Coding isn’t optional in robotics and AI, it’s the superpower that turns ideas into movement, vision, and autonomy. If we want tech to reflect all communities, we need all communities writing the code. #NoireSTEMinist #RoboticsForTheStreets #AI #STEMEducation #CSEdWeek #CSPowersAI #Robots #STEM

Turns out UK AI company builder.ai was actually 700 humans in India. So we're taking the jobs back from AI now then? #TeamCompSci

#CSEdWeek is 12/8-12/14. #Teachers, why not get a head start by sharing GRACE HOPPER: QUEEN OF COMPUTER CODE and checking out my educator guide. Thanks to @christinevanzandt.bsky.social for spreading the word. #csedweek #booksky #edusky @steamteambooks.bsky.social @unionsquarekids.bsky.social

Vibe coding like... #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #AIinEducation #caschat

Meta was aware that adult 'strangers' were contacting minors on its sites, that its products impacted teen mental health and that content around eating disorders, suicide and child sexual abuse were frequently detected, yet rarely removed. Horrible but hardly surprising. 🇦🇺 time.com/7336204/meta...

A new paper argues that current generative AI tools offer little benefit for genuine learning unless students already have substantial prior knowledge. genAI gives probabilistic summaries, not the kind of support that builds expertise.

I've read A LOT of academic studies today. This looks better than all of them: The Batman effect: Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A.I. Is About to Become the Best Teacher The World Has Ever Had- And Almost Nobody Is Ready for What This Means! Most of this is untrue or misses what we actually do as teachers. Bless them for trying though. #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #AIinEducation #caschat learn3timesfaster.com/a-i-is-about...

Love this, great take on a classic! xkcd.com/2347/ #CSed #TeamCompSci #caschat

Very excited for Bebras www.bebras.uk, accessible computational thinking, love this week! #CSed #TeamCompSci #caschat

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Is AI exacerbating the digital divide or just highlighting it's there? Schools with better CPD will respond quicker to new tech developments so staff are better trained, engage more, feel more confident etc. www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/u... #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #AIinEducation #caschat

What a relief! Mathematics proves the universe cannot be a computer simulation. interestingengineering.com/culture/math...

Just spent 20 mins playing around with Fortnite Creator having seen it at #CASconf2025. There's no teacher oversight on chats, friend requests etc. It also needs unrestricted access to Fortnite to work. Seems sadly unworkable in a school. Did I miss something? #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #caschat

@mracolley.bsky.social sorry, just realised I never actually asked to be added to the #TeamCompSci starter pack, would you mind adding me if you get a minute.

Anyone in #TeamCompSci off to CAS on Friday? If you're involved in CAS any recommendations for a hub meeting worth attending? I was a Master Teacher back in the day but haven't engaged with CAS for years. Oxon haven't had a meeting for ages. I'd be happy to travel for a good one.

I remember the school drugs adviser telling us that people don't get addicted to substances, but the circumstances under which they take them. He took diamorphine (i.e. heroin) in hospital for a broken back and had no trouble stopping. Should we look for what causes kids to get addicted to phones?

Just stumbled across this explanation of machine learning by Simon Peyton Jones. It's really accessible, I'd really recommend it if you're interested. youtu.be/A2QWxT9a8HU?...

There's an interesting map of GCSE Computer Science provision on this page. If you compare Warwickshire and Birmingham, the percentage of Warwickshire schools offering the GCSE is much higher, but the proportion of students actually taking it is higher in Birmingham. royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

This new study from Yale shows the limited impact of AI on the US job market. Anyone got a study about its impact on the tech sector, junior dev positions etc? budgetlab.yale.edu/research/eva... #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #AIinEducation #caschat

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...

Morgan Stanley warns AI could sink 42-year-old software giant Adobe. I remember using Adobe Photoshop in lessons, then they moved to an online-subscription service. They've been overpriced for years. #TeamCompSci finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-...

Hands up if your interest in computers began with 'hacking' school computers. #TeamCompSci www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone on #TeamCompSci read "Inclusive Computing Education in the Secondary School: Linking Theory and Practice" amzn.eu/d/dFNBC3t Is it any good? I've got space on my summer reading list but £21 seems steep!

"HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems." - www.gov.uk/government/n... Thought this was a hoax, looks like it's genuinely official guidance 🙄 #TeamCompSci

Exciting news, NotebookLM is available to Google Workspace for Education users of any age and for consumers ages 13 and up. The podcast feature makes some great revision resources. blog.google/feed/noteboo...

Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash. "the jury awarded $200m in punitive damages aimed at deterring Tesla from harmful behaviour in the future." Is $200m punitive to Tesla? I guess so if they get it every time Autopilot fails. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

US CS degrees 1964-2022, female uptake getting better for bachelor degrees (peak 1984), MA and PhD have never been as well balanced as now (from a low base) #rstats #DataScience #python #csed #edusky

The cyber security lessons just keep writing themselves... #TeamCompSci #CASchat #CSed BBC News - Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We'll still need programmers for at least another 100 years. #TeamCompSci economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

McDonald’s AI hiring tool’s password ‘123456’ exposed data of 64M applicants, bookmarking this one for a cyber security lesson! www.csoonline.com/article/4020...

Great day! A few @craigndave.bsky.social awards of my own I’d like to give out: 🏆 “Best mug award” - @httcs.online 🏆 “Worst business card award” - @advanced-ict.info 🏆 “Fat peas award” - @janewaite.bsky.social 🏆 “Digital literacy award” - @johnnypalmer.bsky.social #CraignDave #TeamCompSci

We need an insulting name for people who constantly use AI to write emails. Getting irritated by people making me read paragraphs of nonsense when a sentence would suffice. Presumably writing a sentence was beyond them.

Blue Screen Of Death is dead, mixed emotions about this! #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #AIinEducation #caschat www.wired.com/story/so-lon...

🗨️ "Privately educated applicants were 20% more likely to receive an offer than their similarly able state-educated peers in 2024, a rise from 7% in 2023." Valuable new research from @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social highlighting growing inequalities in employment offers ⤵️

Frightening how many colleagues & students see LLMs as genuinely intelligent rather than just identifying and copying patterns of words based on probability. Their answers look plausible because they're the most probable. Got to try and get that into the sept inset training! #TeamCompSci

Can't decide if this being so true makes it funny or horrifying! #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #AIinEducation #caschat

Fascinating episode of In Our Time looking at the history of copyright. No idea it went back to 1710! podcastaddict.com/in-our-time/... via @PodcastAddict #inOurTime #TeamCompSci

Does anyone on #TeamCompSci have any views on today's OCR A-level? Mine were fairly happy apart from a question on nested SELECT statements that was a bit tricky apparently.

Computing is top of the list - although I suppose we don't know how many schools here aren't offering Computing because they don't have the staff. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Intel planning 21,000 layoffs while AI companies can't hire fast enough 📊 Tale of two tech worlds: traditional hardware struggles while AI firms throw money at talent. The great reshuffling continues. https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/tech-layoffs-2025-list/

Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI: a new position paper argues it's more important than ever. This blog from the Raspberry Pi Foundation shares 5 key arguments. www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-kid... #AIEdu #CSForAll

Really keen to try some robotics at KS3 but have the usual budget of £0.0, anyone got any experience/recommendations for robotics simulation software? lab.open-roberta.org www.tinkercad.com/circuits vr.vex.com #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech #caschat #Robotics

The build-out of a dense cluster of energy and water-hungry data centers in a small stretch of Nevada, where climate change is driving up temperatures faster than anywhere else in the country, has begun to raise alarms among water experts, environmental groups, and residents.

"The UK's 500 data centres consume 2.5% of all electricity in the UK, while Ireland's 80 hoover up 21% of the country's total power," When we planned our AI unit we had to cut enviro impact of AI as there wasn't time. Need to try and shoehorn it back in! #TeamCompSci www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really enjoying "Brave New Words, How AI will revolutionise education" by Salman Khan (CEO of Khan Academy). His take on needing to teach coding in the age of AI sounds grounded and realistic.

Surely though if students don't see the point of completing your assignments because #AI can do them you need to be educating them about the value of your assignments or setting different assignments. www.foxnews.com/media/teache...

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright. The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them. 🧵 1/2

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Interesting study on the performance (inc bias) of AI when marking essays. It tends towards the middle giving fewer high or low grades. It's demographic bias was minimal but it did assign lower scores to African American Vs Pacific Islander students. #edtech the-learning-agency.com/the-cutting-...