@andydawson.bsky.social I see how rightly riled you were by the budget build up. We need a Mince budget special with Bob doing his Peston impersonation 😆

Looking forward to reading this as recommended by @profanityswan.bsky.social in @tftimemachine.bsky.social

Stunning bike ride in the Yorkshire Dales today.

View from today’s ride. Looking down to Whitby and the Abbey from Lythe bank.

The DfE's new AI guidance helps UK schools cut teacher workload, support students, and use the tech safely and effectively. Here's a summary of the key points: www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2025/06/ai-g... #edusky

Bradford City centre looks magnificent. We celebrated with pints, pies and peas in Jacob’s

Definitely worth a watch this 🤣 @andydawson.bsky.social youtu.be/b4BdBIg9jKU?...

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social possible contender for a tree if the day some time. At Apperley Bridge near Bradford

Looking forward to @mrpaulbutler.bsky.social ‘s session on purposeful use of AI in education

I enjoyed volunteering for Yorkshire Air Ambulance at Asda in Adel yesterday.

I’ve added a How to set up Bandlab for you and your class video to my web site. Bandlab is an online music and audio editing program. It’s perfect for Chromebooks www.connectedcomputing.org/videos

Are you looking at incorporating an AI unit into your computing long term plan? This unit is focused on supporting understand in UKS2. My vision was supporting those children in a ever growing digital environment. 🎯 How AI works? 🎯 Ethics and AI 🔗 www.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/20...

Police have said a warning about a drug called ‘Strawberry Quick’, which has been circulating on social media and was even shared by primary schools, is a “hoax”. But how did the hoax spread? Here’s what we know 👇

To find out a bit more about how Wonderblocks links to the EYFS framework and the Computing curriculum, read my blog post for Computing At School (CAS). www.computingatschool.org.uk/forum-news-b...

Woo! Finally got around to passsing the Google Educator Level 2 exam to retain my Google Education Trainer status. Another job done

I really like the new 2beSafe resources from @purplemash.bsky.social for online safety. All based on Education for a connected world. You can download free samples here www.2simple.com/free-stuff/t...

SWGFL have released their AI policy template for schools. A vital document looking at befits, risks, responsibilities, training and more. Highly recommended swgfl.org.uk/magazine/int...

I hope you love this as much as we do. Ludocene is a new app that reimagines video game discovery: 😍A dating app that matches you with games rather than people. 🃏A deck-builder that discerns your next favourite game. 🎓Get recommendations from experts you know and trust. Please share!

Prepped for a full day of online safety mark assessor refresher training. Looking forward to learning lots.

@nspcc.bsky.social research into generative AI and children's safety, with recommendations. learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-res...

Great to be back on the bike today with Chris T. Albeit is almost freezing temperatures 😂

I'm now an offical volunteer for Yorkshire Air Ambulance. If there are ny schools in the West Yorkshire region who would like a talk please mesasage me.

Wow! Just a short sample of a recording I made of Google AI studio telling me how to use software in real time. Even responded to my interruptions 😮

@officialbullsrl.bsky.social you need to start posting updates on here. No updates from today's Challenge cup game. It's not hard to cross post, or better still just dump X/Twitter

We also used My Pencil App to draw our characters online. Unfortunately whiteboard.fi looks like it’s paid version only so this was an interesting alternative

We used @padlet.com Sandbox in our training session today. So easy to set up and use 👍

It's incredible to see how much more computing power a micro:bit has compared to the computer in the rocket that first took humans to the moon. I just asked about this using gemini -see below for pasted text @microbit.org

Well that's me donating to Wikipedia then. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

*HEADTEACHERS - LONG TERM WRITING PROJECT with @piecorbett.bsky.social and me* Is writing a priority area for you? ✅ 3 Term Project ✅ 6 LIVE/Interactive CPD sessions for teachers ✅ 3 SLT evaluation sessions ✅ Open to UK and International Schools More info here: clusterblogging.net/blog/2025/01...

Delighted to attend #onlinesafetylive from SWGFL with @jessdigital.bsky.social and Graham Lowe

@jessdigital.bsky.social great to meet you and talk all things online safety and curry 😊

Really useful links, thank you 😊

Such a game change to have an online version of Scratch Junior codejr.org/scratchjr/in...

Wonderblocks is a new CBeebies programme, released on Jan 20th, that aims to develop children's early computational thinking skills & problem solving. I'm very proud to have been involved. @compscitsui.bsky.social @milesberry.net @computingatschool.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Teachers 👋 here is a *free* collection of games that learners 8-14 can make that uses the micro:bit's radio including Just dance 🕺💃, Splatoon 🟡 battleships ⚓ and 2 player bat and ball 🏏 Access the worksheet pdfs here 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1JdMX...

Could she have found a bigger stick?

Did you miss our webinar with the @figma.com Education team?! 🎥 Watch the full recap and grab all the resources you need to bring this AppSmash into your classroom. 🎨✨ hubs.la/Q031YlJH0

@comp4sch.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky Pam 😊

@catherinelliott.bsky.social glad you made it! It’s a much nicer place here 😊

A New Year’s Eve visit to Salt’s Mill and another look at the David Hockney Arrival of Spring Exhibition. It’s fascinating to see he thinks Turner would have loved to paint with an iPad. I love how he sees colour in the darkest time of the year too. HNY all 😊

I was in the office and filmed a rehearsal

6888 on Netflix. Surreal to see my ex workplace transformed into a Second World War street for a scene.

Absolute joy in the room with these @exceedscitt.bsky.social teacher trainee students. We created @microbit.org programs to test conductivity, then saw how many people we could link up in a circuit 😊 @wearecomputing.bsky.social (photo permission given)

Probably the highlight of my week was the GD writing workshop with @ImpactMAT pupils where K from @leemountprimary just drafted this in about ten minutes. So good to be using Hugo again @idletim.bsky.social

Looks like WhatsApp might be being a bit flaky according to Down Detector downdetector.co.uk/status/whats...

Resharing this. A great site for lots of amazing typping games for little and often practice in class www.typing.com/student/games Z Type is my absolute fave!