Why is “What Year Are You In?” Is One of the Hardest Questions in Education Imagine two students. One lives in Dublin. The other lives in Tokyo. They’re the same age. They’re both studying mathematics, science and English. Both are preparing for university. So they’re at the same educational stage… …aren’t they? Not necessarily. Ask someone in Ireland what year …
When you build an AI enrichment pipeline, the default temptation is to automate the output. Suggestions go in, classifications come out, humans correct errors when they surface. It’s faster to build and faster to run. . It’s also wrong — at least for a system where the classification decides what a learner can find. . What the pipeline actually does …
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about a simple question: Why do so many educational systems still feel fragmented? Not lacking content. Not lacking AI. Not lacking platforms. Fragmented. A learner discovers something interesting… …and immediately hits invisible boundaries: different systems disconnected workflows incompatible standards isolated learning records approval bottlenecks inaccessible pathways The deeper …
Though Educational Data Mining (EDM) has been around for a long while making the most of data has been a challenge. This article explores how to enrich data sources to enable better mining and gain deeper insights. Cheat Sheet Ok, so you don’t want to read the whole article… you are busy with your EDM Data Enrichment. What are …
Precise vs Imprecise. I was privileged recently to be invited to deliver some tutorials in Secondary School Physics. Bracing for the inevitable statement of “I’ll never use this in real life.” I wanted to have something prepared. In this article, I try to explain to my teenage self why I would study precise and imprecise subjects. Some people really hate …
Languageizer is a tool available on the WhereWeLearn platform. https://wherewelearn.com/forfun/languageizer-options.php Languageizer uses modern browser technology to help in the learning of languages by combining basic word lists with a browser’s SpeechSynthesis. It uses the fundamentals of speaking a language and modern browser technology to provide a free language learning tool. Current Languageizer and Language Projects on WhereWeLearn N.B. These …
QR Codes or Quick Response Codes bring technology content into the physical world. Yet how can you use them for training? Having worked in a strict governance environment for years, finding ways of reminding people of governance was always challenging. Navigating through piles of documentation to find the one relevant paragraph in a timely fashion is even harder. QR Codes …
Mindful Writing is a new approach and tool which addresses a common learning challenge presented to educators when moving role plays to an electronic format. I recently had to address a challenge around Role Plays in an eLearning and distance learning environment. The standard solution was to video tape the interactions and put the entire recording of the video in …
Democratisation of Learning In a presentation recently a learned scholar dropped the phrase a true “Democratisation of Learning”. I wanted to better understand the expression’s application from an academic perspective and how it applied to the work I was presenting. Firstly the term it is not the study of Democracy but instead the principles of democracy as applied to learning. …
Pretraining is a departure from standard HR practices which greatly enhances the recruitment process. So how do you implement Pretraining for your business? Usually associated with Psychology, pretraining is training which takes place prior to another activity, specifically in advance of an experiment or test. When used in the context of HR it means to train someone before they are …