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Keith Turvey PhD
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Honorary Associate Professor IOE UCL. Past roles: Teacher, Principal Lecturer, Reader. @keithturvey.bsky.social
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If we let teaching and learning become reduced to a superficially understood and poorly critiqued box of ‘science of learning’ tricks, we shouldn’t be surprised at algorithmic automation of the process.
With recent debate about @Alphaschool I’m reposting our blog post linked to a special issue of @BJETEds on AI we published earlier this year blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2026/04/21…
blogs.ucl.ac.uk AI in Education: no more marking, lesson planning... teaching... learning? To replace time-consuming pedagogical practices, artificial substitutes can often leave a lot to be desired and/or represent significant compromise... (read more) As we are seeing the ‘learning sciences’ paradigm lends itself to economic and algorithmic exploitation via AI. We have been here before - teaching machines, skinner etc.
The usual either or binary choices.
Competency-based vs knowledge-based curriculumView quoted post on X
