Donald Trump is 'racist, sexist and Islamophobic', says Sadiq Khan amid feud with US president

Ed Davey, "It's so frustrating, so infuriating that Nigel Farage gets such an easy ride from the media" "As he lies, as he divides, the BBC and others given Farage so much time and attention" "But they never hold him to account for all the damage he has already done" "The damage of Brexit"

I agree with others that it's not so much the curriculum that makes it inclusive, so much as the ends. We have a very narrow idea of what counts as success at school. At "best" it's often some patronising 'good "for you"' type approach. open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

If you were tasked with designing a fully inclusive curriculum, where would you start? What is absolutely key? Please repost for coverage. #send

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

This. 1000 times this. It’s like we don’t count.

This is why ‘neutrality’ or whatever Badenoch thinks she’s doing here is dangerous. People don’t hear both sides when someone is neutral - that’s a misconception. What they hear is ‘that was okay’. A massive problem in politics. It moves the Overton Window.

The UK has militarily intervened for far worse reasons. BBC News - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

But for the unmitigated personal & family tragedy of #CharlieKirk’s assassination, Steve Hilton’s tribute to him on BBCWorldatOne #BBCwtw is a piece of ghastly whitewash political theatre: erasing entirely his ethno-nationalist theocratic supremacism. & where is the journalistic challenge here??

The release of the new Ofsted framework is unfortunately a good time to repost this from the archives: @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/arc...

This piece of writing is bewildering in many ways… The phrase “dangerously rebellious” is a curious way of describing colleagues who you happen to disagree with. 🫣🤔🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/scho...

“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

‘Retrieval' practice: We're asked a question, and we retrieve the relevant information from the memory. But how do we know what information to retrieve? Don't we need to know the right answer in order to retrieve it? But then this ‘explanation’ presupposes the very skill it’s trying to explain.

‘Retrieval' practice: We're asked a question, and we retrieve the relevant information from the memory. But how do we know what information to retrieve? Don't we need to know the right answer in order to retrieve it? But then this ‘explanation’ presupposes the very skill it’s trying to explain.

Forgot #rED25 #researchEd

Here's my handout from my ResearchEd talk yesterday about the origin of the computational model of knowledge (and how this view contrasts with the normative view of the Sumerians-Aristotle-Wittgenstein) I tried to show different strands of thought: technologial, psychological, neuroscientific etc.

Bernard's talk was really interesting. I loved it.

I have never been so disappointed in a BBC piece. Breathless admiration is, as far as I knew, not the role of the BBC’s political editor when describing a party political conference. Description+detail yes, rigorous examination of the conference content, yes. This, absolutely no, in my opinion.

Here's my handout from my ResearchEd talk yesterday about the origin of the computational model of knowledge (and how this view contrasts with the normative view of the Sumerians-Aristotle-Wittgenstein) I tried to show different strands of thought: technologial, psychological, neuroscientific etc.

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Funding for the serial human rights abusing Libyan Coast Guard might be one of the worst things the EU does that Europeans are largely ignorant about. Many of us like to stay ignorant about it of course.

1. The Flags have arrived in my area. They make me uneasy. It isn't I have a problem with them when we're celebrating something. Football. Olympics. Even a royal wedding. But right now they don't *feel* like a positive affirmation of stuff we like but more a protest against things people don't..

Yes! I think the danger is that we unwittingly provide AI with authority that it logically can't have. LLMs and suchlike will never be able to *determine* the correct answer. When it's "correct" it's because it accords with human judgements.

This picture is what brought @billablehour.bsky.social into being. The soles of Alan’s shoes. I had put away the night before a pair my youngest daughter had discarded in the hallway. In a moment, finally, it was real to me in a way it always should have been. /1

Very interesting @beranews.bsky.social blog from @teachertapp.bsky.social today, especially the huge recent rise in appeals to tribunals. I think one key area where we could do with some clarity is the legal understanding of 'necessary' in 'necessary provision': open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Thank God for the RNLI! ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also

In my opinion, this an essential response to the TES article about reading for pleasure...

1. Once again KS2 reading SATs data used to cite ‘quarter of children struggling’. How many of that 25% got SS of 99 in a snapshot based on one test? I’d challenge anyone to listen to 100 children read (50 ‘passed’ and 50 got 99) and accurately separate the ‘strugglers’ /2

I'm just not entirely convinced by this. Perhaps, if you catch them early enough, but I don't think we can underplay the fact that, for a lot of children, there's just no motivation to read. I'm not sure how context-free teaching is going to help with that.

I would like to coin a word: sanky (adj.) – describing the residual tacky, briny feeling on the skin after exposure to sea water and sand, even after drying off or brushing down. "I towelled off and changed, but I still felt sanky all the way home."

I’m really looking forward to my ResearchEd National talk this year: 'Of Gods and ideas: how intelligence became artificial’. I’m going to chart how our conceptions of learning have evolved (or degraded) over three millennia — from communing with gods to acquiring and organising data.

Trying not to be excited about how much attention this book is already getting. Mostly because of my amazing co-author. Dare I hope to earn back my advance?

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

Now this sounds great fun :)

Essential reading

I’m really looking forward to my ResearchEd National talk this year: 'Of Gods and ideas: how intelligence became artificial’. I’m going to chart how our conceptions of learning have evolved (or degraded) over three millennia — from communing with gods to acquiring and organising data.

It turns out that even racists need their arses wiped by someone. I think there might be something like the barber's paradox lurking there, where the solution is that the barber is an immigrant.

I think I'll call this phenomenon 'shark-eyes teaching' or 'Quint's instruction' or something.

Often when I watch clips of 'great teaching', or exemplary performances of this or that technique, that line from Jaws comes to mind "Another thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at you, he doesn't seem to be living... Until he bites you..."

Yup. @bernardandrews.bsky.social hits the nail on the head. This is one of the biggest blockers to SEND reform

'...the government must be clear about what it is trying to achieve.' One central task for the government is getting clear about what we mean by 'need'. I wrote here about the ambiguity in the current law. open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

"the government is lurching towards a fresh crisis and many families are scared to death about what this could mean for their children with SEND. However, a political disaster is not inevitable, and there is a route out of this mess" says @pepediiasio.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

'...the government must be clear about what it is trying to achieve.' One central task for the government is getting clear about what we mean by 'need'. I wrote here about the ambiguity in the current law. open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

A probably fairly obvious thought that occurred to me today: It's entirely possible to live a very meaningful life without actually being very good at life. I feel like people often confuse the two - think that they must get everything right for their life to be meaningful.

The biggest recurring problem in education: we're not talking about the same thing - either from one moment to the next or as other people. And it's never enough to just give a definition. We need to look at how we use the words.