Roger Kennett

The first step preparing for the new syllabus (before program writing) is mapping the Working Scientifically outcomes against the content points. Unlike the 2017 syllabus, this has not been done for us, so I set out to achieve this over the break. The obvious tool is a spreadsheet because it's nice to have formulas, automated formatting, etc. However, the syllabus equations don't paste into cells which is a huge pain. Doing a copy and paste leaves you with lots of meaningless content points...

We want our exam questions to be instruments; instruments that validly probe student understanding and authentically reflect the degree of development of their scientific schemas. This is a bigger challenge that we might first realise, but let's keep this aspiration as our first priority. How can science help us write better science exams? One of the best evidence-validated and sometimes counterintuitive theory of learning is Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). There are many aspects to CLT such as...

Fascimilie of a friend Richard Dawkins recently declared " AI is conscious!", and unintentionally demonstrated a risk of AI that hasn't yet got the attention it deserves. Much of the transcript with the Anthropic's AI Claude originally posted was removed, but you can still find it here. I mention this because the source material is enlightening, revealing not only an ego susceptible to flattery, but also an algorithm relentlessly seducing its prey. The mathematical model that is a Large...