Daniel Budd

Big weekend in Vietnam for SSIS Conference. Great catching up with old "internet friends" and making some new friends. Same time next year!

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.cf…

@daniquanti @MushtaqBilalPhD Evidence so far suggests yes … recent EEG (electroencephalography) work on digital pens shows similar patterns to ink pens, both distinct from keyboards. The mechanism appears to be the handwriting motion itself, not the paper.

@MushtaqBilalPhD What about using a tablet plus an electronic pencil ? Does that still works?

Taking notes by hand leads to better greater conceptual understanding and retention than typing.

@MushtaqBilalPhD @Mrs_Afraoui Mueller & Oppenheimer (2014) found similar effects in adults; Morehead et al. (2019) failed to replicate; Fiorella & Mayer (2017) found laptop note-takers did better after review; Urry et al. (2021) found the opposite. There’s no consensus.

"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

@FarzaTV @FarzaTV really loving this from an Education point of view (thinking of a teacher assistant). Have you played with Apple Foundation models or newly released Gemma 4 to reduce overhead costs? Thought it would ask before I play myself

I'm blown away at what ppl are using this for!! I built it as a learning tool. But people seem to really love using it as an AI interface that isn't chat that can work in their program of choice. Examples of usage so far: - A Mom building her first app on Lovable - A dentist debugging his OpenClaw setup - A photographer getting feedback in Lightroom - A person learning to animate SVGs in Framer - Founders keeping track of their todos. - Designers getting feedback in Figma - A student outlining her thesis in G-Docs - Traders analyzing live stock charts And A LOT of people using it to advise them on how to best reply to messages in Slack/Email. Super cool. The people yearn for a non-chat interface haha. Also, it's kinda crazy how as the founder you really don't know what the product is until you put it in the hands of users. The minute it's in the hands of others, it's theirs now! And that's really where you find out what it is.

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

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.

My 7-year-old daughter and I built a @Roblox game together using @claudeai as our coding partner. She designed it, we prompted it, and Fruit Towers came to life. Made by kids, for kids - under our new indie studio Pixel Paws Studios. Come play! roblox.com/games/88464306…

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-p…

@deepakpshukla1 @DarioAmodei Yes more and more everyday. Most recently I’ve been playing with Blender MCP to create assets for game development

@danielbbudd @DarioAmodei it's impressive how quickly innovative tools rise in popularity. have you found claude beneficial despite the access issue?

@DarioAmodei Google just launched Gemini for personal users in Hong Kong (no VPN, no workaround). It topped the App Store in days. As an international school educator here, Claude is the tool I build my work around. But I can only access it through a VPN. Hong Kong SAR isn’t mainland China. 7.5 million people are waiting. @AnthropicAI

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! 🙌

ちょっと雑なとこあるけど爆速でめっちゃ UX いい、あとかっこいい

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.

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/swif…

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

@Cyclebrity @minchoi Figures crossed for WWDC26 … Xcode lite or a SPG update would be awesome for the classroom as well!

@minchoi Why is not natively built into the iPad though? The iPad is just as powerful as the Mac right?

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.

🧩 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/p/worked-examp…

Is anyone finding @canva freezing and crashing both browser and app in MacOS over the last month?