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@risu.bsky.social

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edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · Oct 18

I like to re-share this picture of me presenting at Google to an audience including the FBI, because yes, I will fight for digital rights and better privacy and security by design. And I will have great hair while I rip apart tech bro work and egos. Especially edtech egos.

Me standing in front of slide that reads we need careful, considered thoughtful privacy design so that life can be led recklessly,fuy, fearlessly

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 11h

It isn’t normal for fingerprints to be taken for payment, for cctv in toilets or for detentions for forgetting a pen. And for all of this data to be shared with hundreds of third parties which is probably already impacting employment and finance opportunities

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 11h

One of my aims this next school year is to awaken communities to the risk edtech poses to their digital rights. And how it is being used to render schools like prisons

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 11h

Oh welcome to my world and the world of fighting edtech and teachers institutionalised to it

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 12h

Hahah omg yes. I should do a search

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 13h

I want you to enjoy that a student this week changed into a fruit costume, we won’t say which one, names changed to protect the innocent etc, ran amok, changed back and NO ONE KNOWS WHO IT WAS because they need to check all the cctv. I have to say, you couldn’t make U.K. school life up.Fruit anarchy

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 17h

Right! I am THAT parent always. Why even send a message like this? Who sits and writes that and puts it into an app and then sends it out. Like pls. Check yourself bc you are wrecking kids

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

Oh indeed. I’ve worked for companies that do this and more. And the employees often don’t know

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

Listen, I have a few hours a week free and can speak fluent French. I could sub in for them until Christmas

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 23h

@risu.bsky.social 😆😆😆 but also WTAF

A screenshot from Reddit showing an email from an automated tracking system informing a British parent that their child left lessons 3 times last week to go to the bathroom, and subtly hinting that that is unacceptable.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

UN convention on rights of the child says what

Also : why can we go to the bathroom at will as adults but you can’t at school?

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

Happy to talk on this my email is risuandinu at gmail dot com

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

I haven’t seen your work, but I think across teaching and early career we need to be focussing on tech governance and digital rights of the child. And that a teacher cannot judge a t&c or an app, that’s why corporate have teams of GRC. And no edtech is safe to use in corporate environments.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Recent success in schools :when asked if I use Gen ai I just reply “no I am not a slopper”

When I explain that term it makes people REALLY uncomfortable that there could be a derogatory term for something presented as cool. No one wants to be a slopper

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like it could be your retirement gig.
I can see you at bah mitzvah and weddings and quincenera. You could make a fortune .

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Also the “early years” stuff is all elitist and eugenics- and this is no different. Writing kids off if they have adverse experiences while her own family ain’t exactly doing great. Whose is? Perhaps less jumping on right wing screen free bandwagons would do the royals some good. Perhaps go offline

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

centreforearlychildhood.org/news-insight...

Absolutely ridiculous stuff supposedly from a woman who is obsessed with being an online influencer instead of getting out in real life with humans, got a fake photo kill noticed by AP, and still communicates via twitter. She did not write any of this.

The Power of Human Connection in a Distracted World - CFEC

centreforearlychildhood.org

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Research backed in air quotes here. Can we do better and have someone from a marginalised group talk about inclusion. Not just buzzwords

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 1d

An article in which Alex Q is paid to regurgitate an EEF Guidance report- an organisation he works for.

Oh dear.

bsky.app/profile/tesm...

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

With the new Ofsted inspections focusing on inclusion, @alexjquigley.bsky.social recommends that schools deliver teaching that is ‘inclusive by design’ – and shares 5 research-backed strategies for this ⬇️

Inclusion ‘by design’: why it matters and how to do it

With the new Ofsted framework taking a broad view of inclusion, it’s even more important to make teaching inclusive ‘by design’ and not by accident, suggests Alex Quigley

www.tes.com

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

I flinch every time someone senior quotes EEF as if it is something independent

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

I have had similar and I despair

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

My kids get Seneca etc which is mostly LLM generated and marked by ai

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I agree. It is awful! I couldn’t do it now. It was bad enough years ago

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

As one example one excellent trainee told me they had struggled for a while to get Gen ai to create a worksheet for Spanish vocab. That would have been done in minutes in a collaborative group or even a chat with another teacher. You’d get a whole unit of work most likely from an experienced teacher

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Talking to our cohort of trainee teachers and they are all using gen ai. I get it for lesson planning ( no one reads that bs) but when I warn them about not isolating, not giving IP to these apps and the value of community, they look at me like I am mad. Teacher training is letting them down imo

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

It is a real pain tbh over here in Europe as we can’t park our tanks or missile launchers without a permit except on weekends. I had to downsize to a Toyota

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