My #3GoodThings for w/e July 3rd, 2026. 1. Progress in documenting #EdTech continuity plans. 📄 2. Eldest is completing his work experience at Uni of Leicester today, and attending their open day tomorrow. 🎓 3. Countdown to the end of my contract at BNU (not good). 🥺

It's all downhill from here.

NEW on Wonkhe: For Carmen Miles, much of the higher education sector is still acting as if distance learning was an optional add-on buff.ly/CtF83nq

What's Vlad planning now? Only one reason to close a border... www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

FFS. Why is the BBC more interested in who’s attending the sporting events (B- to Z-list celebs, and some barely-celebs) than the people actually PLAYING the sport. Just focus on sport & sporting action dammit.

I have an unwritten blog post titled 'ability vs enthusiasm'. I wonder what (or who) inspired that and where I was going to go with it. #blog #unfinished

Mixed reactions to guessing today's Framed. Framed #1573 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Monday. But cooler (that's the temperature, not its fashionable status. Monday still sucks!)

"For learning to work, something has to be absorbed. For leadership to matter, it has to be changed by what it encounters. For management to improve systems, signals have to penetrate the surface." Sponge or stone?? www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/sp... #Leadership #Change #Learning

I'll need to revisit this recent blog of mine, in light of today's activity. www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/wh... #University #HigherEd #UCAS #OpenDay

Just back from a uni open day with son no.1. NTU, Brackenhurst campus: Very impressive, good chat with course leader, student reps had some input (once we found one who wanted to be there), accommodation tour useful, finances very scary, and travel/campus intimidating. Score: 7/10.

You don’t get to choose your legacy. You choose how you lead, how you treat people, and the decisions you make. Your legacy is the story other people tell about those things once you’re gone. If you start a new job planning your legacy, you should be automatically banned from the job!

'Learning without edges', a great theme for this year's #ALTC @altuk.bsky.social "... explore how digital learning and learning technology can support continuous, connected and equitable learning throughout life." alt.ac.uk/index.php/al... Get your thinking caps on. 🔥

My #3GoodThings for w/e June 26th, 2026. 1. Too hot for this. I'm off to sleep in the fridge. See you next week ... ☀️☀️☀️ 🧊

Digital transformation isn't about choosing the right technology. It's about understanding the problem well enough to know which technology, if any, is the right answer. If technology enables transformation, then it's the people who deliver it. Read 👉 www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/technology/w...

Instead of asking, “How can we make this more engaging?”, perhaps we should be asking, “What does the learner need to succeed?” www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/do... #Learning #Education #LearningDesign

My #3GoodThings for w/e June 19th, 2026. 1. A little crate digging and some new vinyls this week (oops, sorry). 🎵 2. It's hot, and it's only going to get hotter next week. ☀️ 3. Visiting friends and family in the New Forest this weekend. Maybe a paddle in the sea too. Maybe. 🌊

Step away from the keyboard. No good can come of it. #Wellbeing

Never heard of it. Framed #1559 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf

Director of DMU Education Academy careers.dmu.ac.uk/job/Director... Closing date: June 29th #ALTC #Education #Jobs

UNICEF and Helsinki Education Hub join forces to bring evidence-backed digital learning for every child www.helsinki.fi/en/networks/...

My #3GoodThings for w/e June 12th, 2026. 1. Nearly finished with the Pearson SATs marking. What a nightmare. 🤬 2. Lots of rain. Good for the land, not so good in the quantity we've had in such a short time. 🌧️ 3. Youngest Hopkins only has one more GCSE and then he's done. 🎓

Another great film. Framed #1551 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

"Higher education will be among the first systems to feel the impact of demographic shifts – and is simultaneously the system most needed to sustain productivity for an ageing population." @wonkhe.bsky.social @dkernohan.bsky.social #HigherEducation

That was fun. Wasn't 100% sure, maybe 90% ... !! Framed #1550 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Morning. Another damp start to a June morning. Meh. 🌧️ #GoingBackToBed #HadEnoughAlready #WakeMeUpForSummer

*new post* “Everything you wanted to know about Microcredentials (but were afraid to ask)" www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/webinar/micr... #HigherEducation #Microcredentials

“Fail early and fail fast” and “Be wrong as fast as you can.” If you apply this mindset to everything new you attempt, you can begin to subvert the negative connotation associated with making mistakes. www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/book-review/... #Leadership #CreativityInc #Failure #Success

Morning. Back at the desk, had brain-fog when trying my password, and now wading through emails and messages. #Holibobs

Using ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, etc, as a job hunting coach or support. What's your experience? How do you position the prompt to get the best (& honest?) response? Have you had success, either direct or indirect? What would you recommend? #GenAI #JobHunting #CareerChange #JodSearch #Network

My #3GoodThings for w/e May 22nd, 2026. 1. Bank Holiday weekend ahead. W'hoo!! ☀️ 2. The sun is out and may stay with us for a few days. 😎 3. Youngest leaves school today. He still goes back for the remaining exams, but he doesn't have to be there all the time now. Eeek. 🎓 Stay safe and calm. ❤️

Morning. You OK? #Monday #Wellbeing #CheckIn

Nice Framed #1528 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Started learning modules and practice for the '26 SATS marking. Good grief, this system is slower than a confused tortoise on a roundabout, missing their turn for the 4th time.

Ooh, that’s gonna hurt in the morning!

My #3GoodThings for w/e May 15th, 2026. 1. Week 1 of GCSEs done, still 3 more (and a 1/2 term for, eh hem, more revision). 🧑‍🎓 2. Report writing is not enjoyable, but knowing how much of an impact the report will have is. 📖 3. It's my birthday next week. 🥳

“Edupunk is a state of mind, it’s an attitude, and it’s a belief that the system in its current incarnation does more harm than good, and so much of the damage is born of the increasingly business logic of Higher Ed.” Edupunks Unite? www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/blogging/edu... #EduPunk #Education

April showers? On May 13th? FFS

"Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by how terrifying their financial deficits are"

In addition to expecting more phishing/hacking attacks in the future, #CanvasLMS schools should expect the cost of the LMS to jump sharply, now that Instructure paid the ransom and are being sued by dozens of schools: www.pcmag.com/news/canvas-... & are owned by private equity (KKR)

Morning. It's a bit chilly again today. Meh. 🌦️

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle www.wired.com/story/canvas... Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by the name ShinyHunters.

My #3GoodThings for w/e May 8th, 2026. 1. A very happy & special 100th birthday to the amazing Sir David Attenborough. 🍾 2. Productive calls and emails this week on a future, permanent role. Onwards. 🙏 3. Last full day of school for my youngest, his GCSEs start on Monday. Eeek! 🎓

17 years of using Slideshare, had forgotten about so many of those presentations and poster projects: www.slideshare.net/hopkinsdavid #Slideshare #Presentation #HigherEd #EdTech

WTF are these 'puzzles' on LinkedIn? Why on earth does LinkedIn think this is what a professional network needs? #LinkedIn

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Calling UK Blackboard admin/manager users - would you be open to a call to discuss how you're handling the decommissioning of Learn later this year? #Blackboard #HigherEd #EdTech #DURBBU

"You are not your diagnosis. You're not that prescription in your hand. You are not your diagnosis. Simplified for them to understand." - The Wildhearts - Diagnosis youtu.be/vUNQoLc_ff0?...

Morning. You OK? #Wellbeing #CheckIn

Spam callers have finally caught up with that telltale silence when you answer the call. Now there’s an immediate ‘can you hear me OK?’, expecting you to reply, which you probably will (I just did). THEN they connect you.