Prof Carol Davenport

I enjoyed reading this. Clear discussion of the problem with yet another 'literacy'.

I mean, he studied at Northumbria University, but that makes it even better.

Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?

As a parent, I work really hard not to have a favourite child. The long-running cosseting of Andrew is pretty strong evidence that QE2 very much did have a favourite child.

A photo of the article in the physical edition of The House magazine

How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem)

Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold

Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Wakefield is not North East England.

I should probably repost this, since it’s about… er… me.

Yay me!

This is very satisfying.

Interesting approach that I have not come across before.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Doing better than usual - it's only taken me 7 weeks to realise that Only Connect is back for a new series.

Display of goldcoloured pocket watches in a museum case.

@alomshaha.bsky.social I was at an open air museum in Denmark today and they had a watch exhibition, and I saw it and thought of you!

Sorry to hear that @samfr.bsky.social . Hope it gets.sorted as quickly and smoothly as possible.

We saw it earlier in the summer - thought it was great!

There is better pastoral support offered now - but the challenge can be getting students to access it.

I was just talking yesterday to a colleague about the importance of helping new students to settle into the challenges of studying in the first 3-4 weeks at university.

The merits and dangers of subject knowledge What Dr Fox (or Ken Robinson) teaches us about the importance of teachers' subject knowledge

Just because they’re funny doesn’t mean they’re right. The Dr Fox Effect shows we mistake charisma for clarity. The more you know, the harder it is to see what novices don’t. That’s the Curse of Knowledge. Know your subject and how it’s learned.
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Ooh, jealous!

Britain isn't broken We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand

New post just out:

"Britain isn't broken"

We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.

I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.

(£/free trial)

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Congratulations Hana.

Little local cafes where you can get a cuppa and cake.

Yeah, strangely 'change society' isn't considered a reasonable strategy. Which is a shame.

For me, it's finding out that children whose birth you remember being announced are now teenagers!

Absolutely this ⬇️

The damage that TwXter has done to British national discourse is obvious when politicians and their advisors talk about DEI and other strongly-US focused talking points. They can't even get the letters in the order we generally use them in the UK.

Education as both a window and a mirror.

My first thought was that it was April 1st, but apparently not.

And much more memorable than another branded pen, notebook or waterbottle.

Interesting blog about this paper on AI.

Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.

Gail's is one of those mythical southern things which don't seem to make it North.