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Gareth Morgan Consultancy
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Provide DCF and computer science advice, support and training to primary schools across Wales. Creator of The Digital Learning Den platform.
www.headinthecloud.wales
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 4d
For what it's worth, I thought I'd share my edtech blog with you. I find that writing a blog often helps in forming, articulating and reflecting on the things that I'm currently thinking about, reading or have observed.
www.headinthecloud.wales
Head in the Cloud
The personal blog about the use of technology in education seen from the point of view of a director of an education digital technology consultancy.
www.headinthecloud.wales
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tom-richmond.com
Are ChatGPT and other AI tools going to lead to a ‘cognitive collapse’ in schools, colleges and elsewhere?

My new @smfthinktank.bsky.social report explores the research evidence on the risks posed by AI in our education system.

Read / download the report: bit.ly/4g7EKUR
September 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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wired.com
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company's stuffed animals.
www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company's stuffed animals.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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nervoushamburglar.bsky.social
Why would anyone buy an AI stuffed animal that records your child?
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
“….CBP would begin requesting additional information, including telephone numbers used by the visitor over the past five years, email addresses used over the past decade, and other details about family members.”
I’m guessing GDPR is pointless then? 🤷🏻‍♂️

news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to check tourists' social media 'putting people off travel'
The World Travel & Tourism Council claims the policy would cost America billions and seriously damage job creation.
news.sky.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
This looks interesting. Just joined the wait list 👍🏻
annenafo.bsky.social Anne Grete Øren 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇬🇪 @annenafo.bsky.social · 10d
EU 🇪🇺 is reportedly preparing to launch “W,” a new social media platform positioned as a direct rival to X, with mandatory human verification for every account in an effort to eliminate bots and coordinated manipulation.

Fantastic, can’t wait to use it. 💯👏

Join the waiting list here 👇
wedium.social
January 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
The move is part of France's strategy to stop using foreign software vendors, especially those from the United States, and regain control over critical digital infrastructure.”

I wonder the UK stands on digital sovereignty? 🙄
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 PM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
My thoughts about Bridget Phillipson's recent statement that "mobile phones have no place in our schools, but AI learning tools are different." Looking forward to writing about the AI tutoring tool that they are trialling in schools in the summer.
www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/01/mobi...
#education
Mobile Phones in Schools are Bad, But AI Learning Tools are "Different"
A blog post questioning Bridget Phillipson's statement about mobile phones having no place in schools and how AI learning tools are "different".
www.headinthecloud.wales
January 29, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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detig.bsky.social
A bargain 😳
The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
mahadk.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:51 AM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
For what it's worth, I thought I'd share my edtech blog with you. I find that writing a blog often helps in forming, articulating and reflecting on the things that I'm currently thinking about, reading or have observed.
www.headinthecloud.wales
Head in the Cloud
The personal blog about the use of technology in education seen from the point of view of a director of an education digital technology consultancy.
www.headinthecloud.wales
January 28, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Our education should nurture minds, not rot them on the vine.
January 28, 2026 at 10:14 AM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
👏🏻👏🏻
“In the words of Jurassic Park scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) on re-creating dinosaurs, they ‘were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should’.
Similar to the question I keep coming back to, “Just because we can, does that mean we should?”
drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11d
Never so much as went to the website. Never opened a tab - didn't know it had tabs. I have a brain and a conscience, so I don't need answer-shaped objects derived from stolen labour and data while destroying the planet and feeding a psychosis-radioactive waste machine.

More thoughts on this:
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Who made the monsters? A lesson from Del Toro's Frankenstein
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January 28, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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willoremus.com
Anthropic's project to "destructively scan all the books in the world" was actually viewed as the *more* ethical and legally sound approach to training its AI.

Previously the industry standard had been simply to pirate vast "shadow libraries" of digitized books for free online. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
On several occasions, Meta employees raised concerns in internal messages that downloading a collection of millions of books without permission would violate copyright law. In December 2023, an internal email said the practice had been approved after “escalation to MZ,” an apparent reference to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to filings in a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors against the company. Meta declined to comment for this story. In one newly released legal filing, Anthropic disclosed that co-founder Ben Mann personally downloaded a haul of fiction and nonfiction from a “shadow library” of books and other copyright-infringing content called LibGen over an 11-day stretch in June 2021. A screenshot of his web browser included in the filings showed him downloading files with file-sharing software. A year later, Mann hailed the July 2022 debut of a new website called the Pirate Library Mirror, which claimed to have a massive database of books and had stated that “we deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries.” Mann sent a link to the site to other Anthropic employees with the message, “just in time!!!”
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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willoremus.com
Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books to oversee its secret "Project Panama," new court docs show — quietly buying millions of used books in bulk, breaking their spines and scanning them to feed into its Claude chatbot. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the AI models behind products such as its popular chatbot Claude. Details of Project Panama, which have not been previously reported, emerged in more than 4,000 pages of documents in a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors against Anthropic, which has been valued by investors at $183 billion. The company paid $1.5 billion to settle the case in August but a district judge’s decision last week to unseal a slew of documents in the case more fully revealed Anthropic’s zealous pursuit of books. The new documents, along with earlier filings in other copyright cases against AI companies, show the lengths to which tech firms such as Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI went to obtain colossal troves of data with which to “train” their software. The Anthropic case was part of a wave of lawsuits brought against AI companies by authors, artists, photographers and news outlets. Filings in the cases show top tech firms in a frantic, sometimes clandestine race to acquire the collected works of humanity.
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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gartmor.bsky.social
The slippery slope? 🫤
#ai #generativeai #education

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
AI tutoring to be introduced across UK schools
One union leader stressed AI tools should ‘never replace face-to-face interaction’
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 8:12 AM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
Had a great morning with a group of primary school digital leads looking at critical AI literacy focusing on the social, intellectual and environmental harms.
#generativeai #ethics #criticalailiteracy #primaryschool #education
Screen grab of the opening slide of my presentation. Generative AI Ethics - Just because we can, does that mean we should?
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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gartmor.bsky.social
Says the man shi**ing himself because of the billions he’s plowed into a product hardly anyone wants or will pay for.
#microslop
January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
This has been on my mind for sometime. I really regret that in the past, I encouraged schools to adopt both these US cloud based platforms 😕 Nationally, Microsoft has its talons in virtually all schools through our schools national platform, Hwb.
January 18, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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jenejareth.bsky.social
Slop shops
January 18, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
January 18, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
Grok is so much worse than you think.
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
☀️ Summer School 📚

“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"

Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself

Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)

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www.ru.nl/en/education...
Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming | Radboud University
This course is designed to foster critical AI literacies in participants to empower them to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.
www.ru.nl
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
gmconsultancy.bsky.social
This made me laugh 😂
#aislop #microslop

www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/13/w...
Windows 11 users coin “Microslop” as AI backlash grows, and even a browser extension that renames Microsoft to Microslop
There’s a browser extension for Chrome called “Microsoft to Microslop” that replaces every mention of “Microsoft” with “Microslop."
www.windowslatest.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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parismarx.com
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.

It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
disconnect.blog
January 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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librarymode.bsky.social
And if you are thinking big business, also think smaller. Every one of our school districts needs to get off the platform. Contact the people that care for your kids eight hours a day and let them know it’s unacceptable.
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
typical ai use case
4 panel comic Panel 1: Blue Guy is at a restaurant. Pink Guy is the waiter serving him. Blue Guy is holding his phone up to his face and shouting obnoxiously, “Gemini, what food does this place have?” Waiter: “Sir, we have a menu” Panel 2: Blue Guy continues into phone: “Gemini, what burgers do they do?” Waiter: “You can check the menu” Panel 3: Blue Guy: “Gemini, pizza options?” Waiter, looking at the menu on the table in front of the Blue Guy: “It’s literally right there” Panel 4: Blue Guy: “Gemini, spaghetti, yes or no?” Waiter: Rotate your eyeballs 45 degrees downward
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM