Alan Harrison
@httcs.online
Educator, author and podcaster, BSc #ComputerScience, MA in #Education, Teacher Trainer, Tutor and Lecturer, #TeamCompSci #caschat, I'm #Autistic and #ADHD and a LGBTQ+ ally, mental health advocate, proud supporter of DEI. httcs.online
I enjoyed researching and writing this for @seced.bsky.social and must thank Dave Leonard @itbadger.bsky.social of Watergrove Trust for the excellent insight into how they manage #AI in #schools #UKEd #edusky
SecEd@seced.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe DfE #genAI Product Safety Standards offer a framework for safer #AI use in #schools. Alan Harrison – @httcs.online – outlines practical steps on risk, #safeguarding, DPIAs & compliance for leaders: buff.ly/4h5mkvc #education #teaching #edusky
As seen at the Festival of Computing hosted by @craigndave.bsky.social and @aqaeducation.bsky.social My new #coding fluency app six(im).possible().things() is FREE until end September and early adopters get a discounted Teacher Pro subscription for just £99/year. #TeamCompSci #UKEd #Programming
I'm running #computing #CPD for OTSA again next year. All Tue 4pm: > 17 Nov 2026: How to Teach Data Representation > 24 Nov 2026: How to Teach Computer Systems > 23 Feb 2027: AI and Data Literacy > 27 Apr 2027: Preparing for the new Computing GCSE www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/otsa-30340... #TeamCompSci
OTSA
OTSA is a partnership of over 300 schools and organisations who share the belief that we have a moral responsibility to work together for the benefit of all children and young people.
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As seen at the Festival of Computing hosted by @craigndave.bsky.social and @aqaeducation.bsky.social My new #coding fluency app six(im).possible().things() is FREE until end September and early adopters get a discounted Teacher Pro subscription for just £99/year. #TeamCompSci #UKEd #Programming
I wrote this blog ten years ago, but the representation was also a key part of ICT - specifications used to include things like the portability of file formats and linking vs. embedding. #TeamCompSci www.advanced-ict.info/blog/represe...
Blog: The Representation of Data Links the Whole of Computing
A look at how an understanding of how data are represented inside the computer links together the whole curriculum.
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Sounds like a great policy. Should be funded by fossil fuel companies, including installation of solar panels and air conditioning/cleaning in schools. #UKEd
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y agoUnder a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
I enjoyed researching and writing this for @seced.bsky.social and must thank Dave Leonard @itbadger.bsky.social of Watergrove Trust for the excellent insight into how they manage #AI in #schools #UKEd #edusky
SecEd@seced.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe DfE #genAI Product Safety Standards offer a framework for safer #AI use in #schools. Alan Harrison – @httcs.online – outlines practical steps on risk, #safeguarding, DPIAs & compliance for leaders: buff.ly/4h5mkvc #education #teaching #edusky
The DfE #genAI Product Safety Standards offer a framework for safer #AI use in #schools. Alan Harrison – @httcs.online – outlines practical steps on risk, #safeguarding, DPIAs & compliance for leaders: buff.ly/cIHSvkC #education #teaching #edusky
The DfE #genAI Product Safety Standards offer a framework for safer #AI use in #schools. Alan Harrison – @httcs.online – outlines practical steps on risk, #safeguarding, DPIAs & compliance for leaders: buff.ly/cIHSvkC #education #teaching #edusky
The DfE #genAI Product Safety Standards offer a framework for safer #AI use in #schools. Alan Harrison – @httcs.online – outlines practical steps on risk, #safeguarding, DPIAs & compliance for leaders: buff.ly/4h5mkvc #education #teaching #edusky
The DfE #genAI Product Safety Standards offer a framework for safer #AI use in #schools. Alan Harrison – @httcs.online – outlines practical steps on risk, #safeguarding, DPIAs & compliance for leaders: buff.ly/cIHSvkC #education #teaching #edusky
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies * UK politics live – latest updates Shabana Mahmood should be moved out of the Home Office and her asylum policies of “performative cruelty” ripped up by Andy Burnham’s administration, Alf Dubs has said. The veteran Labour peer who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia said the home secretary’s talents “would be better used elsewhere in the cabinet”. Continue reading...
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Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 3mo agoThis is remarkable.
David Dimbleby: "As for the benefits of leaving, 10 years have passed – and we are still waiting." https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-david-dimbleby-brexit-10-years-b2995983.html
I broke the news of Brexit to Britain – we still haven’t seen a single benefit
I’m more convinced than ever that EU membership was far too fraught an issue to put to a simple referendum – and looking
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16) These UK developments sit within a global fascistic turn with some of the most advanced patterns evident in the US; in Germany the AfD leads polls. 17) Democracy collapses much more quickly than most people think, because it doesn't actually have to collapse for it to become non-functional.
14) Meanwhile, many in the UK do not understand how far down this road we already are. A prominent far right extremist was correct when he said that the Overton window has been ‘obliterated'. That is not what many see when culture wars and 'anti-woke' agendas are manufactured to speak for them.
There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵
If a left party (which Labour once was) tries to win votes from the right by validating their talking points, three things happen: - They lose votes to more progressive parties - They do NOT win any votes from the right - The right is emboldened by the support and grows in confidence.
Jak@jaksays.bsky.social · 4mo agoStarmer gave them permission, and they took it with zeal "Islands of strangers" and "legitimate concerns" was only ever going to lead to more bold and unapologetic racism and violence There's a lot of blame to go around
Hitler and Lord Haw Haw had medium wave, around 3KHz and the Daily Mail. Putin and Farage have X,RT and GB News, amplified via the BBC. Reform are destabilising the country.
Should X be banned? Yes. And it should have happened in January when non-consensual sexual imagery proliferated on the site. The government’s inaction on what is becoming increasingly a vehicle for violence and hate is appalling. Much more needs to be done. And quickly.
Republication: Is Banning X Really Censorship - or Long-Delayed Accountability?
Why governments should no longer be willing to ignore a platform architected for harm.
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Reform, Restore and Advance are all white nationalist parties, the children of the BNP, formerly the National Front, formerly the British Union of Fascists. They believe in white supremacy, and do not believe non-white people can be truly British. They are neo-Nazi in nature.
Name this band. Wrong answers only. No, I mean that's the name of the band 😁
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....
Climate targets scrapped. Committees abolished. Climate language removed. What Reform councils have done after taking power. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
Reform in charge: what happens to local climate action now?
Reform’s local election gains have opened a new front in Britain’s climate politics
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I am running the Manchester 10k on Sunday for the MIND charity, if you can spare a few quid that would be purely belter... Please RT. Thank you ! ajbellgreatmanchesterrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/alan4mind
Alan is Running for Mental Health
It's OK not to be OK. Everyone is not OK sometimes. We all know someone who has had struggled with mental health. (If you didn't, well, hello. You do now*) MIND supports millions of people in their ho
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