David Monis-Weston
@informededucation.com
AI Lead @ PurposefulVentures.org; Co-lead of MathsHorizons.uk; Formerly Founder/CEO TeacherDevTrust.org; former physics/maths teacher, Trustee teachingawardstrust.com. 🏳️🌈 (he/him, cis) http://www.informededucation.com/about/
The anti-Muslim stuff at yesterday’s march was vile. Muslim friends, neighbours and colleagues should not have to watch scenes like that in London and wonder whether their city has a place for them. It should have been called out, loudly, by people on the march.
The Teacher Development Trust has announced that it will place its work, assets and intellectual property into the stewardship of the Chartered College of Teaching by June 2026. Read more in this blog: https://chartered.pulse.ly/pkizsql4dd
The CPD landscape has changed so much in the last decade and the TDT journey has taken us further than we ever imagined. When TDT began, CPD was barely on the policy agenda and now it’s central to government policy and leadership frameworks. I am so pleased to now see TDT… (cont)
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Thank you again to our brilliant Chair, Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE, to our co-leads Dr Helen Drury and David Monis Weston, and to all of our fantastic Executive Group. Their experience and insight has been truly invaluable. And this is not the end! More from Maths Horizons will be coming...
You can read the full report here: www.mathshorizons.uk/reports
REPORTS | Maths Horizons
Maths Horizons was launched in September 2024 to develop evidence, analysis and recommendations about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England. As an independent initiative, our work i...
mathshorizons.uk
We shared our 7 recommendations in the House of Lords in May, and we are delighted to be able to share the full report today.
Since September 2024, we have heard from hundreds of experts through interviews and consultation feedback, as well as roundtable discussions and school visits, as well as conducting large-scale polling through Public First.
Today, Maths Horizons publishes our full report about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England, and features in the Sunday Times here: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Students can pass maths GCSE without ‘some basic numeracy’
Independent experts are calling for curriculum change as too many pass the exam without essential skills
thetimes.com
🧮 'Our new report finds a surprising consensus: the curriculum is overcrowded and assessment doesn’t always reflect what matters' @mathshorizons.bsky.social leads - @informededucation.com and Dr Helen Drury schoolsweek.co.uk/the-maths-cu...
Curriculum and assessment must catch up with maths mastery
Our new report sets out what's wrong with our systems approach to maths and how to fix it
schoolsweek.co.uk
What a great post for science teachers to use.
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.Excellent video on whether retinol is a scam — there are only few low quality RCTs, why would one still believe in it? — and it’s so good, talking about various incentives and the role of mechanistic knowledge. I’ll have to think about how to fit this into teaching!> m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Z5...
Today, Maths Horizons is delighted to be publishing our report about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England. Our launch event at the House of Lords later today will present the following seven recommendations: (🧵1/7)
This means everything to me. I’m only alive today due the miracles of medical science and my donor’s (and donor’s family) unbelievable generosity to donate a liver to me in 2009 to cure a rare disease. #WorldLiverDay organdonation.nhs.uk
Really interesting article from @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social on the recent Supreme Court ruling. Solidarity to all my trans friends, family and everyone else on a tough week for you. 🏳️⚧️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is a very tough day for trans people – with a long legal road ahead to right this wrong | Robin Moira White
The supreme court judgment is contradictory and confused. And there seems no prospect of the Labour government sorting this out, says discrimination barrister Robin Moira White
theguardian.com
What if we’re asking the wrong question about ChatGPT in education? @thebandb.bsky.social on questions raised in my new article (with Dragan Gasevich, Hendrik Drachsler, and lead author @hassenrueb.bsky.social about #ChatGPT in education. #EduSky theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/04/14/w...
What if we’re asking the wrong question about ChatGPT in education?
The buzz around ChatGPT in education is real. You can’t scroll through LinkedIn or attend a conference without someone pitching yet another groundbreaking use case. Teachers experiment, students ti…
theeconomyofmeaning.com
The education sector is being urged to 'get involved' as the government launches a call for evidence as part of its national professional qualification (NPQ) framework review
DfE calls for evidence to aid NPQ review
The DfE is asking for 'recent, relevant and high-quality research' as it reviews its suite of NPQs
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And it obscures the real scandal - which is the totally inadequate child services support for kids post exclusion, the disaster of CAMHS, and the shocking lack of AP places (and in many places AP quality). Schools have a right to exclude - but excluded kids still have a right to an education.
“the greatest risk of this AI technological wave is that we heed the siren calls to remove things from the curriculum if “AI can do it” - this feels precisely the opposite of the right approach.”
Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.💻 The AI revolution in education will rest on solid teaching of knowledge and adapting to a new way of looking at metacognitive skills, argues @informededucation.com
💻 The AI revolution in education will rest on solid teaching of knowledge and adapting to a new way of looking at metacognitive skills, argues @informededucation.com
What schools need to get right on AI
Finding the right balance between embracing AI but ensuring it does not dominate is critical, argues David Monis-Weston
tes.com
If you work in general FE or a 6th form college, there's an exciting opportunity to join a new evidence partnership with the @theeef.bsky.social. Join this exciting work to support evidence use in 16 to 19 settings. Find out more here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-ope...
EEF opens applications for new evidence partnership for the 16-19…
Charity calls on general FE and sixth form colleges to apply for funded opportunity
educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk
➡️ How do we modify education to prepare for a world where more jobs will require fluent use of AI tools? ➡️How do we modify the way we plan and teach to make use of AI tools? @informededucation.com offers some answers ⬇️ www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
What schools need to get right on AI
Finding the right balance between embracing AI but ensuring it does not dominate and rob young people of necessary knowledge is critical, argues David Monis-Weston
tes.com
Great to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social now here on @bsky.app 👏
