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Blayn Parkinson
@blayn.bsky.social
Educator and Educationalist - Interests: Professional identity, Digital Capabilities + Practice, Pedagogy, TEL, AI in Ed, Personal Learning/Knowledge Management. Games, Gaming, Game-based/Playful Learning, TTRPG, Storytelling, Motorbikes, good Whisk(e)y.
L&D staff face challenges supporting colleagues with GenAI. The anxiety around these tools is often intensified by stern institutional language (e.g compliance training). Let's foster positive engagement by encouraging creativity and productivity, not just compliance! #PositiveAIAdoption #HigherEd
April 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
History is littered with the stories of once-successful companies that failed to adapt and innovate. Kodak, Blockbuster, Polaroid, and Compaq are just a few. I feel that AI is the technological leap that education will struggle with.

Gen AI: Do the Locomotion open.substack.com/pub/neededno...
Gen AI: Do the Locomotion
Professor Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching), Queensland University of Technology
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’ve demanded that Sky stops buying ads and funding hate on GB News. Join me and @GoodLawProject now to increase the pressure goodlaw.social/st08
Sky must stop funding hate speech
CW: Homophobia, hate speech Sky launched its programme for Pride 2024 with a ringing declaration the company was “proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories”. But while it was posting shiny videos claiming to ...
goodlaw.social
March 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Blayn Parkinson
Echo chamber my arse. When I go to the pub for a quiet drink I sit with a couple of good friends and we have a nice chat.

I don't feel the need to take a couple of racist twats to have them call me a cunt all evening for a bit of balance.

Twitter can get fucked.
November 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
After walking away from Twitter (X) a year ago it feels good to find somewhere with meaningful and considered conversion again The Sunday morning coffee, bacon butty and scroll of enlightenment has returned; how I have missed you... hail one and all 🖖 😀
November 17, 2024 at 11:36 AM
After a depressing week in the news; this is a ray of karmic joy.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:52 PM