So the DfE has spent more than any other government dept on “influencers” and this rubbish is supposed to be PR for the SEND reforms ? Who is the audience? 40 year old Facebook mums who remember Gemma? Why her? All of this makes me so angry I had to go for a walk

Note that this has to be done by a council because action by parents, students or staff would likely bring reprisals I think in the next 5 years we will start hearing about the harms done in schools. Both in person and via digital means

Agree As an example, my mother in law, aged 80, has a group chat with my children where she is sending emotional blackmail and ai memes. She is also ADDICTED to her phone. Having to tell my kids “grandma isn’t behaving well online, we might have to block her” is a madness

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Posting children on the open internet should be illegal without clear reasons for doing so. These two babies are on a popular TikTok account, it should be a private thing shared amongst family. But these two boys will grow up with this in their footprint . And nearly 1000 people have saved this too

I do wonder if Tech Editor Zoe kleinman will ever wake up and realise chasing the hype train isn’t journalism. She doesn’t even say why this is a win for AI companies. In fact this article is so bad it wouldn’t pass GCSE criteria for a good pass. But I guess the men tell her she’s amazing

I know a college dean who does the smartest thing to prep for graduation: He goes around with a big list of graduating names and asks professors currently teaching them to verify if he's pronouncing the names correctly. Any that he didn't, he records the name on his phone to play in an earbud.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Reality TV like MAFS, love island , traitors.. all of it is coercive control and abuse and harm. Normalised. It belongs in the bin. Not on tv. And don’t get me started on C4 and the harm that org does even to its own staff

Sorry but Venezuela fury getting married at 16 in crocs and sunglasses isn’t “iconic”. It is child marriage. It is exploiting a child for a reality tv show. It is setting up another young woman to be fuel for the tabloids. There is nothing cute or iconic about any of it.

I work in education and I am just exhausted by how my colleagues across the sector use AI as if it were some magic ingredient. Because they get told they are innovative, are never told the risks or harms. And they act as if it can’t make errors/ is confidential- think of the DATA here too..

If we had better cybersecurity and digital rights education for EDUCATION STAFF none of this dodgy edtech rubbish would get past the school gates. Schools are letting it in because no one has been trained on anything beyond “phishing”.

When people find out that this unemployment crisis isn’t just “the economy” but ATS ( HR system) data that comes from school.. I think we might have the unrest we need to get change. If my eldest passes on uni this year, there are no jobs, she can’t even get a Saturday job.

Free dogs from pervert glasses. Nothing about this is cute

They are putting meta glasses on dogs now, to show their “POV” and I’m ready for the asteroid to come. Because no, that isn’t cute and it is still surveillance capitalism

I hope no emails find you this week I hope you see dogs with floppy ears And I hope you remember that you matter and that people love you. Don’t say anything to yourself that you wouldn’t say to someone else. Give yourself some flowers today

Many of us have warned that young people are tired and angry of graduating school or college into a world stacked against them, and where adults are using AI but blaming them for the issues. They work hard, get accused of cheating, can’t get jobs.. they aren’t going to cheer for the billionaires

I can’t stop laughing because some the biggest ai boosters are from, or still at these bug bounty companies. Look where it got them. Pushing vibe coding and telling everyone AI is so good just use it.

Now we just need to start booing these people off stage at tech and education conferences. Mock them on LinkedIn and when they talk in person. Make them embarrassed to be saying agentic. Or prompt. Or calling themselves ai experts at all.

I’m thinking of all the children on that far right march yesterday, who will return to classrooms tomorrow. And we will do nothing to mitigate harms, facilitate discussions. And the harm to marginalised children will continue because we won’t comment on a march about removing their rights

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What is it like working in schools during a full moon? Today a student was singing the Macarena, but with adapted lyrics of “hamburger cheeseburger fries and a a pizza” while I corrected their work.

Some students pushed back on using gen ai images in school and the educator response was “Ada Lovelace said the computer will one day create an image so that’s why we used it” Instead of being heard, invited to create future art, we tell young people to suck it up.

Something that makes me really sad about English education in mainstream is that the cruelty is not called in. Harmful people running harmful schools ( Birbalsingh) get hundreds of leaders visiting for CPD and we all have to copy the prison style methods that are hurting children.

I think this is the end of the dating app project. Now you don’t get a choice, some algorithm coded by the worst people will make your choices. Also in 21 I was part of a dating app test for a privacy group. On Tinder I was matched with men even when I hadn’t matched/used the app.

Even my wedding photos didn’t have me looking this good.

People say social media ruined us but I think it can be traced further back to the rise of reality tv. Big Brother and love Island- all shows that de sensitised us to invasion of privacy. It normalised others’ lives as entertainment, as a commodity. Or your own life as something to be offered up

I think we need a wider debate and action about the rise of recording live streams in public. People now publish doorbell cam footage, film themselves in restaurants and on the street and most of us have been in someone’s damn TikTok live. It is surveillance capitalism and we should ban it .

Full moon is coming, that’s why everyone is acting out. In case you were wondering

Working in schools we saw each variant come through in 2020. It was horrifying to know the symptoms before it was on the news, because you’d seen it in children FYI I think we have had at least four waves of Covid this year - and the most recent one with sore throat, nausea, migraine is still going

“What do you mean you use chat GPT for everything, what happened to having a THINK?” Put this on my tombstone

People often ask me why I think certain tech people act the way they do and ,honestly , once you understand that cocaine and ego are in the mix, it makes more sense

Fun fact : the car security mess is due to : 1) manufacturers not wanting to admit liability and do recalls 2) Some really TERRIBLE people do car security work and they alienate every politician and business leader who they meet. Consumer privacy and security needs better people

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

My 9 am lesson was completely de- railed by two pigeons mating on the ledge outside the window. Absolutely disgraceful scenes. Shameless exhibitionism. I had to put up A3 paper in the end to block the window.

Heard another group of teachers discussing how they taught students to “prompt ai to generate exam questions” It is a travesty that we are allowing well meaning teachers to advocate for technology that is horrendously dangerous. But saying this gets you branded difficult.

All of this is quite deliberate: remove access to HE and make it the domain of the rich again. 2020 and years of metoo and remote work SHOOK those in power. They had to share space with marginalised people who were better than them. They want to stop that access. This and layoffs are how.

If “every teacher is a teacher of literacy” then bring back the damn books into classrooms, and stop using AI generated slop text for homework- or government white papers.

Agree. Education is now a system where harm is catalysed. Unless you are in a very good school and I don’t mean in the Ofsted context. We are led by pop science, eugenics fads written by whichever white bloke or his white woman friend/wife says on Twitter .

Every six months or so, we get media stories about car/edtech privacy issues. Then they go away. Because most cybersecurity education is fixated on telling people that emails are scary, or that WiFi is dangerous. I bet your work cyber education has never mentioned your car listening to you?

Be extremely wary of any discussion of “genetics”, no matter how polite it seems. Especially from the FFT whose data is used to predict student grades. The modern edu ecosystem is already sharing so much data with third parties to harm outcomes for youth. Adding “polygenic scores” won’t help

The FBI told me in 2018 that car data was so useful to them that there would never be consumer protections. Your car shares more about you than TikTok does. And the same data sharing happens with edtech, with the same problems

Two things about this: 1) terrible security comms, shows the contempt for the customers 2) no edtech would pass normal procurement checks that happen outside education. Legal and compliance teams would reject edtech for how much data it takes and shares, and the flawed design.

"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯

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note the silence of the screen free/phone free parent groups on the Canvas security incident And on every edtech privacy or security issue. They are there to distract you, not to actually protect children from tech.

Education privacy and security is not taken seriously enough. Schools and universities have been encouraged for decades to adopt tech, and cybersecurity advice has been WOEFUL. - and no one really understands how serious these incidents are

I had an interview this week and the interviewer wore flip flops and took notes on their phone not a laptop. I’m not sure what the candidate experience has become but I don’t like it

We listen and we call the judge, I’m tired of listen and don’t judge

Every time I have anything to do with men in cybersecurity, I am amazed at their ability to only cite the work of other men. Or MAYBE one white woman who they find attractive. That’s it. We would be a lot further along if it were not so

Lots of biased media reporting in favour of reform as usual today Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.