Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social
Teacher, researcher, writer, mostly interested in the power of education to transform lives and how to do it better.
Going through my Downloads folder I found a study by Babu and Mendro from 2003's AERA conference. They found that low achievers benefitted greatly from having more effective teachers for three years, but were less likely to get them:
December 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
"AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably": go.nature.com/3O9RHAa
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November 16, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Nice counterbalanced study of 2nd graders learning 3 and 4 times tables comparing recitation and retrieval (with flash cards). Spoiler alert: retrieval is better: bit.ly/3A4qhIN
October 28, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Just tracked down this, from Abraham Lincoln, in 1832:
October 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM
I asked ChatGPT4o to give me the data from this graph in CSV format. It replied "It appears that the file you uploaded is an image. I cannot directly extract the numerical data (blue crosses) from the image alone." I asked the free version of ClaudeAI to do the same, and it gave me the data I wanted
September 11, 2024 at 3:02 PM
I asked ChatGPT4o to represent the data in a table in the form of a bar chart. Here are the table and the chart:
August 30, 2024 at 4:14 PM