📚❇️ Curriculum must be at the heart of AI innovation - thoughts from our interim CEO John Roberts 📚❇️

Read in @tes, and check out 🧵 for a preview:

As I end my time at Oak, we’ve achieved a lot but there’s still a lot to do.

I wish Oak’s new interim CEO @johnrobeds.bsky.social, the team and the wider partnership the best as they continue this work and thank them and everyone who has used Oak and helped out on this rollercoaster ride!

📣 John Roberts @johnrobeds.bsky.social has been announced as our new interim CEO. He’ll take on the role from Matt Hood @matthewhood.bsky.social, who has led Oak for the last five years, when he steps down at the end of March.

💭 You know your pupils best, so think of us as your starting point. All our resources can be adapted to your class, location or approach. And using our intuitive AI tools, you can tailor anything – or create something new – in minutes.

Meet Aila, our AI lesson assistant: oaknat.uk/3E5GcYO

📚Get to know our maths curriculum! 

All our curriculum plans come with an explainer, to help you confidently describe why you teach what you teach. 

For maths, that includes questions like these!

💡At @oaknational.bsky.social we’ve recently published a research paper with MIT Open Learning.

Ensuring AI-generated lesson content is high-quality and pedagogically sound is a challenge, and as educators, we must ensure that the content we use in the classroom is trustworthy.

AI is making headlines once again, and Teacher Tapp has the latest data! 🤖

69% of teachers have used AI for school work at some point, with 31% having done so just last week!

Have you ever used docs.new, slides.new or even sheets.new?

Well, if you’re a teacher, now you have lessons.new 🎉

💡 Do you want to know more about the pedagogical thinking behind @OakNational's new AI assistant, Aila, and how that's baked into the prompting that drives the LLM to generate lesson content and resources?

👀 Then there's two places to look:

Can we give teachers their Sunday nights back?

We’ve just released Oak National Academy’s new AI lesson assistant, Aila.

Helping build lessons and resources, without removing the teacher from the process.

It’s free for teachers to use in the UK.

Give it a go: lessons.new

🎧 I recently spoke to the Ed-technical podcast about Oak National Academy and our AI experiments.

We discuss how to optimise existing LLMs for quality in education use, subjects where that can be more challenging, and techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation that can be used to good effect.

🎧 I recently spoke to the Ed-technical podcast about Oak National Academy and our AI experiments.

We discuss how to optimise existing LLMs for quality in education use, subjects where that can be more challenging, and techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation that can be used to good effect.

Blue sky indeed