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This feels like the last gasp of the STEM course grift. Sold on to the U.K. gov, ever the easy mark for tech scammers to sell to. Just fluff that people could fill resumes with, LinkedIn learning but by government. Meaningless and probably cost a fortune

Absolutely this

Testing ai products on the most marginalised is ableism and discrimination and perhaps more people in education should say that openly

I tutor low attaining/disadvantaged students and there is no way an ai tutor is even safe, let alone adequate

All this before we make school 3/4 day weeks to improve wellbeing and ease stress on buildings - you could have one day remote teacher set learning instead of this mess

Watch who profits

Also the EEF is not “evidence” because it compiled some rubbish “report” that is aimed at diminishing a profession

450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools Safe AI tutoring tools co-created with teachers to be available to schools by the end of 2027, helping to close the attainment gap.

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I TOLD you! I said they would start replacing teachers using stolen work from ai apps you all use
The only ones who will benefit will be the tutoring companies such as Teachmate AI.

It is like me saying everyone in London is using multi faceted flabbergasts to automate the flibbertigibbert to manage rapscallions

The ai hype bubble can be summed up by this week’s Twitter post about how “everyone in SF is using multi agentic Claudeswarms to automate their lives “ and even tech journalists have jumped on to say “yes, we see this”

Absolute rubbish. But they all need to pretend it is real

I need to know who is on this

I also wonder how we set such an example when “mr smith” is on tiktok , easily searchable and may even accidentally interact with students.. and I remember that my blog in 2005 with just homework and work outlines was a “safeguarding risk”, how far we have fallen

The dept of education has also spent the most on social media influencers out of all gov departments

So how can they be banning phones when they are obsessed with whatever audiences have them.

There are very laudable goals to screen and phone free work

But it cannot be undermined by those who are as adults, addicted to likes and socials and phones

My school is in a collective that have joined a phone free culture
Which is fine, I support most of that,

But 1/4 of the schools involved have leaders or teachers who film inside the school, often with students

Or who have personal non edu tiktok that the students follow them on

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I pointed out to colleagues today that the rhetoric is empty when teachers record students and most were shocked as they aren’t online to see it

Phone bans make sense to the extent that young people need to understand the risk of screen addiction, and more than that, how to be good online citizens and not film or record or post about things without consent. But this is undermined daily by schools who are Facebook like addicted

Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers The education secretary says phones should not been seen during lessons, breaktimes or lunchtime.

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Good journalism might ask why Bridget and Keir exclusively give interviews to TikTok teacher influencers who film themselves in schools?
Perhaps we could ask why we allow education staff to undermine basic online safety advice for likes and brand deals ?

When people find out they were distracted by phone bans, all while edtech sold data that impacted employment and other opportunities for youth… there will be some big problems for sure.

I think the future will be more affluent or informed families choosing schools that don’t use terrible tech.
All we can do is work towards better digital rights education and more info for school leaders

The little legs… I can’t ..💜

Everything is awful, but I was thinking that if you work with young people , there is probably at least one child who is motivated/ feels safe because of you

And honestly even outside of education, I’m sure that whatever space you are in, someone is glad YOU are there for them tomorrow.

Idle thought but is it possible that the love of booklets has become even more pronounced since Gen ai meant people can easily produce / get an edtech app to make resources? As in if brisk , copilot or Teachmate etc make it, must be ok

One day journalists will cover edtech and how well connected it often is to government.
Or how they often have links to school data protection or cyber providers and it is all a big scam. With interests that should be declared. Also if you care about civil rights, you should worry about edtech

Edtech is for profit and makes profit via sharing data, confidential data on children and their families.

That is a point that needs to be made

But yes, it is mostly useless. A grift and a scam sold to schools under pressure to buy whatever the latest MBE recipient is selling

I cannot wait until they stop trying to sell tech by saying it has added ai

The world is bad enough without you trying to tell me that my laptop will have twenty rubbish add ons that I will repeatedly have to turn off.

I am sure there is a market for tech with no added copilot etc

Agree. And it is so horrible when you hear people criticised for the slightest thing

No wonder people just decide the simplest path is to follow the leader

I think the broad public are moved and motivated for the right reasons

But choose your community leaders wisely.

As an example, I thought a well known woman in the U.K. was great because she spoke truth to power online. She used us to get clout and then told us to be nice to government etc.

I really hope the online activism translates into real life speaking out

The repercussions are higher today for posting stuff online, of course.

But I know from tech harms work that a lot of people talk it up online, get support, then silence others and demand civility. We are beyond being “nice”

I think it is important to be able to take challenge or correction and not take it super personally. Which is often hard and difficult in a burned out profession. I also think most people just assume doctrine is safe and tested and don’t want to think about the other side

Agree, also ability was a bad term, I hate how I absorb the terrible terms in mainstream even when my mind is on making it better.
I once had a colleague stop speaking to me because I said their booklets weren’t helping in my lesson. Two years later they still ignore me😎

As someone who has come in and out of teaching, what I notice is not just booklets being the obsession, but also no one encourages healthy debate about methods. We have to accept so many “new concepts” without challenge. I refuse to “cold call” for example. I dislike the ableist slant stuff too.