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Alex J-W

@alexjw.bsky.social

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Maths educator. Often confused by the world. Follow me if you are interested in maths and stats education or professional development in general.

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 10h

Even if she did it is completely classless to tell the press this had happened.

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 21h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... the loons of the modern age - they belong in the lurid accounts of Ancient Rome more than the modern era. These characters are driving AI development whilst building bunkers to protect them from what their perceived risks are. Humanity probably deserves extinction…

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.co.uk

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 1d

Like most failing systems I suspect we have lost the capacity/ability to plan strategically because of the ideology of free market competition as an invisible hand that ´magics’ efficient and effective systems seemingly from thin air…

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Ago. And the only people who will really benefit are those politicians and business people who want to exploit people. Welcome to the new serfdom folks!!!

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

The vast majority of the public had (and still mostly don’t) no interest in leaving the ECHR yet now the bbc report it as a hot potato issue. Why because our media seem intent on recycling the garbage coming out of the mouths of extremist voices this ´swivel eyed’ loons on the Tory right a decade

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... is it because the bbc have decided to amplify the nonsense coming out of right wing nut jobs?

How Britain's ECHR membership became a political hot potato

The extent to which leaving the Convention would make a difference to immigration has been greatly exaggerated, argues Lord Sumption

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

But what is it good for?

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Who for?

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Yep

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

People looking for second, third or fourth homes will be relieved. Mass movement of capital into even more property??

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

It’s all Greek to me

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Why do ice wear camouflage fatigues? It’s doing my head in!

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

It if it is on a white background I won’t be able to read it without getting a headache - this might be about to go circular

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

How will I know it’s not a fake - has your mum signed it?

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Is it laminated though?

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

You monster

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

You can have blue or pink

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Brexit killed them off here more as it clashed two competing principles for the centre right - nativism vs free marketing

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

Should we be using these kinds of ´whiteboards’ to reduce visual stress?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow, a week on from Thursday's attack on the Manchester synagogue, this will be marked as a day of solidarity and mourning by civic groups from across all faiths and none. You are also invited to join online sharing #britainstandstogether

More information
together.org.uk/articles/bri...

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 2d

I just worry that the start of a lesson is quite a busy time with people arriving at different times - does that lead to some students (you know the ones) never doing any retrieval practise?

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 3d

The unspoken metaphor is lost on the poor sap

Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 3d

Does ´retrieval practice ´ have to be done at the start of a lesson. I find it naturally finds a place at all kinds of points in a maths lesson?

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 3d

I know I live in little old England but I get freaked out with all these pictures of these guys decked out in full military style gear. They are on your streets not a foreign war zone??

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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