Is this supposed to be adding value to education using AI?

Yet, teachers don’t use Oak materials as they do not think they are worth using?!

Why use ChatGPT when there are years and years of past papers?

How many of these teachers are examiners? Surely they want to bring their own knowledge and experience to supporting their students?

Note to employers wanting to seem inclusive: if you're a small construction company that employs zero black people, don't do your promotion with an Instagram post featuring an AI-generated video of three black people, one of whom is using a wheelchair, in a hospital corridor.

Surely A Level History is an essay/long form answer examination?

Wouldn’t she be better prepared by practising exam questions under timed conditions and noting what she doesn’t understand or can’t recall?

This seems suboptimal.

AI in Education: no more marking, lesson planning... teaching... learning? To replace time-consuming pedagogical practices, artificial substitutes can often leave a lot to be desired and/or represent significant compromise... (read more)

Interesting blog about AI, machine learning and all it means for teaching and learning

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe

Academy CEO pay rises again, but women miss out at the top Almost 100 academy trust bosses are paid eye-watering salaries of more than £200,000

💸 Investigation: Almost 100 academy trust bosses are paid eye-watering salaries of over £200,000, prompting calls for an NHS-style executive pay framework

Read our annual CEO pay audit in full 🔽
schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-boss...

Academy CEO pay rises again, but women miss out at the top Almost 100 academy trust bosses are paid eye-watering salaries of more than £200,000

Schools as businesses and a stubborn gender pay gap…. An education system in trouble…

schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-boss...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.

But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.

Keep funding science!

It's great to see the #CLiPPA Poetry Award shortlist! It's the UK's leading prize for poetry for children, highlighting brilliant new collections for the young 📖 Congratulations to all the @theclpe.bsky.social shortlisted poets 🌟

More for schools here: r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/1RW5-1LFF/...

There is a real sadness watching schools accelerate into more tech and social media adoption, all while the same tech/socials are openly run against every core value that any school claims to have.
So respect, safety, kindness, ethics don’t matter if there are likes to be had

SEND reforms 'risk overlooking developmental language disorder' Charity calls on government to improve training and support plans for pupils with DLD

There is a ‘major blind spot at the heart’ of the government’s SEND reforms, says @speechandlanguk.bsky.social report that highlights the need to improve support plans for pupils with DLD

How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them A longer analysis of why the 2026 midterms may be far closer than they look, focusing on marginal districts and voter suppression

All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.

I've done a deep dive in my latest post.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...

New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism A Danish study involving over 1.5 million children has found no significant link between prenatal Tylenol (acetaminophen) use and autism.

Well this is interesting: New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism

Hope that everyone in the 🍊🤡 administration reads this!!!

www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

The Government’s failed to recognise the 1.3 million young people with Developmental Language Disorder in its SEND reforms.

That’s two in every 30 children… Missing. Forgotten. Left behind.

You have the power to change this. Demand action from your local MP now!👇
https://bit.ly/4cwvHLP

Thinking of starting a substack and/or tiktok account that is so wildly popular I earn lots of money. Probably mix some niche psych/neuro theoretical views with centrist dad-leaning, but occasionally surprisingly left-wing, politics. Should work right?

This is awful.

bsky.app/profile/samf...

Remember the push for learn to code and STEM jobs? Yeah. All of it fake to sell courses and tell you to jump ten more hurdles while you ignored careers in arts and humanities.

Any other career is better.

Talking to more and more Heads that are struggling to cope with the demands of the job. I'm convinced we need to redesign our roles, acutely assess how we spend our time, re-evaluate priorities and change. We can't work the way we did 5 or 10 years ago, the game has changed.

In the absence of authorial agency and meaningful purpose, competence appears motivationally inert. Pupils may feel capable as writers without ever experiencing writing as an enjoyable or self-endorsed pastime. 👇

Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.

“Now that the NICE cost-effectiveness threshold has been raised and will allow the NHS to pay more for drugs, I would therefore plead with the drug companies to reach an agreement on price that will finally allow women like me to try it.” - Nora

On this day in 1896, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 18 Jan 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and son and on the 28 Apr 1942 to the Zamošč Ghetto which was liquidated in Nov 1942. They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Kamila Bandlerová

I am puzzled by the endless contradictions. No social media, no screens because they are bad for children, yet online tutoring, AI tech all fine.

Yet they all come from the same place and present similar issues.

And no attempts are being made to manage these issues…

Nothing makes sense

Lancaster is a brilliant city (well, town with delusions of grandeur) to live in, with a great arts scene. It's also extremely welcoming to anyone new. I work in Manchester now but live here still because it's so lovely. Not my field at all but apply and I'll see you in the Gregson

A purple square listing with white and yellow text and golden stars, listing stallholders for the 2026 Free Verse Fair. A full list can be found in the caption of our post from Saturday 11th April.

With just one week to go until the Free Verse Fair, here's a rundown of all of the incredible presses and publishers who'll be at the event! Grab your FREE tickets at the link in our bio to come along and meet them all.

The Influence of Language and Cognition on Intervention Effects in Young Autistic Children: A Meta-Regression Analysis Background: Young autistic children have a range of language and cognitive abilities and, as a result, may differentially benefit from interventi...

Young autistic children have a range of language and cognitive abilities and, as a result, may differentially benefit from interventions supporting skills in these and related domains.

https://on.asha.org/4mzOB9d

AI models ‘subliminally’ transmit biases when training other systems Using artificial-intelligence to teach other models can be cheaper and faster than building them from scratch, but this approach can introduce dangerous traits.

Go on, surprise us.

Decades of research into human biases, decades of research into histories of science and technology, decades of research into machine learning...and yet here we are rediscovering and reinventing that wheel again...

DfE warned over ‘chronic shortage’ of educational psychologists The worst-affected area of the country reports having only one educational psychologist for every 9,400 pupils, research by the Education Policy Institute reveals

The government’s plans to make mainstream schools more inclusive are threatened by a ‘chronic’ shortage of educational psychologists, @edupolicyinst.bsky.social report warns

What these articles miss is the adult behaviour
Adults, especially ones on Twitter, often in education, often behave terribly. They also post children online.
Every phone free school I know in the U.K. has teachers on tiktok, children posted online, often on the social media named in ban proposals