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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Aug 18

#AI #Education #DfE #Guidance

Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Aug 18

DfE & Ofsted have updated guidance on AI in education
DfE: Training modules on safe/effective AI use & policy stressing professional judgement, safeguarding, data & IP.
Ofsted: Won’t inspect AI tools, but will look schools use impact on learners.
Early adopters: The biggest risk is doing nothing.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Aug 18

DfE & Ofsted have updated guidance on AI in education
DfE: Training modules on safe/effective AI use & policy stressing professional judgement, safeguarding, data & IP.
Ofsted: Won’t inspect AI tools, but will look schools use impact on learners.
Early adopters: The biggest risk is doing nothing.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education

www.gov.uk

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Jul 2

Great to be at the Festival of Computing today in Bromsgrove School #Computing #FestivalOfComputing25

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Jun 6

Check out CrowPi 3: Al Learning and Development Station by Elecrow on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ele...

CrowPi 3: Al Learning and Development Station

All-in-One Learning Tool | AI Tech Integration | Multi-SBC Support | Rich Learning Resources | Raspberry Pi 5 Cyberdeck

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Jun 6

www.crowpi.cc
Check out the CrowPI. Looks really good for teaching physical computing #TeamCompSci #CSed #STEM #STEAM #CompSci #Edtech

CrowPi Official Store | Raspberry Pi Laptop, Raspberry Pi Kit

The CrowPi series are Raspberry Pi based laptop catered to students, experimenters, Maker, Raspberry Pi fans. CrowPi intended to be used in STEM learning environments and rapid prototyping of Raspberr...

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 27

#TeamCompSci

Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 27

The TPEA conference is coming up soon! Unfortunately I can’t make this year, but it should be a great couple of days. #Edtech #Education #Conference #Computing #CSEd #Research

tpea.ac.uk/2025conferen...

2025 TPEA Conference – TPEA

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 27

The TPEA conference is coming up soon! Unfortunately I can’t make this year, but it should be a great couple of days. #Edtech #Education #Conference #Computing #CSEd #Research

tpea.ac.uk/2025conferen...

2025 TPEA Conference – TPEA

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 23

Explore the AI Literacy Framework—helping learners understand, use & create with AI ethically.
#AI #EdTech #AILiteracy #DigitalSkills

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 23

My son's homework last week was to create a Andy Warhol picture of some homeware. He created this on Apple Keynote with the iPad and the Apple Pencil. #ApplePencil #DigitalArt

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 23

Just arrived today! In my Kindle App
One Pagers Volume 2 to with my Volume 1
These are so useful for out #ITE #PGCE students for their professional studies sessions.

Fantastic work by Jamie once again! Thanks 🙌 @xpateducator.bsky.social

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · May 23

Super pleased to see that one of our BA Primary Teacher Education Trainnee Students has choosen to do their assignment poster for my module on foundation subjects about #Computing based on my seminars with them. #ITE #ITT #Primary #Education #DigitalLitracy

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Prof Miles Berry @milesberry.net · Apr 23

Thanks so much for visiting, and teaching us Crumble!

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Apr 23

Had a great day with @milesberry.net running a physical #computing workshop with his cohort of #PGCE computing students @uni-roehampton.bsky.social #TeamCompSci #ITE #ITT

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Tom Sherrington @teacherhead.bsky.social · Feb 18

In Action. Very proud of this series… Congratulations to @neilgilbride.bsky.social - welcome to the gang! @johncattedu.bsky.social

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Jamie Clark @xpateducator.bsky.social · Apr 17

⚠️ POOR PROXIES FOR LEARNING! Just because students are busy, engaged, or writing doesn’t mean they’re learning. Learning happens when students have to think hard! In this issue, I explore proxies for learning highlighted by @profcoe.bsky.social and what to do instead.

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https://newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/poor-proxies-for-learning

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Jamie Clark @xpateducator.bsky.social · Mar 29

🫀 CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING! This new guide dives into the heartbeat of responsive teaching. CFU is crucial for making the invisible visible and capturing data needed to adapt teaching in real time.

🌱 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE HQcopy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

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Jamie Clark @xpateducator.bsky.social · Apr 18

📧 FREE NEWSLETTER! Subscribe to ⚗️DistillED and refer colleagues to get three unreleased A3 guides: Building Motivation, Adaptive Teaching, and Clear Explanations!

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Apr 11

#TeamCompSci

Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Apr 11

Great to have the latest edition of HelloWorld magazine @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social the Teacher Symposium on Teaching AI was a fantastic day! Thanks again @janewaite.bsky.social for bringing us all together. #teamcompsci #HelloWorld #EduSky #AIEdu #Computing

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Apr 11

Great to have the latest edition of HelloWorld magazine @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social the Teacher Symposium on Teaching AI was a fantastic day! Thanks again @janewaite.bsky.social for bringing us all together. #teamcompsci #HelloWorld #EduSky #AIEdu #Computing

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Apr 3

Had a great chat today with @janewaite.bsky.social all about data-driven systems, data and information, and how we might teach this to our trainee teachers and ultimately children.

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janewaite.bsky.social @janewaite.bsky.social · Apr 3

8th April Online seminar on teaching data science in school David Weintrop and team. raspberrypi.org/research/sem...
17:00 GMT / 12:00 ET / 9:00 PT / 18:00 CET @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social @csedresearch.bsky.social
@theaieducator.io
@nctm.org @ncetm.bsky.social @computingatschool.bsky.social

Computing education research seminars

We host regular free online seminars about current computing education research topics. The seminars are your your opportunity to hear about the latest news in the field directly from researchers arou...

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Alan Harrison @httcs.online · Apr 3

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!
Rebecca Franks and I talk about Flip Computing, Quality First Teaching and Flock XR, Flip Computing's new, free, 3D creation tool that bridges the gap between Scratch and Blender. Also I wait while you donate to keep the podcast alive. bit.ly/4cettjo
#TeamCompSci #caschat

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Andy Colley @mracolley.bsky.social · Apr 1

Very interesting stuff here #teamcompsci

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Mar 31

We've been sceptical about AI marking. Not any more!

When the facts change, we change our minds.

We think this is really big.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/so-can-ai-...

So, can AI assess writing?

Results of our big new Comparative Judgement AI trial

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Computing and ICT in a Nutshell @advanced-ict.info · Apr 1

Curious changes to GCSE Computer Science from the DfE. #TeamCompSci
- if there are no topologies why do you still need to know about switches?
- doesn't discussion of magnetic/optical/solid-state get students to think about the the whole two-state representation thing, and why computers use binary?

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Matt Wimpenny-Smith @mwimpennys.bsky.social · Mar 31

Had a great day with our BA Y2 trainees—exploring digital literacy, then getting hands-on with Scratch, coding quiz games using selection (if, then, else). Lots of lightbulb moments 💡

Also… very happy that my Scratch coffee cup finally arrived! 🧡🐱☕ #ComputingEd #Scratch #ITT #TeamCompSci

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