As I end my time at Oak, we’ve achieved a lot but there’s still a lot to do.

I wish Oak’s new interim CEO @johnrobeds.bsky.social, the team and the wider partnership the best as they continue this work and thank them and everyone who has used Oak and helped out on this rollercoaster ride!

Very kind! Thanks Josh.

💭 You know your pupils best, so think of us as your starting point. All our resources can be adapted to your class, location or approach. And using our intuitive AI tools, you can tailor anything – or create something new – in minutes.

Meet Aila, our AI lesson assistant: oaknat.uk/3E5GcYO

There’s even a @teachertapp.bsky.social citation in there!

And access the code and tools used on @github.com

github.com/oaknational/...

You can read more the paper at:

aiopeneducation.pubpub.org/pub/i36sncz8/

These findings have been used to improve the quality of Oak’s AI Lesson Assistant, Aila in systematic and evidenced ways.

The evaluation tools used to do this have been openly licensed so that others can replicate the methodology and build their own benchmarks to ensure quality.

It’s something that I hope the sector takes seriously in the new AI assisted world.

We have;

• evaluated ~5000 ai generated lessons across 5 subjects and 24 quality benchmarks
• compared the AI evaluations to expert teacher evaluations

The paper focussed on the quality of multiple choice questions (MCQs)

This is something that we’ve been looking at carefully, particularly as the use of AI products in education proliferates, with little benchmarking on pedagogical quality available.

I’m just a fun guy

Very efficiently packed. Not mushroom left in there.

You can then try Aila against these parameters, and see how it performs.

lessons.new

Let us know if you have any thoughts, or any prompt improvements. We can test them!

And then, if you're a little more technical, and want to inspect the actual prompt, you'll find it in Oak's GitHub. The link below, is to one of the main prompts, but it's broken down into multiple parts, so worth navigating around the file structure.

github.com/oaknational/...

Firstly, the blog on the pedagogical thinking where we explain the curriculum principles, and the research baked in.

www.thenational.academy/blog/the-ped...

Thanks Eylan. Maths is one of the trickier subjects to do really well here, but we’ll do some subject by subject improvements soon, including Maths as a priority.

It’s not just pasta; coffee, gelato, pizza. They do many of the things that are easy to do average, exceptionally. And the red wine is exceptional too, but don’t say that to the French.