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Danny Nicholson (Science Fix book out now!!)

@dannynic.bsky.social

SCITT ITE Science / Computing lecturer. STEM/Edtech CPD provider. Science teacher. Author. Google Certified Educator. Craft Beer, gaming and geek. Science Fix book for primary teachers out now. https://linktr.ee/dannynic

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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

03.03.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1215    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 11
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

03.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2197    πŸ” 803    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 133
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β€ŽGoogle Gemini Meet Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more. Experience the power of generative AI.

I've made a thing to help mentors when observing trainee teachers. Give it a strength you've observed and it'll find the closest ITTECF standard that matches. Give it something the to improve and it'll generate a target and suggest step by step deliberate practice

gemini.google.com/gem/1-5pCMbj...

03.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Learning Resources & Guides from Anthropic Access comprehensive guides, tutorials, and best practices for working with Claude. Learn how to craft effective prompts and maximize AI interactions in your workflow.

Anthropic have just launched Anthropic Academy: Free training courses in Claude AI including Claude Code. There's courses for Educators and Students. www.anthropic.com/learn

03.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're going to be doing 80s tech in todays world on @b3ta.com this week

03.03.2026 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
Anthropic's Free Training Just Launched #aitools #claude #trending
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Science and Tech for Teachers Anthropic's Free Training Just Launched #aitools #claude #trending

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03.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Learning Resources & Guides from Anthropic Access comprehensive guides, tutorials, and best practices for working with Claude. Learn how to craft effective prompts and maximize AI interactions in your workflow.

Anthropic have just launched Anthropic Academy: Free training courses in Claude AI including Claude Code. There's courses for Educators and Students. www.anthropic.com/learn

03.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gems
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Science and Tech for Teachers Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gems

Method was basically the same as this, but with a different set of prompts and files to work with. Will get a blog post sorted out which explains this in more detail youtu.be/K-jdrBzWuNw

03.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was my first attempt at creating a Gemini Gem. I trained it on the ITTECF document, and some sample targets. Seems to work quite well.

03.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽGoogle Gemini Meet Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more. Experience the power of generative AI.

I've made a thing to help mentors when observing trainee teachers. Give it a strength you've observed and it'll find the closest ITTECF standard that matches. Give it something the to improve and it'll generate a target and suggest step by step deliberate practice

gemini.google.com/gem/1-5pCMbj...

03.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gems
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Think Bank Education Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gems

Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gemini Gems
youtu.be/K-jdrBzWuNw
#edusky #uked #eduskyuk #artificialintelligence

02.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Big Questions: Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Think Bank Education Big Questions: Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science

Big Questions: Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science
www.youtube.com/shorts/xaDN1...
#edusky #eduskyprimary #primaryscience

02.03.2026 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feeling despondent? Why beginning teachers need to keep on climbing Photo by Yevgeniya Fedorova on Pexels.com I am not a hill walker.Β  I love visiting the Lake District, but I would much rather a nice walk on the flat around a lake (perhaps with a quick stop a…

And just like that, we've hit the 'melancholy days of March'. This is the bit of #ITT year when things can start to feel a bit hopeless. Beginning #teachers who thought they'd really started to master their craft, suddenly find it suddenly isn't working now.

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#TeacherMentoring

02.03.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Interactive Games in Minutes Using Canva AI
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02.03.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gems
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Think Bank Education Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gems

Teachers: Create Your Own AI-Powered Assistant With Gemini Gems
youtu.be/K-jdrBzWuNw
#edusky #uked #eduskyuk #artificialintelligence

02.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists in the National Curriculum - Danny Nics Science Fix A list of diverse scientists which could be used in the primary science curriculum as featured scientists to study

I’ve put together a list of diverse scientists that can be studied across the Primary Science curriculum. I’ve grouped them by broad topics. Download as a spreadsheet.
www.sciencefix.co.uk/scientists-i...
#eduskyprimary #primaryscience #stem

01.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Big Questions: Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Think Bank Education Big Questions: Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science

Big Questions: Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science
www.youtube.com/shorts/xaDN1...
#edusky #eduskyprimary #primaryscience

02.03.2026 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anne Heche is looking a little rough...

01.03.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Starting tomorrow, you can watch fish traffic via an underwater camera livestreaming from an Utrecht canal. If you spot waiting 🐟, you can ping an operator to open the Weerdsluis lock gate & let them through. Highly recommend this for easing elevated stress levels, or if you just like helping fish

01.03.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8

Happy St Totteringham's Day, to all who celebrate
#northlondonforever

01.03.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists in the National Curriculum - Danny Nics Science Fix A list of diverse scientists which could be used in the primary science curriculum as featured scientists to study

I’ve put together a list of diverse scientists that can be studied across the Primary Science curriculum. I’ve grouped them by broad topics. Download as a spreadsheet.
www.sciencefix.co.uk/scientists-i...
#eduskyprimary #primaryscience #stem

01.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amaze.

01.03.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Key Dates in STEM for March.

You can see the full list of dates for 2026 here: www.sciencefix.co.uk/stem-calendar/

#uked #edusky #eduskyprimary

01.03.2026 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Make your powerpoints more accessible by adding automatic subtitles #accessibility
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Think Bank Education Make your powerpoints more accessible by adding automatic subtitles #accessibility

Make your powerpoints more accessible by adding automatic subtitles
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01.03.2026 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mystery Object : Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science (1)
YouTube video by Danny Nicholson : Think Bank Education Mystery Object : Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science (1)

Mystery Objects : Encouraging pupil talk and oracy in Primary School Science

youtube.com/shorts/k8_SY...

#edusky #eduskyprimary #primaryteaching #teachertraining

01.03.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fingers crossed things improve soon :)

28.02.2026 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for organising this again @grahamandre.bsky.social - it's been a blast as always!

28.02.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video)

And finally for the 90's a slice of classic Grunge with Nirvana and Smells Like Teen Spirit youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg?...
#FebMusicChallenge26

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Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by GunsNRosesVEVO Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (Official Music Video)

80's and Sweet Child o Mine by Guns and Roses with one of my favourite guitar riffs youtu.be/1w7OgIMMRc4?...
#FebMusicChallenge26

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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Remaster) (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Remaster) (Official Audio)

OK - 70's lets go with Led Zeppelin and the epic that is Kashmir: youtu.be/ww9484EM2OQ?...

#FebMusicChallenge26

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