Education

A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study: The 100% AI-written psychology essays weren’t detected as such by the graders, and they typically scored higher than the human ones.

Is Immersion the Best Way to Learn a Language?: It’s helpful, but only if you proactively engage with it.

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings: Years of insufficient budgets mean that buildings used for services like education, health and justice in the UK are literally crumbling.

£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support: Only 1.2% of council’s decisions to refuse to provide special educational funding for children are supported by courts when appealed.

2024-12-25: Councils spend over £100 million trying to avoid providing special educational needs support

2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …

2024-11-24: The board games the CIA uses to train its agents

2024-11-19: No religious liberty on offer from the Office of Religious Liberty

2024-06-22: Louisiana schools are now legally required to display the biblical Ten Commandments

2024-04-11: Started learning how to be a ‘Full-Stack Developer’ with Mimo.

2024-02-19: Apparently even more British children have smartphones than I’d have guessed. Ofcom data says …

2024-02-15: Another 'abuse of power': thousands of students wrongly deported from the UK for supposedly cheating on a test

2023-07-08: In “I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop” Adam Mastroianni makes the case …