Craig Barton interviews guests from the wonderful world of education about their approaches to teaching, educational research and more. All show notes, resources and videos here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/
In this episode, I welcome my friend and Eedi co-founder, Dr Simon Woodhead. We dive into the evolution of educational technology, data collection, and AI's role in personalised learning. Join us as we reflect on past innovations, current challenges, and future opportunities in edtech, data science, and AI integrations in education. View the show notes here: podcast.mrbartonmaths.com/219-ai-in-education-with-simon-woodhead-eedis-chief-data-scientist
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Episode details
In this episode, I welcome my friend and Eedi co-founder, Dr Simon Woodhead. We dive into the evolution of educational technology, data collection, and AI’s role in personalised learning. Join us as we reflect on past innovations, current challenges, and future opportunities in edtech, data science, and AI integrations in education.
Talking points
- The early days and lessons from Autograph, one of the pioneering math visualisation tools
- The journey of diagnosticquestions.com and its impact on formative assessment
- How data collection over a decade is now unlocking new AI capabilities in education
- The significance of knowledge graphs, constructs, and curriculum mapping across countries
- Challenges of domain shift and cultural context in global education datasets
- The promise and pitfalls of machine learning models trained on educational data
- The role of human-in-the-loop systems, explainability, and student explanation analysis
- The emergence of competitive machine learning challenges and their role in educational modelling
- Real-world insights into monetising edtech, selling to schools, and engaging parents
- The transformational impact of AI-related funding and grants
Video:
Links from Simon
- The data science meetings that Simon mentioned are here: datascienceineducation.events
- You can find out all about Eedi here: eedi.com
New stuff I have been working on:
- My Tips for Teachers Guides to… series
- My updated mrbartonmnaths website
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- You can help support the podcast (and get an interactive transcript of this episode) via my Patreon page at patreon.com/mrbartonmaths
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- My books are “Tips for Teachers“, “Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain”, “How I wish I’d taught maths”, and my Tips for Teachers Guide to… series.