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Is there a place for handwriting in a digital world?
Handwriting is educational marmite; as teachers, we love it or we loathe it entirely. Regardless of our personal standpoints, it is a key principle that features in every year group within the Primary National Curriculum. Ergo, we teach it — but, in an increasingly digital world, can handwriting justify its place in the curriculum? KassiElla Rankine believes that it can.
KassiElla Rankine
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How to train AI to mark a piece of writing part 2: 'Science-ing' it
The missing word In June 2024, I wrote about how we’re training AI to mark writin g. Reading it now in February 2025, the most important...
Hannah Gillott
Feb 217 min read
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An honest conversation between KS2 and KS3 English teachers
The jump from Year 6 to Year 7 cannot be underplayed: pupils, teachers and parents are all wise to the fact that there will be a teething...
Hannah Gillott
Feb 119 min read
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Press Release: stylus chosen by Department for Education as a Contracts for Innovation provider
stylus has been chosen as one of the providers in the £994,000 Contracts for Innovation competition funded by the Department for Education.
Hannah Gillott
Jan 212 min read
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Marking is inaccurate — does it matter when our feedback makes the impact?
My very first September Inset day as a teacher was led by Dylan William — how’s that for a high bar? This was in 2011, and all staff...
Hannah Gillott
Sep 11, 20245 min read
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How to train AI to mark a piece of writing
It’s perhaps the ultimate goal: eliminate teacher workload by letting AI do all the marking. Even better, have the AI use all this data...
Hannah Gillott
Jun 4, 20246 min read
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The Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT Part 2: Image Generation
This is part two of a series for beginners in AI — if you missed part one, you can read it here In the first edition of this series, we...
Hannah Gillott
Mar 19, 20247 min read
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Apple's MM1: the game changer you haven't heard of
Apple’s MM1 — an absolute game changer for teachers. Heard of it? I’m not surprised. Apple has quietly released details about the work...
Dominic Bristow
Mar 18, 20245 min read
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AI and Accessibility — friend or foe?
AI is reshaping education: the chances are, in the last week, you’ve seen or heard colleagues talking about both the opportunities and...
Hannah Gillott
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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The Beginner’s Guide to Using ChatGPT in the Classroom — Part 1
AI is developing quickly, and if you’ve never used it before it can feel a little like trying to jump on board a moving train — one...
Hannah Gillott
Jan 19, 20245 min read
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Our goal for 2024: more feedback, less marking
Marking itself — the act of sitting down with a pen and writing comments on pupils’ work — is pointless, but for students to receive feedbac
Hannah Gillott
Jan 16, 20242 min read
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