Becky Allen
@profbeckyallen.bsky.social
Co-founder and Chief Analyst, Teacher Tapp, surveying over 12,000 teachers every day.
Catching up with some reading and I think that the latter part of the day #EduSky discourse will be dominated by the edu White Paper so sharing a few things ahead of that. This blog by @profbeckyallen.bsky.social was a breath of fresh air. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
Curriculum Is a Localist Model of a Distributed Mind
The problem with dividing knowledge into pieces
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This is a well-written piece on how education should better cater to how knowledge actually exists in the brain.
Becky Allen@profbeckyallen.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
New on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
Curriculum Is a Localist Model of a Distributed Mind
The problem with dividing knowledge into pieces
profbeckyallen.substack.com
New post on Substack Durable Mastery: How to design for knowledge that survives profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/durable-ma...
Excellent description and explanation from @profbeckyallen.bsky.social of why all the 'moderation' exercises organised by Education Scotland and local authorities have largely been a huge waste of precious teacher time. 1/2 100assessment.substack.com/p/the-curric...
The Curriculum Ghost in the Data Machine
The hidden reason shared assessments fail in most secondary subjects
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Happy New Year everyone! Here's a new Substack post. It's partly about the regularities of instructional design. And partly about the work of @krisboulton.bsky.social... profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/regulariti...
Finally, a piece on whether AI can solve education's perennial problem of passing on the best instructional techniques by @profbeckyallen.bsky.social. The most thought-provoking blogs on AI and its impacts are coming from those in the education field. open.substack.com/pub/profbeck...
Will the Machine Ever Learn How to Teach?
How perfect memory won’t help if the machine cannot know when it is right
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Another Substack post on the future of AI in education. Reward Hacking the Classroom: Reinforcement learning wants to “teach to the test”, but that’s not what teachers do profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/reward-hac...
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New on my Substack: Will the Machine Ever Learn How to Teach? (I'm afraid it's a little on the long side...) substack.com/home/post/p-...
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Does Your Test Really Measure Attainment? When summed scores mislead and how IRT helps 100assessment.substack.com/p/does-your-... @head-teach.bsky.social
With news that triple science offer may become a requirement for schools, here are current arrangements from @teachertapp.bsky.social . teachertapp.com/articles/tri...
Hey #EduSkyPrimary. I had a little bit of influence into yesterday’s @teachertapp.bsky.social questions on levelled readers which are very topical right now so if you haven’t answered yet, I would be very grateful. 🙏 Really interested to see the results!
New blogpost from me: The Progress of EdTech Depends on Our Tolerance for Error profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-progre...
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Why Schools Don't Report Uncertainty in Test Scores 100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school... @head-teach.bsky.social
New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation. In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promis...
New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation. In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promis...
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Target Grades - Useful or Unhelpful? 100assessment.substack.com/p/target-gra... @head-teach.bsky.social
At lightening speed (for me), I've written up my talk from ResearchED this month. Can AI help with formative assessment? profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/can-ai-hel...
New from me. The Dangers of Diagnosis. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...
The dangers of diagnosis
Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…
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I know it’s just abridged and has to sound and it is swifty differentiated explained in the text. Alas: As long as we explain «AI» w/ human analogies of understanding, addressing or supporting, we keep ourselves from thinking it different. Worth reading the more complex text, #BlueLz. #lernenmitki
Carl Hendrick@carlhendrick.substack.com · 11mo ago*NEW* 1️⃣ Curriculum: Does the AI understand your subject the way your best teachers do? 2️⃣ Instruction: Is “adaptivity” just pacing tweaks, or does it genuinely address misconceptions? 3️⃣ Assessment: Does AI support teacher judgment, not replace it? carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ai-in-scho...
New on 100% Assessment: The Trouble with Progress Reports... The case for and against telling parents whether students are making progress. 100assessment.substack.com/p/the-troubl... @head-teach.bsky.social
New on 100% Assessment Substack: Should Subjects Be Required to Report Attainment on a Common Scale?https://100assessment.substack.com/p/should-subjects-be-required-to-report @head-teach.bsky.social
Should Subjects Be Required to Report Attainment on a Common Scale?
Why there is no perfect way to report attainment to students and parents
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I’m really looking forward to my ResearchEd National talk this year: 'Of Gods and ideas: how intelligence became artificial’. I’m going to chart how our conceptions of learning have evolved (or degraded) over three millennia — from communing with gods to acquiring and organising data.
Enjoyed interviewing @profbeckyallen.bsky.social for @ttradioofficial.bsky.social on AI and Schooling last month. The discussion threw up lots to think about (1/8)
Today @teachertapp.bsky.social and School Dash publish an update to their teacher labour market report, showing showing job adverts down 27% on 18/19 and -36% on last year.
Today @teachertapp.bsky.social and School Dash publish an update to their teacher labour market report, showing showing job adverts down 27% on 18/19 and -36% on last year.
New on 100% Assessment with @head-teach.bsky.social: The Discrimination Dilemma - Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%. As always, subscribe for weekly updates. 100assessment.substack.com/p/the-discri...
The Discrimination Dilemma
Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%
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New on Substack: How reliable does an assessment need to be? @head-teach.bsky.social 100assessment.substack.com/p/how-reliab...
How Reliable Does an Assessment Need to Be?
Making Sense of Noise, Judgement, and Purpose in Assessment
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