Yesterday on the Internet. @xkcd.com called it years ago and is probably getting mentioned to oblivion. #TeamCompSci #CasChat
Andy Colley
@mracolley.bsky.social
11-18 Computer Science teacher | Director of Computing | CAS master teacher | NPQLT | Lead practitioner - T&L | LearningDust podcast host | Parkrunner, bass player, cyclist #TeamCompSci #CASchat #EduSky
I've experienced various apps from both staff and parent perspectives. Yet to find one that is even barely competent and anything other than infuriatingly painful to use.
Shell@risu.bsky.social · 3w agoA member of senior staff at my children’s school sent an email via the school app- about the rain tomorrow and bringing an umbrella. Sigh. And the app has now sent me that email 6 times, 3 times for each child. All this AI and edtech and we can’t do basic comms.
Possibly my favourite thing about working in schools is sneaking 80s song lyrics into conversations with kids. Finished 5/10 questions? Woah, we're halfway there! Not following the one way system? Turn around bright eyes. #Edusky #TeamCompSci
Lots of behaviour advice is bad. FLMOP isn't. It's a concrete and tangible strategy that any teacher can use to improve behaviour in their classrooms. Read and share 🙏🙏🙏 carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/flmop
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Getting better behaviour in the classroom isn’t unattainable. There are simple strategies that really work, and FLMOP is one of the best.
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Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.
As a teacher, this is entirely unsurprising. If you ask AI to do your homework, it's worse than not doing it. You've learnt nothing, practiced nothing, but come away with such a sense of achievement that you're now even less likely to do any other form of revision.
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2mo agoWoah.
And now time for that uniquely British summer tradition: where we castigate ourselves, our education system and most of all our young people for going on to be better educated than ever before.
It’s August, it’s time to promote my all time blog big hit. Share with the NQTs and those wanting a refresh in September. drwilkinsonscience.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/s...
Starting with a new class
A lot of talk today on twitter about new starts in September, I replied to a tweet from Science NQT Mr_J_Zahn asking for tips on introduction lessons with a new class for September and I starting w…
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I did maths at school but I must have missed the class where they said a km is 1,000 meters. I thought it was 1024 until I spoke in a seminar at university and felt a shame that's lasted for 31 years so far.
Another excellent #FestivalOfComputing this year. Delivered my session, put the world to rights with familiar faces and learned loads. Oh, and I got the best delegate number as well! Thanks to Craig Dave, Johnny Palmer FCCT CITP, Fran Round and everyone at Bromsgrove School for organising.
Want a cyber security lesson? Just go to the BBC news tech page. There's pretty much one good example a day on there now. #CASchat #TeamCompSci BBC News - How 100 hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-attack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How 100 Romanian hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-attack
For four days, dozens of Romanian hospitals went offline, as cyber-experts sought to defeat the hackers.
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Call to action! Please can you share a link to my free AI unit? I'd really appreciate your help in getting this out. There have been almost 140 downloads so far, from teachers saying they have 'little to no' teaching on AI currently. Thanks so much everyone! rundontwalk.co.uk/2026/06/09/h...
How do we introduce AI into the classroom?
The world of education is flooded with AI products; promises to reduce teacher’s workload, streamline planning and differentiation, virtual tutors and mentors and even AI tools pupils can use in th…
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Imagine having a megaphone that large and pretending you’re silenced.
Just popped a new resource on the @computingatschool.bsky.social site. OCR J277 trace tables practice booklet. #CASchat #TeamCompSci #Edusky www.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/20...
OCR J277 Trace Table Practice Booklet
25 OCR J277 trace table practice tasks
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How about a follow up question about how happy you'd be to have this set as the work for a class you're covering @teachertapp.bsky.social?
For fans of entirely spurious numbers, the UNIX timestamp is about to hit 17777777. Hold on to your butts!
Interested in the age split on this @teachertapp.bsky.social question. Also the opinions of those of us old enough to have had students sitting/resitting/studying for different modules in the same class. Whilst also managing coursework.... #Edusky #teamcompsci
Yes I think this is true and something people outside teaching don't understand well enough. The greatest driver of learning is motivation and humans are not naturally motivated to want to learn stuff. So you need to be inspired to do it. Humans are needed for that.
Mr E@theniceman.bsky.social · 7mo agoAI can replace teaching. But it can't replace learning.
When I first started teaching, teachers made their own resources, which gives you a much better understanding of why you're teaching something and where it's leading. Now lots of teachers buy them because we don't even get time to do the actual job properly.
the feeling I'm getting using Claude at work is that if you're a good engineer with deep knowledge of the codebase, it can make you a lot more productive. if you're a mediocre engineer with surface level knowledge of the codebase, it can also make you a lot more productive, which is BAD.
Let's remember this during options evenings, assemblies and lessons - "...the knowing of knowledge can and should be an end in itself in a civilised society..." www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse all work for Pimlico Plumbers
I heard the prophet of the AI-driven end times foretell our doom in chilling detail last week. It was Reform donor Charlie Mullins on LBC
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