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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 18

The whole rewilding experience just feels like the positive direction that we’re so missing in other areas. Nature is so good at everything, if we start there, it’s a path. #geography #nature #trees

Wild Card @wildcard.land · Jan 17

A brilliant article on #rewilding and a beautifully accessible way of unpacking the nuances if reading academic papers isn’t your bag.

Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · Jan 16

Despite the backlash in recent years (in Ireland anyway!), rewilding is now well established in academic and practical responses to the biodiversity crisis.

w'thanks to @pettorelli.bsky.social & @landethics.bsky.social for their input to this article #rewidling

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 18

Definitely a compliment!

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 18

More of this please - this is what technology should be doing. #tech #geography #geographyteacher

Craig Armiger @craigarmiger.bsky.social · Jan 18

Steve Davies surfer & mushroom farmer from Wales has developed a fully biodegradable surfboard using mycelium the root-like structure of mushrooms. Traditional boards are often non-biodegradable materials like fiberglass & polystyrene, which end up in landfills or oceans when they degrade or break.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 18

It wouldn’t matter what the schools taught - when these kids are on the streets the gang members are absolute authorities on the police and evading the law - the kids believe anything the gang tells them. It’s a type of brain washing.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 17

It’s understandable that they don’t fight. Pensions seem like an archaic thing even though they shouldn’t be. I think young people understand that wealth and income is going to look very different in the future.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 17

I need a good education book editor to help me sort out my manuscript - any recommendations please? #writing #education #editor #editingnonfiction

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 16

That whole piece… I wish it was surprising but it’s just the echoes of justification from generations past

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 16

Soon, many people will know entirely made up facts about everything but won’t even suspect. Terrifying.

Mike Cameron @mikercameron.bsky.social · Jan 16

Why should we be wary of AI?

This is why. The first image is Grok (XAI). The next three are ChatGPT.

Truth is, no PM has ever attended an inauguration. It wouldn’t be their place. That’s why we have a monarch.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 16

I love this site but this is an especially good little graphic - enjoy #geography #life #information #education

Dr James Mannion @rethinkingjames.bsky.social · Jan 16

My friends I bring good news.

Shove this in your peep-holes

informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

Information is Beautiful

Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

informationisbeautiful.net

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 16

My parents who are extremely pro science and vaccines apparently didn’t get us whooping cough vaccines due to a scare at the time (80’s) we had all our others. I deliberated about the sheer number of shots our boys had as infants. It needs a big public health drive.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

In more general terms further to Isabelle’s point - buy in requires community, inclusion and identity - all of which are driven by very different drivers to academic improvement and are much harder to measure. Good schools are felt, not paper exercises.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

Some of the smartest people I know are obsessive doodlers and neurodivergent learners often learn best without ‘tracking’ because it’s not how their attention works. This is why blanket rules are dangerous - they remove the teachers discretion to facilitate real learning as opposed to compliance

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

Poor mental health is the inevitable consequence of the complete removal of security and economic safety from people’s lives. Mental health services are critical but the numbers will just keep rising if people can’t keep a house, job, friends, health etc

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

Have a cousin who has been in prison for over a decade for theft offence on IPP. It’s absolutely insane that this exists.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jan 15

TODAY campaign group @ungripp.bsky.social is holding a drop-in session for MPs in Parliament where MPs can learn about IPP sentences.

Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Room R Portcullis House

If you are an MP & follow me lets work together to end this cruel & monumental injustice

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jan 7

Lord Woodley’s Bill to end the cruel & monumental injustice of the #IPPscandal has passed its 2nd Reading.

Will Prime Minister Keir Starmer now do the right thing & give the Bill government time for a full & proper Committee Stage?

Let’s end this injustice now

youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...

Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

That is why the whole ‘bag’ of rules should be minimal - the more lines there are the more suffocating it feels. Do you need a sock rule? Or an eye movement rule?

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

I loved learning but hated school because of all the petty rules, especially uniform. Felt like every tiny attempt at self expression was stamped on so I played truant a lot.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

I loved that - I avoid rewatching things for that very reason.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

‘ we have to start thinking of school not just as factory that has an output – but as a home, in which students live, grow, and find a sense of belonging in the society that nurtures them.’

Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jan 14

In advance of #NGA2025 on Thursday…
rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-b...

The inequity of exams: why schools are not the same as markets

Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education. In this blog Sammy Wright gives us an insight into...

rethinkingassessment.com

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Is it just an English version of Astrid? I really liked that and I’d be surprised if a remake were any good.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Indeed - I think the issue is too many people who are making those policies are people who liked school, value rules and grew up around education. For those of us that hated school, pointless rules about uniform are just another daily torture. I loved learning but found school suffocating.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

That said, your point about the language is spot on - get rid of the ambiguity and false messaging in favour of transparency.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

It blows my mind that nails, socks and other infractions of essentially mild self expression end up in #isolation and in some schools this can go on for days on end. #behaviour Sweat the small stuff was never meant to be about turning schools into Victorian city states.

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Just watching GofT for the 1st time and it’s awesome!

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Well that should be really helpful 🤬 it’s not like parents haven’t been clamouring to anyone who will listen for literally years!

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Penelope Shortland-Palmer @shortlandpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 14

You don’t need to try to make JRM look like Ebeneezer 🤣🤣

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