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Robert Mitton
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Co-founder @ britethink.co 💻 🌍 | Innovating Edtech with AI | Researching sociology of AI in education & assessment | EdD @ UCL | Mapping skill standards | Traveler & remote worker
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lnkd.in/e_Kzez8p #Edtech #EdAi #teachertraining
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Back in #Dubai #Uae … time for some sightseeing before the work starts #Edtech #Remotework
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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timeshighered.bsky.social
University staff are under pressure to produce more with less. But what if, instead of using #GenAI to save time, we took a slower approach? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/use-genai-slow-down-and-reflect-more-deeply #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Use GenAI to slow down and reflect more deeply
University staff are under pressure to produce more with less. But what if, instead of using GenAI to save time, we took a slower approach?
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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lnkd.in/e_Kzez8p #Edtech #EdAi #teachertraining
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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AI is evolving fast.

Humans? Still catching up.

Respect isn’t built on punctuality or perfection, it’s built on empathy, honesty, and curiosity.
That’s the real upgrade we need. #Edtech #Edai #ai #education
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
So important that European educator unions are getting together to agree ways forward on AI in both schools and HE - and especially that they are *not* partnering with big AI firms as the US teachers' union has done.
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social
🚀 Just launched! UCL's Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report

Celebrating the work of researchers, innovators & partners from UCL and beyond, the report highlights how innovation can improve lives and benefit humanity.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4niclx3
Launch of the Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report
UCL Grand Challenges has launched the Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report, celebrating almost a decade of pioneering research and collaboration exploring how innovation and tech...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Six months into our new BRITEthink software journey, and it’s been both exhilarating to see how far we’ve come... and how much we continue to learn. Launching both Arabic and English versions simultaneously was ambitious, but essential to reflect the diverse communities we serve #ai #EdAi #edtech
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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AI is already in your classroom — are you ready for it?

This practical, one-hour CPD session will help teachers confidently navigate the challenges and opportunities of AI in education. #ai #Edai
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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It’s been fun to be on a podcast this week. Speaking about what I enjoy. youtu.be/M6CJgiEcl1I #ai #Edtech #aibias #machinelearning #Edai #research
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I was preparing some notes on what decolonising Ai looks like, in the theme of vocational training. It can mean a lot of things, but changing to data or getting it more localised it not enough…the AI entity will still think like a western/euro-centric way

#ai #decolonizingAi #machinelearning
October 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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3 impactful days, discussing assessment, ai and ethical use in assessment and culture. My first time to #Learn2025 but one which will give me more runway to work in the Kingdom #ai #assessment #TVET #learning
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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A thing of beauty #Riyadh #Riyadhmetro #SaudiArabia
October 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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bookshop.org
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD
A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Some great things to take away from day 1 @ Learn in Saudi Arabia. Good to see discussions forming around effective #Ai use, it’s parameters and #equity in digital education #Edtech #SaudiArabia
October 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The start of year 2! Today, I’m back at @ucl.ac.uk for year 2 of my EdD. I’m looking forward to continuing my research in AI within vocational education, with interests in technology-social constructivism and decolonizing AI 🤖

#UCL #ai #EdD #Research #doctorate
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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An interesting read covering many areas. The key parts which stuck out for me was now 'uneven funding' of adult skills from devolution, it seems to be providing unequal opportunities. It has also impacted many high quality national providers

#furthereducation #training #skills
September 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I had the pleasure of visiting London’s Ismaili Centre today, a truly unique space that blends spiritual reflection with cultural openness and stands as a symbol of pluralism in the heart of the city.

Here is a shot of the roof garden with the tower from the V&A in the background

#OpenHouseLondon
September 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 27 Aug 1889 the great strike of East End Jewish tailors in London, UK began during a dockers' strike. Despite the antipathy of the dockers' union leader, the tailors held out until October when the employers caved in stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9881...
August 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
robertmitton.bsky.social
In the past year, I’ve chosen my research to focus on techno-social constructivism, exploring how people and technology co-create knowledge within education and assessment. #ai #Edai #Edtech #phd
August 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Back in #cumbria #lakedistrict
August 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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One of our founders is currently traveling across Asia and today connected with our BRITEthink partners in Malaysia 🇲🇾. They’ve been using our assessment platform to deliver NCFE/CACHE qualifications in Early Years and Adult Social Care. #EdTech #VocationalEducation #TVET #Training #MadeInTheUK
August 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Some break away from #Edtech and #ai and looking for ideas for some
Canvas I’ve got #creative
August 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM