Prof Carol Davenport
@thedrdav.bsky.social
Spend my time thinking about crochet blankets, education, and children's career aspirations. Not necessarily in that order.
I enjoyed reading this. Clear discussion of the problem with yet another 'literacy'.
When everything becomes a literacy, the word stops meaning anything. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/does-ai-li...
Does "AI Literacy" Actually Mean Anything?
Another day, Another Literacy.
carlhendrick.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I enjoyed reading this. Clear discussion of the problem with yet another 'literacy'.
I mean, he studied at Northumbria University, but that makes it even better.
Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I mean, he studied at Northumbria University, but that makes it even better.
Reposted by Prof Carol Davenport
Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?
As a parent, I work really hard not to have a favourite child. The long-running cosseting of Andrew is pretty strong evidence that QE2 very much did have a favourite child.
Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute
Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute
Jettisoning of ex-prince became unavoidable when king’s loyalty to his brother collided with task of keeping public on side
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As a parent, I work really hard not to have a favourite child. The long-running cosseting of Andrew is pretty strong evidence that QE2 very much did have a favourite child.
Reposted by Prof Carol Davenport
How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem)
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem)
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Wakefield is not North East England.
A new event for #WomenEd NE England!
A collab with the relaxed pedagogical grass roots movement BrewEd to offer twice the power and passion
Get this in your diary for all day Saturday March 7th 2026
womened.com/events/women...
A collab with the relaxed pedagogical grass roots movement BrewEd to offer twice the power and passion
Get this in your diary for all day Saturday March 7th 2026
womened.com/events/women...
#WomenEd North East England: BREWeD x WOMENeD
Spring 2026 will feature a huge WomenEd x BrewEd event in Wakefield on Saturday 7 March in the WX.
WomenEd are collaborating with the relaxed pedagogical
womened.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Wakefield is not North East England.
Reposted by Prof Carol Davenport
I should probably repost this, since it’s about… er… me.
Yay me!
Yay me!
📣Researchers from our @nustem.bsky.social
outreach group are celebrating after winning a prestigious @instituteofphysics.bsky.social
award recognising their work with children and young people across the North East and beyond. 🥇
#STEM #outreach #NorthumbriaUniversity
💡Discover more:
outreach group are celebrating after winning a prestigious @instituteofphysics.bsky.social
award recognising their work with children and young people across the North East and beyond. 🥇
#STEM #outreach #NorthumbriaUniversity
💡Discover more:
Northumbria University STEM outreach project wins Institute of Physics award
Researchers from an outreach group at Northumbria University are celebrating after winning a prestigious 2025 Institute of Physics (IOP) award recognising their work with children and young people acr...
www.northumbria.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I should probably repost this, since it’s about… er… me.
Yay me!
Yay me!
This is very satisfying.
Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is very satisfying.
Interesting approach that I have not come across before.
Name your equations.
Trust me, it's a game changer.
#iteachphysics
itsalearningcurve.education/on-the-benef...
Trust me, it's a game changer.
#iteachphysics
itsalearningcurve.education/on-the-benef...
On the Benefits of Naming Equations
I asked my students how they’d found the APC exam a few years ago and one student said: “It was fine. Question 1 was Billy squared and Question 3 was an easy Charlie”. What? Well,…
itsalearningcurve.education
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Interesting approach that I have not come across before.
Reposted by Prof Carol Davenport
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Doing better than usual - it's only taken me 7 weeks to realise that Only Connect is back for a new series.
September 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Doing better than usual - it's only taken me 7 weeks to realise that Only Connect is back for a new series.
@alomshaha.bsky.social I was at an open air museum in Denmark today and they had a watch exhibition, and I saw it and thought of you!
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@alomshaha.bsky.social I was at an open air museum in Denmark today and they had a watch exhibition, and I saw it and thought of you!
Reposted by Prof Carol Davenport
Just because they’re funny doesn’t mean they’re right. The Dr Fox Effect shows we mistake charisma for clarity. The more you know, the harder it is to see what novices don’t. That’s the Curse of Knowledge. Know your subject and how it’s learned.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
The merits and dangers of subject knowledge
What Dr Fox (or Ken Robinson) teaches us about the importance of teachers' subject knowledge
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Just because they’re funny doesn’t mean they’re right. The Dr Fox Effect shows we mistake charisma for clarity. The more you know, the harder it is to see what novices don’t. That’s the Curse of Knowledge. Know your subject and how it’s learned.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Reposted by Prof Carol Davenport
New post just out:
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Britain isn't broken
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand
open.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
New post just out:
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Absolutely this ⬇️
No, employers need to do their own training. It’s not educators’ job to make sure that school-leavers — or graduates — have the specific skills that each company needs. Employers need to invest in their workforce.
We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
June 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Absolutely this ⬇️
The damage that TwXter has done to British national discourse is obvious when politicians and their advisors talk about DEI and other strongly-US focused talking points. They can't even get the letters in the order we generally use them in the UK.
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.
An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The damage that TwXter has done to British national discourse is obvious when politicians and their advisors talk about DEI and other strongly-US focused talking points. They can't even get the letters in the order we generally use them in the UK.
Education as both a window and a mirror.
May 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Education as both a window and a mirror.
My first thought was that it was April 1st, but apparently not.
An actual tragedy is playing out in real time on the pages of the Telegraph.
If you are the praying kind then please pray for them.
If you are the praying kind then please pray for them.
May 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My first thought was that it was April 1st, but apparently not.
And much more memorable than another branded pen, notebook or waterbottle.
this is such a nice idea at a conference! Headshots are expensive and often not offered by universities (I've only worked in one dept that did this) so this is great
Need a headshot? Visit the headshot booth in the APS Exhibit Hall 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM today and Saturday to have a professional photo taken. Sponsored by Sage Publishing.
May 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
And much more memorable than another branded pen, notebook or waterbottle.
Interesting blog about this paper on AI.
Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.
Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.
NEW: calling all those interested in use of #AI in #healthcare.
Our review of use of AI in radiology diagnostics published in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Accompanying blog 'Curb your enthusiasm' www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/cu...
@emmajourno.bsky.social
Our review of use of AI in radiology diagnostics published in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Accompanying blog 'Curb your enthusiasm' www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/cu...
@emmajourno.bsky.social
Artificial intelligence for diagnostics in radiology practice: a rapid systematic scoping review
The aim of this review was to evaluate evidence on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support diagnostics in radiology, including implementati…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Interesting blog about this paper on AI.
Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.
Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.
But...surely children's picturebooks don't have to have narrative integrity?
Have recently read two children’s non-fiction picturebooks which feature characters - a brown kid and his / her parent / grandparent who don’t actually *do* anything in the book except appear at the start before the book spews “science” facts on the page. This seems really cynical to me. #kidlit
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
But...surely children's picturebooks don't have to have narrative integrity?
Really helpful thread about the increasing invisibility of those children and adults for whom autism is not a 'superpower'.
This is a really poor article by the BBC
It writes about #autism almost exclusively from the high functioning end of the spectrum and at times seems to almost trivialise the condition and the impact it can have
It writes about #autism almost exclusively from the high functioning end of the spectrum and at times seems to almost trivialise the condition and the impact it can have
Are there more autistic people now?
Why is the number of autism diagnoses changing? And what does it mean for autistic people?
www.bbc.co.uk
May 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Really helpful thread about the increasing invisibility of those children and adults for whom autism is not a 'superpower'.
It's always a pleasure to work with colleagues from Life Science Centre.
💡 Inspiring the next generation of scientists 💡
We are delighted to have signed a new partnership with long-time collaborators, the International Centre for Life, focused on boosting science education and engagement across the North East.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/4jC3zcp
#STEM #NUSTEM
We are delighted to have signed a new partnership with long-time collaborators, the International Centre for Life, focused on boosting science education and engagement across the North East.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/4jC3zcp
#STEM #NUSTEM
New partnership to inspire the next generation of scientists
Northumbria University and the International Centre for Life (Life) have agreed a new strategic partnership to boost science education and engagement across the North East.
bit.ly
May 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's always a pleasure to work with colleagues from Life Science Centre.
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This is fascinating. Genuine errors in transcription and translation of papers have led to a weird phenomenon.
#SciComm #AI
#SciComm #AI
"A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data" @theconversation.com
A very interesting #scicomm read!
theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...
A very interesting #scicomm read!
theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...
A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
theconversation.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@[email protected] This is an interesting thread which relates to your work on volunteering.
2 pieces youshould read side by side today - first fantastic piece from @jameskanag.bsky.social on importance of volunteering/associational life. 2nd a BBC report on the cancellation of 150 year old Shrewsbury Flower Show & Margaret's quote about what it means to her
www.thetimes.com/article/d86f...
www.thetimes.com/article/d86f...
April 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
@[email protected] This is an interesting thread which relates to your work on volunteering.