 21:00 (UK time) tonight for an exploration of generative AI and writing.
Which AIs to use when? open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
What AI to use in late 2025
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Which AIs to use when? open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
Claude Skills - an interesting development in the generative AI space simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
simonwillison.net
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Claude Skills - an interesting development in the generative AI space simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
LLMs make great assistants but ineffective teachers open.substack.com/pub/drphilip...
TeachLM: insights from a new LLM fine-tuned for teaching & learning
Six key takeaways, including what the research tells us about how well AI performs as an instructional designer
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
LLMs make great assistants but ineffective teachers open.substack.com/pub/drphilip...
If you missed today's @ttradioofficial.bsky.social show, featuring Manisha Parmar talking about sustainable green education, you can listen back to the recording here: www.ttradio.org/listenback/e...
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you missed today's @ttradioofficial.bsky.social show, featuring Manisha Parmar talking about sustainable green education, you can listen back to the recording here: www.ttradio.org/listenback/e...
The new Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) offers unique insights into the state of teaching across the world, with over 280,000 teachers taking part in 17,000 schools across 55 education systems. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Results from TALIS 2024
The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the world’s largest survey of teachers and principals. In 2024, educators from 55 education systems provided information about what they ...
www.oecd.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The new Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) offers unique insights into the state of teaching across the world, with over 280,000 teachers taking part in 17,000 schools across 55 education systems. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Exploring the Landscape of EFL Teachers' Professional Development in China: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring the Landscape of EFL Teachers’ Professional Development in China: A Scoping Review
While Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for all teachers is a key attribute of China’s educational landscape, there are few studies that have been published in English on in-service English...
www.tandfonline.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Exploring the Landscape of EFL Teachers' Professional Development in China: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What makes something 'go viral'? thebulletin.org/2025/10/new-...
From spark to inferno: New model inspired by forest fires could explain why some ideas go viral
A new model shows that the ability of an idea to shift in intensity during transmission is what can lead to the viral patterns seen online.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What makes something 'go viral'? thebulletin.org/2025/10/new-...
Join me on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social on Wednesday night (9pm UK time) for a conversation about the work Manisha Parmar does with her schoolchildren around sustainable green education: www.ttradio.org/listen-live
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Join me on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social on Wednesday night (9pm UK time) for a conversation about the work Manisha Parmar does with her schoolchildren around sustainable green education: www.ttradio.org/listen-live
Reposted by Graham Stanley
Deliberate ignorance is "the conscious decision to forgo available, potentially highly relevant information." The authors seem to align deliberate ignorance w/critical ignoring, but the "highly relevant information" part != critically ignoring unhelpful information. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
More than incurious: the development of deliberate ignorance
In an information-rich world the ability to choose not to know is an important cognitive tool. But what are the developmental origins of deliberate ignorance? We identify a selection of cognitive…
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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Deliberate ignorance is "the conscious decision to forgo available, potentially highly relevant information." The authors seem to align deliberate ignorance w/critical ignoring, but the "highly relevant information" part != critically ignoring unhelpful information. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
What causes low academic performance of urban children? larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/w...
What Causes Low Academic Performance of Urban Children? Teacher Expectations of Their Students or Residential Segregation? (Richard Rothstein)
“Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the auth…
larrycuban.wordpress.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
What causes low academic performance of urban children? larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/w...
"A teacher tells a student not to use AI in a research assignment. But when the student does a browser search, an AI-generated explanation pops up unprompted. Has the student just cheated?"
larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
What Counts as Cheating with AI? Teachers Are Grappling with How to Draw the Line (Howard Blume and Jocelyn Gecker)
This article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2025. Both authors are journalists. A teacher tells a student not to use AI in a research assignment. But when the student does a brows…
larrycuban.wordpress.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"A teacher tells a student not to use AI in a research assignment. But when the student does a browser search, an AI-generated explanation pops up unprompted. Has the student just cheated?"
larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
How does artificial intelligence compare to human feedback? A meta-analysis of performance, feedback perception, and learning dispositions? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How does artificial intelligence compare to human feedback? A meta-analysis of performance, feedback perception, and learning dispositions
This exploratory meta-analysis synthesises current research on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated feedback compared to traditional human-provided feedback. Drawing on 41 st...
www.tandfonline.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How does artificial intelligence compare to human feedback? A meta-analysis of performance, feedback perception, and learning dispositions? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you missed the show, you can catch up here: www.ttradio.org/listenback/e...
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you missed the show, you can catch up here: www.ttradio.org/listenback/e...
The short answer: Yes. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The short answer: Yes. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Join me tonight at 9pm UK time on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social for a conversation with Noha Omaya Shabana in Cairo, Egypt about how research impacts the classroom and the hidden curriculum.
October 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Join me tonight at 9pm UK time on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social for a conversation with Noha Omaya Shabana in Cairo, Egypt about how research impacts the classroom and the hidden curriculum.
The importance of context www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Effective context engineering for AI agents
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The importance of context www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
The current landscape of CLIL in primary education in France www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications... An exploratory study into the landscape of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in French primary education. #ELT #CLIL
The current landscape of CLIL in primary education in France
An exploratory study into the landscape of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in French primary education.
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The current landscape of CLIL in primary education in France www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications... An exploratory study into the landscape of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in French primary education. #ELT #CLIL