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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 19/04/2025

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

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 10/02/2025

I drew this cartoon 7 years ago. Still feels relevant…

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 23/11/2024

So proud of my sister in law @bardymum.bsky.social whose _fabulous_ new children’s poetry book Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It has been recommended by @theguardian.com - it’s such a witty and clever book, thoroughly recommended.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 27/09/2024

This was *fantastic* - thoroughly recommended.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 26/09/2024

Just read a summary and it sounds interesting. My guess is that it’s possibly a bit contested too! Have you read Dehaene’s How We Learn? Fascinating account of the roles of top down and bottom up processing.

Cover of the book How We Learn: the new science of education and the brain, by Stanislas Dehaene

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 20/09/2024

In other news today I’m delighted to join @headsroundtable.bsky.social as an advisor.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 19/09/2024

Great to be here tonight at an NFER, meeting school, trust and sector leaders and discussing sector challenges and research.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 05/09/2024

Lovely little puzzle. Found on Threads shared by www.threads.net/@tjtt123

The image illustrates a puzzle. A 3-digit number X, whose digits are all different, when multiplied by 3 gives a 3 digit number Y whose digits are all the same. The last digit of X is the same as all the digits in Y.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 23/08/2024

Well, it is an underrepresentation and the stats on progression are certainly concerning. Hard to argue there isn't a significant disparity and a significant issue, I would suggest.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 22/08/2024

Bloody hell this is good. Harrowing. And she certainly has a strong story to tell about the “pens debate”! Still only halfway - what an absorbing read.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 15/08/2024

I’m getting this - but I’d love to read this!

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 15/08/2024

Quick tip - seen a long YouTube video and wondering if it's worth the effort? Go into the <more> part of the description, click 'transcript' and highlight+copy+paste the text into Claude.AI and ask it to summarise in long-form bullets with quotes. Bingo.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 14/08/2024

10 years ago! This tweet sparked an extraordinary fortnight of TV and radio appearances which let to me setting up OutTeacher, a network for sharing stories and ideas about being out in the classroom that later became LGBTed.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 13/08/2024

Repost with the first album that you bought with your own money.

Cassette box of the album T’Pau titled Bridge of Spies

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 11/08/2024

What a delight to see the extraordinary Sifan Hassan sporting her hijab in a beautiful and gentle critique of France’s very weird ban on them for its own athletes. 🇳🇱

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 10/08/2024

First really decent allotment haul of the year, with a little help of generosity from our lovely allotment neighbour.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 09/08/2024

Initially, 32% of ChatGPT hints contained errors. Researchers used a "self-consistency" technique to reduce this: generating multiple answers and choosing the most common one. This dropped error rates to near 0% for algebra and 13% for statistics. 🧵(4/5)

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 09/08/2024

Worth noting: participants were Mechanical Turk workers, not traditional students. Still, results suggest ChatGPT has potential as an educational tool. Study used GPT-3.5 with remarkably simple prompts - just the math problem text itself. 🧵(3/5)

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 09/08/2024

The study showed ChatGPT hints led to a 17% learning gain, statistically significant compared to the control group. Human tutor hints resulted in an 11.62% gain (not statistically significant vs control). Both hint types were equally effective. 🧵(2/5)

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 09/08/2024

Interesting paper from @zpardos and @ShreyaB82657013, "ChatGPT-generated help produces learning gains equivalent to human tutor-authored help on mathematics skills" that finds ChatGPT can be as effective as human tutors for math help. 🧵(1/5)

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 11/01/2024

I'm looking forward to speaking about "AI for Teacher Development: Exploring possibilities and tools" at the World Education Summit, on the Training Stage, Thursday 21st March. #WorldEdSummit worldedsummit.com

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 01/01/2024

Amazing family New Year’s Day walk just outside Amsterdam

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 30/10/2023

Very proud to see Teacher Development Trust on this list of organisations offering equal parental leave. TDT offers 6 months fully paid for maternity, paternity and adoption leave for employees with us 2+ years. www.linkedin.com/posts/elliot...

A list of 74 organisations offering equal paid leave, including ABDRN, Aviva, Bain & Company, Burberry, Deutsche Bank, E.On, Goldman Sachs, HP, John Lewis, Mastercard, Novartis, Pinterest, Sony music, Teacher Development Trust, TSB Bank, Vodafone and many more.

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