There are five roles in my area in schools where someone will run a SEND or alternative provision and the salary is 26/28k. How can you manage a team, run proviso k for vulnerable children and be paid less than a living wage while senior staff get tens or hundreds of thousands?

Second parents’ evening of the week and word has got around. 3 hours, every four minutes, one in three families sitting on screen with a pet next to them Absolute scenes. Cats held up to the screen, dogs going wild, highly recommend making it mandatory that all dogs and cats be shown in meetings

Virtual parents’ evenings are one edtech that I love. And I make them even better by awarding house points for any pets that make an unexpected appearance. Yesterday I had three dogs and one cat. Absolutely outstanding. To think we used to sit in a cold hall until 9:30 pm. Now I get to see dogs

Not all men: but way, way, WAY TOO FUCKING MANY MEN

Me: why are the students acting strangely? Also me: oh

Perhaps the real question is “why are more educators not refusing ai?” Why is it left to students to challenge what the adults should be examining, questioning and refusing? When teachers lose pay and promotion because they used ai so much, they will have themselves to blame

I feel like not only should this be an Ofsted issue surely😎 but how can you promote your own app, using a minister for education, and not mark it as “paid ad” Surely we have Nolan and professional standards?

So let me understand: Minister for education visits you, an MBE, the week she demands phone bans. You film yourself on your phone, with children in the room, promoting your own ai app that the children use and which “partners” with gov but isn’t official DfE tech. Seems sketchy to me but ok.

Counterpoint : this isn’t cute and no hate to this lovely lady Accessible language is NOT this or we’d use it in schools This is, sadly, an example of “employee influencer” marketing. Done to get likes and sales. No protection for the employee or their digital rights. Pls stop saying this is good

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So the U.K. government KNEW about mandelson and Epstein , for years. Still made him ambassador etc. All while making the online harms bill and implementing age verification to “protect children” It was never about protecting children . Powerful men, yes.

I hate Facebook for many reasons, one of the smallest being how it shuts non- account holders out of local info My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook. Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure

Belatedly sharing this longer 'Resisting AI' interview with McMaster Uni which ranges across the politics of AI, the failure of the usual remedies, forms of self-organised resistance, moves towards decomputing, and a focus on the role of universities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nva...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I wish reporting on this would discuss the surveillance capitalism of “lives” on social media- where people have normalised walking around with selfie sticks and filming streets and bars etc. Tiktok promotes this kind of material and it has always been an issue.

Worth a listen because a lot of the shitty infrastructure that is being used against vulnerable communities and protestors is invisible and people choose to integrate them into their lives and their homes.

Triggered by claims the "AI in education debate" is caught in a deadlock and by some academics worried that "AI critics: are over-anxious about *possible* rather than empirically documented effects, here are what I think are some worthwhile critical projects about AI in education 🧵

www.itv.com/news/granada... I find it odd how all these phone free campaigns get so much funding, but digital literacy and edtech governance work never gets any such support.

I will never not be angry that schools get inundated with detail about metacognition or retrieval or whatever the fad is this year But no one gives schools- full of people who can retain and explain facts- any information on how to evaluate edtech products. We scrutinise skirt length more .

Pretty lucky that the tech men and their friends flooded the world with tech that fakes text, voice and image in time to cover up mass global sex trafficking and other crimes Now no one knows who or what to believe. All done by design. And anyone who warned of it was called scared and stupid

When we say that the ego of tech men has always been the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, this is what we mean So many rich powerful men who lack any common sense Also one dose of antibiotics wouldn’t help any more than one Teams update does

I want the screen free and phone free parent groups, school leaders and MPs to be a little louder about the fact that almost every tech ceo and powerful man since 2000 was involved with Epstein. If it were really about child safety, they’d be louder

Is a school phone free if staff film on their phones to record the minster for education visiting their school and post it on tiktok?

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Remember that this is EXACTLY the experience that poorer young people have for all work experience too Same model Data mining Sign up to multiple platforms to do useless stuff the government tells you to. All it does is give ATS and adtech more data.

Testing ai products on the most marginalised is ableism and discrimination and perhaps more people in education should say that openly

I tutor low attaining/disadvantaged students and there is no way an ai tutor is even safe, let alone adequate All this before we make school 3/4 day weeks to improve wellbeing and ease stress on buildings - you could have one day remote teacher set learning instead of this mess Watch who profits

www.gov.uk/government/n... I TOLD you! I said they would start replacing teachers using stolen work from ai apps you all use The only ones who will benefit will be the tutoring companies such as Teachmate AI.

The ai hype bubble can be summed up by this week’s Twitter post about how “everyone in SF is using multi agentic Claudeswarms to automate their lives “ and even tech journalists have jumped on to say “yes, we see this” Absolute rubbish. But they all need to pretend it is real

The dept of education has also spent the most on social media influencers out of all gov departments So how can they be banning phones when they are obsessed with whatever audiences have them.

My school is in a collective that have joined a phone free culture Which is fine, I support most of that, But 1/4 of the schools involved have leaders or teachers who film inside the school, often with students Or who have personal non edu tiktok that the students follow them on 😎

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good journalism might ask why Bridget and Keir exclusively give interviews to TikTok teacher influencers who film themselves in schools? Perhaps we could ask why we allow education staff to undermine basic online safety advice for likes and brand deals ?

Everything is awful, but I was thinking that if you work with young people , there is probably at least one child who is motivated/ feels safe because of you And honestly even outside of education, I’m sure that whatever space you are in, someone is glad YOU are there for them tomorrow.

Edtech is for profit and makes profit via sharing data, confidential data on children and their families. That is a point that needs to be made But yes, it is mostly useless. A grift and a scam sold to schools under pressure to buy whatever the latest MBE recipient is selling

I cannot wait until they stop trying to sell tech by saying it has added ai The world is bad enough without you trying to tell me that my laptop will have twenty rubbish add ons that I will repeatedly have to turn off. I am sure there is a market for tech with no added copilot etc

I really hope the online activism translates into real life speaking out The repercussions are higher today for posting stuff online, of course. But I know from tech harms work that a lot of people talk it up online, get support, then silence others and demand civility. We are beyond being “nice”

Btw this will happen in the UK And all the demonstrations and collective work like shouting warnings, blowing whistles, demos, is already illegal. Remember the coronation? They had police arresting volunteers who escort women to safety at night “Because they might be protestors tomorrow”.

Remember that a large part of the adtech ecosystem is school data. Every school app is full of adtech. Or sells on data. Same with your car data too Switching off cookies or using a private browser won’t save us when schools are selling us out

Isn’t it sad that every single one of these accommodations is not standard in schools but is in workplaces? And understanding these very simple needs would reduce a lot of issues in schools, even for children without autism or other needs.

I had a really good discussion with a class yesterday when I did an online search live on screen and openly talked about why I was avoiding the ai results we get as a standard with a school account. They were open minded and curious. An adult group would have been defensive/rude

I say this every week but my main concern isn’t children online, it is the adults who consume a diet of Facebook and YouTube and use chat gpt and ai as if it were an encyclopaedia. And their stinking attitude to constructive advice or fact checking

"the practice by colleagues and others of critical washing (...): wherein scholarly critique is rendered decorative. Logics such as ‘I am aware of the downsides, therefore I can now use AI’" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies tinyurl.com/yedbsfhr

Hello? Cassandra here. Remember all those times we AI-resistant educators were warning about this exact thing?

I stopped to let one of my students cross the road on Tuesday. He has spent the last two days shouting “thanks for not running me over, miss” and I’m just glad Ofsted aren’t in.

The sad truth is that the ai in education grift will end two ways : One half will sell books and non tech solutions, fancy irl screen free learning for the rich The other half will work for Palantir etc.

I am so incredibly tired of people at BETT and other tech cons talking about ai in education and not ever once discussing governance Or even admitting that LLM etc can be dangerous Just grift all the way down from people whose next scam will be selling books and paper as luxury

Even outside academies, senior leaders in schools are now often in the top 5% of U.K. earners I worked with academy and non academy SLT who earned more than tech people at Facebook or banking. They cannot always understand pressures on families or other staff

Isn’t it odd that the best online safety advice is “don’t use your real name” and yet almost every educator on social media uses their real name? The use of real names comes from a very online influencer/scam culture in education. “Be online or you don’t matter”. That culture can’t advise youth

It is maddening The same people yapping about social media bans and phone bans are the same ones advocating for this dangerous tech to be used everywhere

The hubris of tech bros is Elon Musk thinking he can win against the Ryanair social media team They do not care They came for Prince William and won, had him pegged for sure.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So does using your phone for personal reasons in front of children include the recording of TikTok with students or in front of them at assemblies etc? All of which currently gets you an invite to Downing Street and payment from the DfE to host Bridget Phillipson?

Reels and YouTube shorts and half the video content online is just TikTok recycled. So young people are well into social media content even if you have banned them