Finally set on returning to the UK classroom: either primary KS2 or Secondary English. Don't put me off, but do get in touch if you'd like to add some tittering to your staffroom. Please RT.

Finally set on returning to the UK classroom: either primary KS2 or Secondary English. Don't put me off, but do get in touch if you'd like to add some tittering to your staffroom. Please RT.

The Oxford WOTY team's own coverage of 'brain rot' is here if you want to have a dig behind the headlines. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...

I have stage 1 Lyme's Disease! Hooray for the humble tick!

The queue for the microwave is shorter online

How long before we set online homework using AI, pupils use AI to do the work for them, the results get put into a report using AI which is emailed to parents, automatically summarised and replied to using a single click on predictive text?

What is the difference between talking in a staffroom and talking on social media? Do you feel the same sense of audience and tribe when you talk in the staffroom?

Gloriously joyful colours!

I picked up my first pair of varifocals yesterday. It's like living in a fishbowl. Takes a lot of getting used to, but it's nice to be able to read books and then look at people across the living room. All in one fell swoop.

New albums alert for 30th August: Nick Cave's new album 'Wild Gods' and Galliano's first album for 28 years!

Has anyone on here played the video game #DiscoElysium? Do let me know what you thought of it and especially whether you have found any other game that measures up to its literary quality. It's the first game that I genuinely feel is literature: more literary than The Last of Us.

How do we define quality student work in an age of AI? José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson have a provocative answer to this question in their new book, Teaching with AI. In my new blog post, I recap their answer and add a few thoughts of my own. derekbruff.org/?p=4270

If you are grappling with AI in your teaching, I thoroughly recommend this book: practical, neither evangelical nor doom-laden... it will help you to navigate these new waters.

So, last night I had my first back-to-school anxiety dream! ...

Maybe I'll start a hashtag for English Teachers and AI: something like #PrometheusStuffsItUpForUsAgain

If you are a Secondary English Teacher or HOD, please connect with me. This year, I'm particularly interested in rejigging my curriculum and assessments to account for the rising use of AI. If you're interested in putting our heads together, please reach out.

I'd like to change how I use these social media platforms: making them less 'media' and more social. So, if you catch me reposting non-education-related media articles or see me getting whipped up in clickbaiting shenanigans, please tap me on the nose like you would a cat. #Xanonymous

So nice to see so many former EduTwitter friends here now on Bluesky. Please nudge me if I haven't followed you yet. I'm working through the list!

And for those who know, this summer I wrote four chapters of 'The Grammar of Dead Souls'!😃

I've recently acquired a lot of new followers here on Bluesky. How many of us have definitively jumped ship from X since the riots?

I'm reading an amazing book on tackling issues (and identifying opportunities) for AI and education. It's called 'Teaching with AI' by Jose Antonio Bowen et al - and it is very practical on AI detection, school policy and assessment design. I may review once I've read it, if you'd like.

Hi eduBlueSky! This is my home now. Don't go looking for me on X - I am resolutely ex-X.

This blog improbably features a White Carmarthen Pig! whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/n...

”A forever home” is standard phrase of where you end up, but does it reallly exist even if you stay put in one location as I have @whatonomy.bsky.social ? Life, places and people change constantly even without your own actions… whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/t...

There is none like @whatonomy.bsky.social … ❤️ whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/f...

Teaching: the blessing of the curse whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/f...

What if Sisyphus is happy in Hades? whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/t...

What if Sisyphus is happy in Hades? whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/t...

As Blue Monday draws nigh, here is a crumb of whatonomous comfort from my heart to yours: whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/t...

‘The writer shares their opinion online’. My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

About me knee: whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/01/20/b...

Merry Christmas, everyone, with lots of love from the Astons in Prague! xxx

The final series of Surrender Hope begins this evening.

Listening to Peter Gabriel’s new album: it’s remarkable how each of his songs could have been performed at any point in his career; he’s so consistently eclectic. (And his voice is fibrous honey)

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Customer support using AI to reply to customer complaints; teachers using AI to write reports… there are ethical issues here that have a serious impact on our faith in the act of communication. Effectively AI is invalidating digital communication.

The quality of the chocolate is inversely proportional to the excitement of opening the door.

Ride, MBV, Slowdive and now Drop Nineteens. What is it about shoegaze that demands a lengthy but eventually broken hiatus?

My neighbour has ‘No Surprises’ as her ringtone. I wonder if she always sounds a bit low when she answers the phone.

In an age of denunciation and cancellations, teaching The Crucible feels pretty important.

Is there no giffage on here? Is my choice sanity or giffage?

It’s reassuring to find that you can most always just start again.

Thought I’d give it a go here since X is now on fire. Apologies if I still smell of smoke.

Obviously this is very creepy but the really annoying thing about finding out that I was under surveillance by the government is that I have zero desire to speak at DfE events anyway. 🤦‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...