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'Internal AP can work - here's how we do it' Can internal AP help schools avoid exclusions? One school believes its approach shows what’s possible

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We are at the point of admitting that students may need “respite care” from mainstream schools, but we will do ANYTHING but change mainstream schools because vested interests need cohorts of docile, resigned to their fate school leavers

No project sponsored by big tech can be independent or ethical and I’ve been doing this for a long time.

Hungry mothers and dirty wards - maternity care 'much worse' than anticipated, review chief says - BBC News An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England’s maternity services.

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I am so lucky that I gave birth in Switzerland because the horror stories I heard from friends in the U.K. - worse still they didn’t even realise their experiences were bad

As a Brit as a service and expert on heraldry, I can confirm that this is indeed registered as your crest and recorded as such in the Tower of London

Is it not your JOB to carefully make exam resources for your students ?

I am really fed up with my children being told to use gen ai. The latest is my 15 year old told to scan a chapter of Macbeth or biology revision and an ai app will make questions for him

Teachers should be wary of risks to safeguarding and their own salaries if they continue down this path

Same
I work with children and adults

The adults are the problem. Half the schools still use Facebook for comms and resource sharing and are telling students to use the disinformation network that is LLM

But if I speak …

The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Love the writing of @johnharris1969.bsky.social . One interesting line among many: "There are more people being diagnosed with anxiety and depression because of an education system and model of work that are so harshly competitive and inherently precarious". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As we go into 2026, can we ask:
Why do schools use such awful edtech?
Why are schools on Twitter, meta apps, when we KNOW they are harmful
Why are schools using LLM when we KNOW it is harmful and tech ceo have said teachers will be replaced by ai in 4 years ?

Caerphilly school shuts as 'flu-like' illness hits 250 pupils and staff The school says it will shut for a short

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At what point do we stop chasing 💯 attendance in schools, letting mass disabling epidemics rip through schools and into communities ? We have two more weeks to go and I’m already braced to have to cancel holiday plans because I KNOW we are going to get sick.

And in the U.K. certainly there is very little desire to fact check or do digital rights work.. as it would ruin the coercive control of the population and get children asking about edtech too…

Your podcast and reading list excludes the marginalised women who you should be citing

Tech resistance is a feminist project and we should act accordingly thanks and wishing you well in including existing work and getting THAT into wired

I’ve seen years of tech harm reduction work be stalled and derailed by people who talk it up on socials but will be all “let’s be nice “ once they get in powerful rooms. They are there to get access to power, not flip it

tech harm reduction work has to be a feminist,project @danmcquillan.bsky.social says this in his book. So please can we stop amplifying white men and women who want to be the “face” of resistance work, but who won’t cite, or join work done by a broad demographic . Don’t fall for the scam

“Your teacher will cut off your hands if you write je mapple. You have 20 minutes to write 50 words on yourself and your family, or else”

A resin mini duck in yellow with santa hat on in plastic, on a wooden worktop

Want to motivate people through the next two weeks? Offer resin ducks as rewards.

Works for adults too.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the people who will follow you asking “are you the duck lady, can I have a duck?”

Why were they paying for that anyway ?

An exam question asked the 12 year olds to “write a blog” and they didn’t know what that was, so I had to use the example of a “get ready with me/ day in the life POV”

And then they got it 😩

He goes on a lot , they had him on so much I had to block them all. Or they all chat to each other on socials and video it. But carry on yourself

Also while I’m here, James Acaster smashed up part of a tv set yesterday on live Saturday morning tv. So perhaps we could stop blaming social media for everything. And admit we enable and laugh at harm and call it banter and “fun”

Their podcast , the entire newsagents bs and Emily maitless as their token woman bc she’s attractive and simpers… it can all get in the bin

Black Hat Black Hat

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What a surprise that the ICO is doing a little PR tour to Black Hat EU, nice little panel led by someone who if she cared about real regulation would reject this

Try getting a response from the ICO on an actual issue…you won’t. This is what they are for: PR. As is BHEU

We have a government addicted to Twitter, a population that uses Facebook and Instagram for work and “community” resources - and now we are throwing in LLMs which are basically nation state disinformation machines, psy ops at scale

What could go wrong ?

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Indeed. It feels sad that a lot of people show that they don’t understand consent at all

Which explains such a harmful society

In 2019 I got told off my my HOD for rolling my eyes in a similar demo - until I showed her their website which invited “budding students and actors “ to apply to “present our tech to teachers and act excited”
She thought the presenter was a teacher not a 22 year old on a holiday job

She’s an icon. That’s all I have. I would do the same I think

This is why the ICO think cctv in bathrooms in schools is a grey area it is not . But it is if you have zero understanding of consent or privacy

A prevailing issue in tech and data protection is the number of fools who profess to be “experts”, but who will tell you that you have “no reasonable expectation of privacy in public”.

You have the reasonable expectation to not be filmed and uploaded,shared, commented on.

I can imagine. It is incredible how teachers sit through this presentation of how they will be rendered little more than facilitators - and paid accordingly