Had a great time last week delivering one of the A-level residential days for the NCCE @wearecomputing.bsky.social at the STEM Centre in York. I had the joy of explaining the origin of the phrase "2's complement", and doing lots of floating point binary exercises. #TeamCompSci #STEM #NCCE #Computing

Have you subscribed to At the chalk-face yet? At The Chalk Face is our YouTube home for teachers, by teachers – where Craig’n’Dave’s magic comes to life! 👉 www.youtube.com/@thechalkface #TeamCompSci #CraignDave #AtTheChalkface

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

It is unconscionable to use X. To do so gives succour to Musk and all he represents.

Let's hope that 2026 is the year we start to disensh*ttify the internet! pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈 ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals. The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do. #SpaceForAll

Downdetector is down because it’s on Cloudflare

Want students to take great notes? Use the Cornell Note-Taking Method ⬇️ https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/effectively-use-the-cornell-note-taking-method/

Can't read that, cloudflare is down!

The irony of a DDoS protection service going down is off the scale.

Book now for my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine to help you teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

My nerdy friend Tim just got a PhD on the history of palindromes. We now call him Dr. Awkward.

The Sky News investigation into X was a robust, qualitative study providing incontrovertible evidence of something we suspected was true. Now we have the evidence. It's a shame some people are knocking really good journalism.

Places still available on my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine - teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

If you're free on Wednesday after school, why not boost your programming pedagogy with my online short course brought to you by OTSA. #caschat #TeamCompSci #Computing #Programming #PRIMM

Tickets are now available (and free)!! Book your place now on the Big Computing Leadership Conference 2026! Tuesday 13th Jan in Oxford Brookes Uni: rundontwalk.co.uk/2025/11/04/t... Spread the word... #BCLC26 @tigwilliams.bsky.social @httcs.online @eduthingltd.bsky.social @mwimpennys.bsky.social

We’re still waiting for the judge to figure out the jury instructions. Definitions can take time! Thankfully, he need not rule on the distinction among hoagie, sub and grinder.

Go home, AI, you're drunk. #ai #genai #teamCompSci #computing

Great thread for #TeamCompSci I know @advanced-ict.info will be on this like a shot, with a coded solution :)

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Book now for my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine to help you teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

ICYMI - MIT published a superb guide to AI in schools, I reviewed it here on the #EQAITE blog, visit the blog and while you're there why not try out our free app (in beta) for evaluating AI tools for education! #AI #AIinEducation #TeamCompSci

Book now for my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine to help you teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

Places still available on my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine - teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

Book now for my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine to help you teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

Book now for my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine to help you teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

🎧 Bluetooth audio lag? It’s not magic — it’s paperwork! 😅 Encoding, decoding, and a bit of digital chaos all come before you hear the sound. Find out more 👉 youtube.com/shorts/-MKOB... #TeamCompSci #CraignDave #TechExplained #BluetoothAudio

Book now for my #Programming #Pedagogy short course from OTSA. Learn proven techniques like #PRIMM, #SemanticWaves, Parson’s Problems and the Notional Machine to help you teach programming more fluently in Secondary Schools. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, £45. #TeamCompSci bit.ly/otsaprog1

Still places on my programming pedagogy course: bsky.app/profile/httc...

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Book now to ensure disappointment. Or something.

Presented EQAITE at the ICT for Education conference in Salford today, it was a great day, nice to see so many #TeamCompSci folks there. EQAITE.org #ai #Computing

I've been saying this for two years. Why are we governed by people that still use X? "It’s hard not to connect this to the fact that much of the political class remains on a platform now dominated by the political extremes. They might do well to remember: Twitter is not the real world."

Presented EQAITE at the ICT for Education conference in Salford today, it was a great day, nice to see so many #TeamCompSci folks there. EQAITE.org #ai #Computing

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast. Extraordinary. Hope is returning. 💚🚀 Join.greenparty.org.uk

This is a new low even for the billionaire-owned propaganda machines that have replaced the free press in America. It means somewhat less than 0.03% of the impact of all cars on the road globally. So no actual impact worth discussing. This is disgusting ableist pro-fossil-fuel disinfo from @cnn.com

Battery manufacturers: can we just start again at A?

PROGRAMMING TEACHER TRAINING on 12 Nov at 4pm. Excited to be partnering with www.otsa.org.uk to deliver 90 minute courses, starting with #programming #pedagogy for Secondary Computing teachers. Come away with practical, classroom-ready strategies. #TeamCompSci www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/programmin...

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

BOOK NOW for my CPD "Programming pedagogy for KS3 and KS4" 12 November 4pm-5:30pm online. #TeamCompSci #UKEd #UKTeachers #Programming #Computing

Lovely to see my book on @craigndave.bsky.social Youtube channel, (see 15:50 onwards) - thank you chaps, very kind! #TeamCompSci #CSEd #Computing #HTTCS youtu.be/c46vzUh62Rw?...

BOOK NOW for my CPD "Programming pedagogy for KS3 and KS4" 12 November 4pm-5:30pm online. #TeamCompSci #UKEd #UKTeachers #Programming #Computing

PROGRAMMING TEACHER TRAINING on 12 Nov at 4pm. Excited to be partnering with www.otsa.org.uk to deliver 90 minute courses, starting with #programming #pedagogy for Secondary Computing teachers. Come away with practical, classroom-ready strategies. #TeamCompSci www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/programmin...

This is the thing they'll never understand about "wokeness" or "political correctness" - huge organizations didn't implement these policies because of "cancel culture" or secret communists, they did it to stay competitive and viable. It's what people wanted

We had a great day at #PyConUK2025, where we delivered a workshop for young people - teaching them to code a program to notify them when the ISS is above! 🛰️ We chose this project from our brand new APIs curriculum, which you can access at missionencodeable.com/get-started #TeamCompSci @pyconuk.org

Huge shout out for @lessonhacker.bsky.social's Knowledge Bytes series on the @craigndave.bsky.social YouTube channel. Great for helping with those tricky technical questions from the kid who builds their own PC! Entertaining and informative too! youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CASchat #TeamCompSci

Lovely to see my book on @craigndave.bsky.social Youtube channel, (see 15:50 onwards) - thank you chaps, very kind! #TeamCompSci #CSEd #Computing #HTTCS youtu.be/c46vzUh62Rw?...