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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 7h

They’ll notice, and then they’ll convince themselves that the dirty lefties will come grovelling back to the sensible grownups in charge at election time if they just claim not voting labour is a vote for farage hard enough…

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 1d

The classic fascist playbook - to target education

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 #Gaza: several Foreign Ministers are gathering in Paris to discuss the peace plan.

If they want more than another fragile ceasefire, they must walk the talk, take concrete, overdue steps, focusing on what’s been ignored for too long: justice and Palestinians' rights. 1/6 ⤵️

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to get your entries in…

Maths Week Scotland @mathsweek.scot · 2d

Last chance to enter the final round of #MathsWeekScot competitions - all closing Friday 10 October!

#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓

Maths Week Scotland @mathsweek.scot · 5d

Don't miss the deadline this coming Friday, 10 October, for our final round of #MathsWeekScot competitions:

⭐ Maths Wi Nae Borders (Secondary School)
⭐ Graph Craft (age 11-16)
⭐ SuperQuesters (age 4-12)

Info for all on our website mathsweek.scot/schools/math...

#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

👌👏👏👏

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 2d

A curious phenomenon that @honeypisquared.bsky.social and I have remarked on frequently…

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone interested in #artbased or #creative research may enjoy the Cambridge Creative Research Conference, which is on 25th October. It's free, fully online, and you can book tickets here: lucyrycroftsmith.com/cambridge-cr...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

This can only end well… 🤦

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmm, why is the telegraph promising me a good time…?

Gimme some more of that sweet sweet progressivism…

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

You've got just a few days left to enter our #infographic competition, open to any student aged 11-16 in #Scotland. More information here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8....
#StatsInTheWild

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

This is just a flavour of our full set of design principles.

Check out the resources and let us know what you think. Would you recommend the resources to another teacher? Do our design principles come across in the materials?

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

Finally, we carefully considered the ways that we are representing #maths the discipline in our materials, taking care not to reinforce harmful stereotypes and actively seeking to connect maths to creativity, joy, and wonder while explicitly considering the social and ethical implications of it.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

Supporting teacher agency is another key principle. We designed the materials to be flexible, carefully wording ideas as suggestions for action to be adapted by teachers to suit their needs.

Student agency is also important to us & the resources encourage students to experiment & play.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

Alongside this is a commitment to equity & accessibility. We designed our materials according to a set of published guidelines, again informed by research.

We also worked with an excellent graphic designer @wmarler.bsky.social who helped with accessibility:
www.cambridgemaths.org/Images/65181...

www.cambridgemaths.org

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

First comes research & evidence. We reviewed stats education research & also research from other subjects relevant to the context of biology & ecology, & aligned our resources to recommendations. Broadly these were: Real or realistic data; active learning; embed technology; & prioritise analysis.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

Have you seen our new #statistics #education resources for #MathsWeekScotland?

Our #StatsInTheWild classroom activities were produced with specific design principles in place. Check out the resources here and read on for more about how we made them!

rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

Stats in the wild

As part of Maths Week Scotland 2025, Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey have produced a set of bespoke evidence-based resources for exploring statistics using outdoor maths. Each set of resources…

rss.org.uk

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 4d

Not to mention the whole trans-inclusive vibe…

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch says her favourite author is Terry Pratchett. One wonders what draws her to the Discworld. The Vimes Boots theory of inequality? The celebration of diversity in Ankh Morpork? The lesson that those who claim to have the answers are not to be trusted?
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · 4d

You've got just a few days left to enter our infographic competition, open to any student aged 11-16 in #Scotland. More information here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8....

#MathsWeekScot

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 4d

Turns out reform don’t have a clue…who knew…?

Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 4d

How it started etc

Darren Grimes says reform will cut waste in Durham

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 7d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · 6d

Friends! We got to interview the excellent @cristinacost.bsky.social about #AI in #education and it was the perfect antidote to the vague, hype-filled nonsense that seems to be everywhere right now. ⬇️

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 6d

Our latest #AI in #Education interview is now up on YouTube.

This time we chat about issues of critical education with Dr Cristina Costa, Associate Professor (Digital futures and education) at Durham University.

AI in Education: Interview with Dr Cristina Costa

Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey interview Dr Cristina Costa, Associate Professor (Digital Society and Education) at Durham University, about AI in education. In this issue we discussed themes…

youtu.be

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