Ollie Bray

Enjoy it all 🙂

An easy read... www.forbes.com/sites/trueta...

Watch the film | Sam and Jony introduce io Building a family of AI products for everyone.

Love it ot hate it, here comes the future... openai.com/sam-and-jony... (and it will arrive quickly).

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

Why sustainability is now key for student teachers in Scotland A new framework will help teachers at the start of their career in Scotland to respond to urgent environmental and sustainability challenges

Why #LearningforSustainability is now key for student teachers in Scotland. Important article in TESScot about the new #LfS framework for initial teacher education supporting #Target2030 #LfSforAll @rushtondr.bsky.social @lfsscotland.bsky.social @olliebray.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Keynote Speaker @olliebray.bsky.social is kicking the day off by sharing where Education Scotland are and planning on going with the Curriculum Review
#starme25

We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris The blue dot of GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder mountain rescuers are being called out so often, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

Get lost! Well, Millenials & Gen Z will if they over-rely on GPS instead of Maps+Apps. As good a case as any for physical+digital solutions. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @olliebray.bsky.social @appalachiantrail.bsky.social @markrpriestley.bsky.social @hargreaves-s.bsky.social

High levels on the Middle Findhorn towards the end of the week...

You smashed it! :-)

Got a lot of paddling done last week and finally got a float down the Beauly - spectacular gorge at the end....

😂😂😂

The polar bears living in an abandoned Arctic weather station A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in their behaviour.

The polar ears living in an abandoned arctic weather station - www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Out and about on the Jurassic Coast with @lornabray.bsky.social

Announcing our Keynote Speaker
@olliebray.bsky.social

#scottishteachers #teachscotland #educationscotland #primaryteacher #secondaryteacher

CfE review success depends on ‘broader ecosystem’ Just one ‘misaligned’ component - be it inspection, teacher education or qualifications - could ‘disrupt the balance of the entire system’, warns a new Education Scotland paper

NEW: The final paper on Scotland’s 'curriculum improvement cycle' (or CIC) has been published - we reveal its key messages tes.com/magazine/new... @olliebray.bsky.social @emmaseith.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social

The Curious Teacher Conference Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus) Saturday 07 June 2025 £35 (£18 for student teachers) Lunch and great chat included

📢The Curious Teacher Conference: a 1 day professional learning event to enhance knowledge, skills and wellbeing of school teachers.

Keynote speaker: @olliebray.bsky.social (update on the Curriculum Improvement Cycle).

Got the sail up on the canoe today...

@olliebray.bsky.social kicking off the conference with provocations around strategy and strategic change

Was good to see you Paul and thanks for the contributions 🙂

Exciting to be at the stage of ‘snagging’ for the new Journal of Leadership Scholarship and Praxis in education! We are looking forward to the launch next week when #LSPE will be open access! @alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social @julie67.bsky.social @douglashutchison.bsky.social @mbcph.bsky.social

This webinar will be a good opportunity to hear about what “evolved framework” will look like, why it it needs to evolve and its role in the #CIC 👇🏻

In December Education Scotland published a Curriculum Improvement Cycle discussion paper called ‘Towards an Evolved Technical Framework.’

Sign up to our webinar to learn more about this paper.

👉ow.ly/T6hT50UJrax

Thanks John.

Great listen for anyone interested in the Currixulum Improvement Cycle in Scotland by @olliebray.bsky.social and Andy Creamer. Particularly interesting differentiation between knowledge and content - certainly the best explanation I’ve ever heard! educationscotland.podbean.com/e/the-curric...

Glad it went well Kirsty and thanks Al's for your help today - you were ace!

Open Badges , Digital Credentials and Open Standards #Bett2024 #Bett24 Digital Badging Commission #openscot A blog about living and working around the creative edge of education and learning

Good piece (thanks @joecar80.bsky.social ) - www.joewilsons.net/2025/02/open...

Funny what pops up in the old news feed. 20+ years ago as Fair Trade Towns were taking off, I thought to myself - 'why couldn't FairTrade schools be a thing'. Lots of them now of course 🙂 www.tes.com/magazine/arc...

Great to clip into the skis yesterday

DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Grok … which is the best AI assistant? We put them to the test Chatbots we tested can write a mean sonnet and struggled with images of clocks, but vary in willingness to talk politics ChatGPT and its owners must have hoped it was a hallucination. But DeepSeek is very real. Continue reading...

DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Grok … which is the best AI assistant? We put them to the test

AI crosses ‘red line’ after learning to replicate itself ‘Successful self-replication is the essential step for AI to outsmart the human beings,’ researchers warn

It was going to happen sooner rather than later... www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-red-...