Richard Oelmann
@richardsedtech.bsky.social
Welsh rugby, English cricket, EdTech and Moodle - not necessarily in that order.
Catalyst IT, learning tech, Higher and Primary Ed
Catalyst IT, learning tech, Higher and Primary Ed
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This details the costs of buying AI subscriptions at universities. Co-pilot, which my university subscribes to, is around $30 per month per user.
No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
OpenAI Inks Deals With Colleges, Seizing Early Lead in Education Market
OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the...
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This details the costs of buying AI subscriptions at universities. Co-pilot, which my university subscribes to, is around $30 per month per user.
No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sharing for no particular reason
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Sharing for no particular reason
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside.
Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!
Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!
May 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside.
Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!
Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I gazed into the Mirror of Galadriel and I saw things that were…things that are…and some things…that have not yet come to pass.
June 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I gazed into the Mirror of Galadriel and I saw things that were…things that are…and some things…that have not yet come to pass.
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'[AI models have] been recklessly jammed into commercial software despite not actually being capable of the things tech companies claim they are.'
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'[AI models have] been recklessly jammed into commercial software despite not actually being capable of the things tech companies claim they are.'
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It’s a short week folks! Hang in there.🙄🤣
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It’s a short week folks! Hang in there.🙄🤣
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Congratulations to Maren Deepwell on being awarded Honorary Life Membership of ALT! This honour celebrates her incredible leadership, dedication, impact in shaping the future of learning technology. Thank you, Maren, for inspiring educators, technologists, learners everywhere. buff.ly/58LnOTU #altc
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Congratulations to Maren Deepwell on being awarded Honorary Life Membership of ALT! This honour celebrates her incredible leadership, dedication, impact in shaping the future of learning technology. Thank you, Maren, for inspiring educators, technologists, learners everywhere. buff.ly/58LnOTU #altc
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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
linkletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Multiple loud fireworks still going off here at nearly 11pm. Unnecessary, unreasonable!
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Multiple loud fireworks still going off here at nearly 11pm. Unnecessary, unreasonable!
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Genuinely, fuck off with the fireworks already.
a poster for bruce lee 's enter the dragon shows a woman and says be quiet
Alt: a poster for bruce lee 's enter the dragon shows a woman and says be quiet
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Genuinely, fuck off with the fireworks already.
Happy Birthday Bohemian Rhapsody! Fifty today!
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Happy Birthday Bohemian Rhapsody! Fifty today!
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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Please spare a thought for your Digital Education team helpdesk staff in these difficult times.
[Makes a bucket of coffee]
[Makes a bucket of coffee]
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Please spare a thought for your Digital Education team helpdesk staff in these difficult times.
[Makes a bucket of coffee]
[Makes a bucket of coffee]
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The polls are lying to us.
10 elections this week.
7 wins LibDems.
1 win Reform by a whisker.
10 elections this week.
7 wins LibDems.
1 win Reform by a whisker.
October 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The polls are lying to us.
10 elections this week.
7 wins LibDems.
1 win Reform by a whisker.
10 elections this week.
7 wins LibDems.
1 win Reform by a whisker.
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It's #AdaLovelaceDay today, celebrating the life of the worlds first computer programmer.
#womeninstem #stem
#womeninstem #stem
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It's #AdaLovelaceDay today, celebrating the life of the worlds first computer programmer.
#womeninstem #stem
#womeninstem #stem
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The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values
Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
October 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values
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Important. Please watch.
October 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Important. Please watch.
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This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject
This marketing term is causing untold harm, of course, mostly to the naive and gullible. But it’s surprising how many educated and apparently intelligent people are placing an unwarranted degree of trust in these programmes.
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject