Sue Cowley

We were talking today about how taking children outside means that the walls disappear and they can breathe more freely. Much less sensory overload. It was so interesting to consider the impact of environments on learning and development. #EduSky ##EarlyYears

I feel a bit the same about assessment. If a child puts effort into something, the least we can do is to respond in person when we possibly can. I totally get the workload arguments but we need to ask who is creating the workload and for what purpose rather than how can we do it more efficiently.

Or alternatively if you want to have a go at writing a book just get on with it. 😉

'It made my admin easier' is not a selling point if excessive workload is actually the issue. Having control of your own life is not a negative thing. No way I'm handing that over to a machine.

Maybe have some consistent values rather than obsessing about polling? Just a thought. 🤷‍♀️

If you can't be bothered to do something yourself then maybe it's something not worth doing. Let's value art and craft, please. 🙏🏻

In my humble opinion quite a lot of the hype around AI is just because it gives people permission to be the worst version of themselves.

Stop it! (please) 🙏🏻

That's a very impressive dinosaur. 👏🏻

That is beautiful.

This is just lovely. There are still more good people than bad in this world. ♥️

@moremorrow.bsky.social I had a good chat with Jo. ☺️

Back from a busy two days in Cornwall with lots of wonderful early years colleagues who are all committed to making things the best they can be for their children. Many thanks to @moremorrow.bsky.social for the recommendation.

This is important and I talk about it a lot in CPD. Why do we so often expect more of children than the adults who are meant to be role models for them?

I always find this myth funny because what about poor Niamh who doesn't ever get to write her name if phonics?

This guy is so symbolic of all that is wrong with Labour.

Thanks Aaron!

Long past time we had some radical change in education. Ofsted are hugely problematic and we need to be able to put children back at the centre rather than the constant pressure on children and young people. Pretty much every conversation I have with educators IRL is about this.

This is their one childhood. It should be full of play, exploration, wonder and community. And for some children, school is the only place they will (should*) be guaranteed to encounter those things.

In fact I'm often left thinking 'damn I should have included that when I wrote it'. 😂

I think it kind of feels like that but maybe subconsciously we're different after each one? I'm lucky in that I also get to present the ideas verbally and get teacher reactions which often helps me develop my thinking.

One of the weirdest things about my job is being referred to as an 'expert' as I'm not an academic. But I guess writing 30+ books on education means you do a lot of thinking about the topic. And that is yet another reason why we shouldn't be getting AI to 'write' stuff for us. Writing *is* thinking!

We are not just 'brains on legs', the brain and the body are intimately connected via the nervous system. So much of what we perceive as 'behaviour issues' is about problems developmentally in connecting the two, or environments that disconnect one from the other.

Up early for another day running CPD on play and physical development for early years colleagues in Cornwall. Something I was talking about yesterday which seems obvious but gets forgotten in discussions about cognitive science is that the brain is *part of the body*. Movement matters for learning!

'I used AI to ...'

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Long past time we had some radical change in education. Ofsted are hugely problematic and we need to be able to put children back at the centre rather than the constant pressure on children and young people. Pretty much every conversation I have with educators IRL is about this.

Good. #EduSky

It's not even just in more remote places. We're 10 minutes from Bristol and a lot of our village is on oil for heating and hot water.

Hope you feel better soon!

Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?

This is an awful lot of words for "I am a transphobe'.