Educator, Speaker, Author, Researcher & Learning Designer. Writer of Swift. Lover of Design.
Hong Kong
Joined November 2009
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Daniel Budd retweeted
The Most AI-Proof Assessment We Have And It Costs Nothing
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📣 Good news — I'm running a FREE, 45-minute online PD session: Hard Thinking for Everyone.
If, as Daniel Willingham reminds us, "memory is the residue of thought," the real question in any lesson is whether all students are attentive and cognitively engaged — or whether we're relying on poor proxies that just look like learning.
What is it about?
I'll walk through poor proxies, the principles, and the strategies of hard thinking, and outline the ETA framework — Everyone, Together, Anyone — three deliberate ways to sample student thinking. The talk will be about 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.
When is it?
📅 Saturday 15th August
🇦🇺 8:00–9:00pm AWST (Perth) / 10:00–11:00pm AEST (Sydney/Melbourne)
🇬🇧 1:00–2:00pm (BST)
👉 Register here: luma.com/kzs49pjx
Can't attend live? A recording of the webinar will be available afterwards in the DistillED+ Hub for DistillED+ members. If you're not yet a member, you can explore the upgrade options here: newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
Sign up and see you on Zoom!
Daniel Budd retweeted
📣 COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT! For new knowledge to be encoded in long-term memory, we must DRIVE THINKING and ensure that students are cognitively engaged. This one-page guide summarises how you can push ALL students to think hard.
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Daniel Budd retweeted
❤️🥺 A Mexican fan at the Estadio Azteca gifted a young England fan his Merlín duck plush, and his reaction was PRICELESS.
Nothing brings people from different countries together like football does, and Mexico was the best host nation at the World Cup. 🏆
Daniel Budd retweeted
◽️MINI-WHITEBOARDS! This week in ⚗️DistillED, I’m revisiting one of the highest-leverage tools… MWBs push participation to 100%, turn every check into a retrieval event, and give you a whole-class snapshot of understanding in seconds.
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"Cross-curricular learning" is one of the most over-promised ideas in education.
We stick a coding lesson next to a math lesson and call it integration. The Transfer Illusion (Kirschner, Hendrick & Heal) is exactly this ... assuming students will spot the bridge between two domains just because we put them in the same room.
They won't. Not without us.
In my Geometry Playground, my students write Swift code that draws polygons. The turn angle in the code is the exterior angle of the shape. Same idea, two languages. But that connection is invisible until I stand at the front and model it - narrating my thinking, drawing the link out loud, showing where one becomes the other.
Transfer isn't a hope. It's a teaching move - dbbudd.github.io/
The "cross curricular" label is cheap. The modelling that makes it real is not.
#Pedagogy #Mathematics #ComputerScience @XpatEducator @dylanwiliam
Daniel Budd retweeted
Yes, just having students “use AI to study” hurts learning (a helpful assistant is not a tutor), but using AI prompted to act like a tutor, especially with teacher support, seems to have large positive effects on learning in randomized trials. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Daniel Budd retweeted
Hey, I'm open-sourcing Clicky.
Go forth into the wild and build the future of education and the future of AI interfaces, my friends. I'm happy to have given a spark.
Enjoy!
github.com/farzaa/clicky
Daniel Budd retweeted
I built this thing called Clicky.
It's an AI teacher that lives as a buddy next to your cursor.
It can see your screen, talk to you, and even point at stuff, kinda like having a real teacher next to you.
I've been using it the past few days to learn Davinci Resolve, 10/10.
Daniel Budd retweeted
I built a new plugin! You can now trigger Codex from Claude Code!
Use the Codex plugin for Claude Code to delegate tasks to Codex or have Codex review your changes using your ChatGPT subscription.
Start by installing the plugin:
github.com/openai/codex-plug…
Daniel Budd retweeted
Congratulations to folks who won this year's Swift Student Challenge! Whether you made it as a distinguished winner or not, you took part and brought something fresh into the world – good job! 🙌
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Google Gemini AI is now available in Hong Kong.
gemini.google.com/app
The Gemini phone app is not available in the Hong Kong app stores yet. For Android users, Gemini is available as a digital assistant.
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My SwiftUI agent skill has now passed 1,000 GitHub stars in just two days – I appreciate you all so much! 🙇♂️ So many people have replied to say it has already helped Codex, Claude Code, and other agents find and fix problems in just a few minutes. github.com/twostraws/swiftui…
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This is wild 🤯
My 5-year-old just built his FIRST GAME ever with Codex using only dictation mode.
He wanted a game where you type in a word and transform into any character you want to be ✨ so he dictated it to Codex.
Then he upgraded it to a game where that character jumps and collects coins.
Hello World to the youngest AI engineer ever❤️🔥 @OpenAI @OpenAIDevs
Codex needs an interactive voice mode ASAP
Daniel Budd retweeted
Did Apple just kill every iOS vibe coding app?
Apple just dropped Xcode 26.3 with agentic coding.
Claude Code + Codex are now built into Xcode.
And with MCP support.
Xcode 26.3 with Claude Agent & Codex hits the Mac App Store today! With advanced reasoning capabilities in Xcode, you can streamline workflows and build faster. And MCP support lets you easily connect other compatible agents.
ALT MacBook Pro screen with Xcode open to a project titled “Landmarks.” A pop-up shows Intelligence settings, and iPhone 17 Pro preview to the right displays the Landmark Split View app.
Daniel Budd retweeted
🧩 WORKED EXAMPLES! In this week’s edition of ⚗️DistillED, I unpack what worked examples are, why they reduce cognitive load, and how they help students move from watching expert thinking to applying it independently in the classroom.
Have a read: newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
Daniel Budd retweeted
Thoughtful session by @danielbbudd Great Qs:
-How does the implementation of AI reflect our values?
-What does MTSS look like with AI?
-How to apply AI tools to purposefully enhance teaching/student metacognition?
-How might we incorporate AI into existing policies? #FOLHK
Daniel Budd retweeted
“AI has not yet transformed education because it’s been layered in an outdated system” YES. @danielbbudd #FOLHK
