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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · Jan 24

ChatGPT-ed myself, out of curiosity. Here's what I got:

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 7h

Thoughts about current #ELT #InstructionalDesign practices.

How far would you agree or disagree?

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely! Back in the late 1990s, John Truscott kicked off a debate on low efficacy of explicit form focused corrective feedback on students' writing & speaking. Even though the lit reviews & evidence he presented were incontrovertible, the debate still continues to this day. Nothing has changed!

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

New meta-analysis finds AI feedback performs about as well as human feedback, but I think this is more to do with how poor human feedback has been is rather than how good AI feedback is. In other words, the bar is quite low here. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 4d

There is a lot of talk about LLMs revolutionizing education. But once you get into it, things are not that trivial.

Here, we summarize the questions that emerge when trying to implement AI Tutors nationwide.

Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

#edusky

authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltdo4sIRv...

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I can't spell Ofsted!

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 4d

A personal bane of mine is being required to attend ineffective & therefore pointless & time-wasting CPD sessions.

The UK's regulator, Ofstead, is now targeting such wasteful CPD: schoolsweek.co.uk/goodbye-cpd-...

Ofsted is helping to put a welcome end to ineffective CPD

The new framework ushers in a new era of professional learning - and that's so much more than a semantic shift

schoolsweek.co.uk

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 4d

As a highly experienced & well-informed teacher, I'm fully capable of directing my own professional development & seeking help with that. Some degree of support from employers would, of course, be of great benefit.

Ofsted is helping to put a welcome end to ineffective CPD

The new framework ushers in a new era of professional learning - and that's so much more than a semantic shift

schoolsweek.co.uk

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 5d

My message to you in case I've been kidnapped & am messaging under coercion:

"I get all my most trustworthy scientific knowledge from Facebook, X, & LinkedIn."

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Jane Goodall 😭. Her contributions to our knowledge & what it means to be human or ape have made the world a better place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go...

Jane Goodall - Wikipedia

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 10d

Is a Noisy Classroom a Thinking Classroom? open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 10d

NEW BLOG POST
What’s happening in your mind when you write an essay? A look inside the writer’s thought processes

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 11d

A convincing article on why precision & specificity in formative (diagnostic) assessment matters by David Didau: daviddidau.substack.com/p/when-the-b...

When the bridge is down: how poor assessment creates needless struggle

Why mistaking noise for rigour and silence for low ability leaves the most vulnerable students stranded

daviddidau.substack.com

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 13d

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Transfer appropriate processing in language learning: A fundamental principle

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 14d

Great way to put personalisation & relevance:

"A curriculum should be a public inheritance, not a private playlist. Its test is not whether a child sees their reflection in every unit. It is whether, by the end, they can see further than they could before."

x.com/gilesboys/st...

Tony Giles on X: "A curriculum should be a public inheritance, not a private playlist. Its test is not whether a child sees their reflection in every unit. It is whether, by the end, they can see further than they could before." / X

A curriculum should be a public inheritance, not a private playlist. Its test is not whether a child sees their reflection in every unit. It is whether, by the end, they can see further than they could before.

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 17d

...which are based on observations of how we actually use language (e.g. from corpora & longitudinal developmental studies) & how it develops in the mind.

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 17d

If we want a model that captures the nature of language more richly & fully, we should try something more like Systemic Functional Linguistics or Cognitive Linguistics, ...

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 17d

Language is not a well-ordered (i.e. rule governed) system, but rather, a complex adaptive system. How else could it be so flexible, adaptable, evolve through generations of users, & express the complexities of being human?

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 17d

On popular (Chomskian) structural linguistics...
Well, yeah, we can make up any "rule" for language if we can find 2 or more examples. The trouble is that these "rules" are wrong at least 50% of the time if we observe actual language use in the real world.

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 18d

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Arguments for ELT publishing reform

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 21d

As an example, here's an educational psychologist's take on these questions:
Willingham, D. (2019). How to Teach Critical Thinking. NSW Department of Education. danielwillingham.com/uploads/5/0/...

danielwillingham.com

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 21d

- What is their definition of critical thinking?
- How does critical thinking develop in the mind?
- What specifically contributes to that development process?
- How would an LLM implement that without intervention from a teacher? (Because that's the proposition, right?)

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 21d

Lots of talk about using LLMS (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini) to teach critical thinking. However, we need to ask some important questions first:

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 22d

Rotherham, A. J., & Willingham, D. (2009). 21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead. Educational Leadership, 67(1), 16–21. www.ascd.org/el/articles/...

21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead

To work, the 21st century skills movement will require keen attention to curriculum, teacher quality, and assessment.

www.ascd.org

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 22d

With the latest EdTech industry hype cycle coming around, this time GenAI, it's worth 'rediscovering' this article that puts specifics to what the pundits are saying & examining what they're actually saying & claiming: