{"id":17772,"date":"2023-03-26T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=17772"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:52:01","slug":"evidence-led-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/evidence-led-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"evidence-led innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie Brae&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olliebray\/status\/1639903573558407168\">tweet<\/a>, leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conradwolfram.com\/writings\/game-over-for-maths-a-level\">Game Over for Maths A-level \u2014 Conrad Wolfram<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The combination of ChatGPT with its Wolfram plug-in just scored 96% in a UK Maths A-level paper, the exam taken at the end of school, as a crucial metric for university entrance. (That compares to 43% for ChatGPT alone).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Wrong conclusion: ban it. Right conclusion: change what humans are learning so they step up a level, and don\u2019t compete with what AIs do well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wolfram goes on to explain that an overhaul of the math curriculum is long overdue, and quotes himself from 3 years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s ecosystem of education doesn&#8217;t easily support such subject change. From assessments tied to today&#8217;s subjects, to too short a time horizon, to <strong style=\"background: yellow;\">evidence-led innovation<\/strong> rather than innovation-led evidence, there&#8217;s everything to prevent core subject change and seemingly nothing to promote it. Except, eventually, after much disarray, cold, hard failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My hi-light. Seeing &#8220;evidence-led innovation&#8221; as part of the problem was interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie Brae&#8217;s tweet, leads to Game Over for Maths A-level \u2014 Conrad Wolfram The combination of ChatGPT with its Wolfram plug-in just scored 96% in a UK Maths A-level paper, the exam taken at the end of school, as a crucial metric for university entrance. (That compares to 43% for ChatGPT alone). Wrong conclusion: ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1639970922986700801","https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/110089675061884901"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,6],"tags":[1616,894,1659,829,1658],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-chatgpt","9":"tag-curriculum","10":"tag-inovation","11":"tag-maths","12":"tag-wolfram","13":"kind-note","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4CE","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17774,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions\/17774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17772"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=17772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}