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Mike Birtill

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Welsh, Northern, Happiest on a bicycle. Writing about AI & Futher Education. Interested in Pedagogy, Digital Education, Learning Spaces, Engineering & STEM. SEDA Fellow, ISSOTL 2025 Emerging Scholar.

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Theyve gone full nazi.

30.01.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So what’s your expertise in AI / pedagogy / teaching and learning? I have some expertise (Masters Degree in Digital Pedagogy where I focused on Ai and a few international awards) Maybe ask the experts before announcing this rather than repeating the Ed tech hype?

28.01.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think that was my sarcastic point. We’ve all arrived here from somewhere . I remember a walk of burial mounds of Cymru Nairn Rhys Mwyn a few years back , saying this and that the seas were the superhighways of people movement to these isles.

03.12.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s a racist fuck, on a racist tv channel. I’d like to go back to the day when this was abhorrent

03.12.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isnt that the beaker people?

03.12.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to announce that I have been awarded an MSc in Digital Pedagogy by @leedsbeckett.bsky.social. I also won the Deans Prize for outstanding contribution to Digital Learning

27.11.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI tools Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time ...

In my research for my MSc, educators in FE talked about the extra time needed to check genAI outputs for accuracy. In addition there is evidence that genAI use does not reduce educator workload. This paper by Selwyn et al., is really informative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

27.11.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was in your next of the woods yesterday, changing planes. It was 5am in the morning and very humid. The security at the airport was a bit weird mind.

20.11.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck me. I’ve been away from the Uk for four weeks and the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government has gone full nazi with the idea of removing asylum seeker’s jewellery. Can’t support or vote for them again. Vote @greenparty.org.uk in England.

17.11.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a note on this. Cleveland was not a historic county. It was a 1974 invention. The historic county is Yorkshire, north riding, now North Yorkshire

14.11.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cant we have them for PM & Chancelor? Radcliff & Maconnie can take turns at the foreign office.

10.11.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Affinity is good, but theyve just launched their new product which is free but now containts AI add ons….

10.11.2025 02:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The tech might be quick but its trueky a scandle that we got plaid , voted to leave the eu, and politicians wwnt for rhe mosy extreme version they could manage

21.10.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Correct number of bikes to own is n+1

10.10.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a tote bag with printed text "Distrusting educational technology" and stickers reading "Get AI out of education" and "Ed-tech is full of bullshit"

Photo of a tote bag with printed text "Distrusting educational technology" and stickers reading "Get AI out of education" and "Ed-tech is full of bullshit"

Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social

"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.

02.10.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I want T shirts of this

02.10.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So the York flagshaggers call themselves β€œFlaggers and Litter Pickers” and the Scarborough branch is β€œSqueaky Clean Scarborough” and they probably tell themselves it’s subtle and not the massive dog whistle it is

23.09.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blondie - Rapture (Official Music Video)
Blondie - Rapture (Official Music Video) YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

Are we all still here? youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

23.09.2025 18:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that all they’ve got

02.09.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There goes all the rest of the Labour supports to Zak and the greens then. Ffs . Starmer needs to stop being a shit

02.09.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shhh! It’s a way of getting high speed rail to the north , sleight of hand , def not hs2 , completely different etc etc

02.09.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ffs she’s wrong

31.08.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s very depressing, and quite interesting as the growth in renewable jobs are in Hull and Lincolnshire that have , you’ve guessed it, reform mayors. So are they going close all that and put their voters out of work? It’s f-ing insane policy or lack thereof

31.08.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Christ, they are really scraping the bottom of the policy barrel. Total madness but a sound bite to try an out reform reform.

31.08.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was going to say the same tho g. I mean you’d practice until you could get it bang on

18.08.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly, you went to the wrong university

18.08.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sori. Had autocorrect set to Cymraeg . But you get the idea

09.08.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If it wws rupret lowe it would about migrants trying to get to aberdar libary by paddlibg up the taf & cynon which actually turned out to be ex Royal Marines from Cardiff doings sponsored paddle

09.08.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The article is incorrect about the exam requirements for being an electrician. The L2 diploma does not qualify you, in fact you have to sign a disclaimer as part of that qual. You need L2 & L3 diploma + nvq + am2. This can been done either as an apprenticeship or via an experienced workers route

05.08.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pmsl

05.08.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0