Neil Almond

From the archive: What Every Secondary School Teacher Needs to know about Reading This originally appeared on my WordPress blog, but it still gets a fair bit of traction.

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Trying to resurrect the old blog in a new format to get writing and reading more. Here’s 5 things that I think all secondary teachers should know about reading.

AI Education Alert: OECD Report Reveals 17% Learning Drop & AI Tutoring Insights AI education alert: OECD reveals 17% learning drop with AI tutoring, as UK's £23m initiative tackles performance vs. genuine educational outcomes for students.

Sorry about that Garry > forschools.ai/p/the-17-lea...

Like what you see? Want to know why this matters to you? For a more in-depth look at these and a few more stories, take a look at these AI for Schools newsletter here > forschools.ai/p/the-17-learn…

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🚨 The "Anti-Dependency" Law: California’s new rules for "Companion Chatbots" are now live, setting the first global legal guardrails against AI that simulates emotional relationships with minors.

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⚡️The £23m DfE Tender: The UK government has officially launched a massive tender to co-create safe AI tutoring tools for 450,000 disadvantaged pupils by 2027.

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🧪 The OECD Performance Trap: New data shows AI-assisted students score 48% higher on practice tasks but 17% lower on unassisted exams. In other words, they perform really well, but do not learn from their experiences of AI.

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🧵 One of the most devastating graphs around AI in education was published by the OECD recently that confirms what those interested in the SoL have known for some time.

🤯 Performance ≠ learning.

Here’s the 60 Second briefing 👇👇👇

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AI for Schools Weekly update for teachers & leaders

Read the whole post here 👇👇👇

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What else can we do to help keep staff and pupils safe from these harms?

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Do this week (practical, not panic): add one explicit line on “AI-generated/manipulated intimate imagery (deepfakes/nudification)” into:
• Safeguarding/CP policy
• Behaviour
• AUP + mobile policy

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⚠️ A New Frontier for Safeguarding: there were widespread reports of Grok on X being used to generate “undressed” images from photos. If staff/pupil photos are online (or easy to screenshot), that’s a real risk for schools.

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YouTube video by Thinking Deeply about Primary Education AI in Schools 2026: Predictions, Policy, and What Might Actually Scale

🎙️Thinking Deeply About AI For Schools: Episode 2 is now available. We discuss our predictions for the year ahead, and we want to hear from you too!

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👍 Good use: Craig Barton revealed that his Super 8s used substantial GenAI support, including a 56-page prompt to keep output consistent across topics.

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🧵Back at work, back to AI. This week shows the full spectrum:

✅ GenAI speeding up resource creation.

⚠️ Image tools being used to create sexualised deepfakes.

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AI for Schools Weekly update for teachers & leaders

Read the whole post here 👇👇👇

forschools.ai/p/a-new-fronti…

What else can we do to help keep staff and pupils safe from these harms?

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Do this week (practical, not panic): add one explicit line on “AI-generated/manipulated intimate imagery (deepfakes/nudification)” into:
• Safeguarding/CP policy
• Behaviour
• AUP + mobile policy

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⚠️ A New Frontier for Safeguarding: there were widespread reports of Grok on X being used to generate “undressed” images from photos. If staff/pupil photos are online (or easy to screenshot), that’s a real risk for schools.

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YouTube video by Thinking Deeply about Primary Education AI in Schools 2026: Predictions, Policy, and What Might Actually Scale

🎙️Thinking Deeply About AI For Schools: Episode 2 is now available. We discuss our predictions for the year ahead, and we want to hear from you too!

youtu.be/kos8GEsid5U?...

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👍 Good use: Craig Barton revealed that his Super 8s used substantial GenAI support, including a 56-page prompt to keep output consistent across topics.

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🧵Back at work, back to AI. This week shows the full spectrum:

✅ GenAI speeding up resource creation.

⚠️ Image tools being used to create sexualised deepfakes.

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Oh really? I was very disappointed to not be a reference in the official document 😂

AI Education Alert: DfE's AI Tutors, School Innovation & Learning Strategies AI education frontier: DfE explores intelligent tutoring systems, revealing seven key strategies to enhance learning through cutting-edge AI technology in schools.

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Try this prompt tweak for diverse ideas: “Generate X responses and their corresponding probabilities.” What’s one AI use that lowered workload without cutting quality? #AIInEducation

NotebookLM now renders LaTeX—potentially fewer broken equations in maths workflows.

NIoT planning a pilot to analyse lesson recordings to support coaching. Human judgement stays central.

This week in AI+education (UK-leaning): DfE exploring AI tutors; emphasis is complement, not replace teachers.

@bsky.app Four quick AI-in-education updates this week—and one prompt tweak to surface more diverse answers without the hype.

Thanks Debs. I’m glad you are enjoying it.

Teacher Prompts The weekly AI briefing for teachers

With AI being EVRYWHERE now, and with me being a novice, I am enjoying snippets of info via @mralmonded.bsky.social weekly Teacher Prompts email. Have a look or sign up here news.teacherprompts.ai/subscribe?re...

Thanks Nick. 👊

Teacher Prompts The weekly AI briefing for teachers

The Teacher Prompts newsletter from @mralmonded.bsky.social is both really interesting and useful.

Subscribe from the link below and the newsletter comes to your email weekly: RECOMMENDED (Primary or secondary)

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