Becky Allen ✓

@profbeckyallen · Cuckfield, Sussex · joined 30 May 2010

Recovering academic | co-founder of @teachertapp | now mostly thinking about instruction and learning | yes, I do have a Substack.

23 585Followers

1 825Following

10 207Posts total

21.4KViews on collected posts

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Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen23 Jul

Two new linked posts about who can tell us whether a lesson will work before pupils see it. One is about AI pretending to be students, the other about teacher judgement. Neither can verify a lesson, for interestingly different reasons. 2.4K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen15 Jun

@profbeckyallen I agree that interest-based personalization usually fails, but here's a study that found that AI-generated personalization did increase engagement and achievement: https://t.co/HBvDfTOTyI 577 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen15 Jun

@profbeckyallen The other part about interest-based personalization that I don’t get is why would the TEACHER be spending any time doing that, given that the available tools are usable by each student? So then why would any individual student come to class at all? 26 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen14 Jun

@profbeckyallen Spot on about interactive whiteboards. Where are they now? It feels like we're at 'take 1' on my tech journey all over again... https://t.co/xxlGESudyl 240 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen14 Jun

Maths teachers have introduced negative numbers for centuries, to millions of children, with a mountain of cognitive science to hand — and still can't agree how to do it. Debt, a thermometer, a number line you walk along. The arguments are detailed, sincere, and unresolved. https

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Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen14 Jun

Daisy Christodoulou is right that interest-based personalisation usually fails because the analogy has to fit the content, not the learner. I'd add one nuance: that judgement needn't stay tacit. Education theory gives a usable rule-set for when an example survives and when it 5K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen15 May

Last week I appeared on the brilliant @mrbartonmaths Podcast where we talked about AI and education. Find the episode on Apple Podcasts here - https://t.co/2qbkG9tUp7 4.1K views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Becky Allen ✓@profbeckyallen2 May

Everyone in my feed knows whether AI video is good for learning. I think both camps are arguing about the wrong thing. New post on plausible stories, mechanisms, and what it would actually take to know. (New Substack post - link below) https://t.co/ICt3NQNRwk

4.9K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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1 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 10K–100K seguidores. aparece para muita gente, mas poucos desses espectadores reagem.

Mediana de visualizações2 437esta conta924mediana para 10K–100K

Alcance, %10.33%esta conta3.62%mediana para 10K–100K

Engajamento, %0.41%esta conta1.52%mediana para 10K–100K

Métrica	Esta conta	Mediana para 10K–100K	Proporção
Mediana de visualizações por post	2 437	924	2.64×
Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores)	10.33%	3.62%	2.85×
Taxa de engajamento	0.41%	1.52%	0.27×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

4.9K2 May

4.1K15 May

5K14 Jun

4.1K

240

2615 Jun

577

2.4K23 Jul

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.26%2 May

0.36%15 May

0.40%14 Jun

0.86%

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0.00%15 Jun

0.87%

0.41%23 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes44.3%62 in total

Reposts13.6%19 in total

Replies7.9%11 in total

Quotes4.3%6 in total

Bookmarks30.0%42 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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