Howie
@drhowards.bsky.social
Researcher / SL in education and technology, while awaiting the rapture. Otherwise walking around thinking about music, space and books. YNWA. 🇵🇸
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard-Scott
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard-Scott
New research paper on using AI to ease teacher workload. Verdict: based on this sample it’s largely ineffectual as yet, and resources created often need modifying www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/13...
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New research paper on using AI to ease teacher workload. Verdict: based on this sample it’s largely ineffectual as yet, and resources created often need modifying www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/13...
Blue sky shite tho innit, really
September 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Blue sky shite tho innit, really
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Some may have noticed a rising number of people from Gaza in my comments. I’ve been privately trying to give as much as I can to people there in desperate need, but I’ve honestly hit my maximum daily dollar donation limit. And the pleas for money for food keep coming in. Please help if you can.
July 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some may have noticed a rising number of people from Gaza in my comments. I’ve been privately trying to give as much as I can to people there in desperate need, but I’ve honestly hit my maximum daily dollar donation limit. And the pleas for money for food keep coming in. Please help if you can.
New research paper for FE and especially GCSE resit interested colleagues. The paper was three years coming together and is built on a student’s assignment (co-author), involved 70+ English FE teacher participants and is open access here. Very proud! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New research paper for FE and especially GCSE resit interested colleagues. The paper was three years coming together and is built on a student’s assignment (co-author), involved 70+ English FE teacher participants and is open access here. Very proud! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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One hand washes the other
July 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
One hand washes the other
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I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.
Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
June 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.
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#C4News find the girl escaping the fire in the burning classroom after an Israeli strike
"I walked through the fire all by myself"
"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"
"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"
"I want to be with them"
"I walked through the fire all by myself"
"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"
"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"
"I want to be with them"
May 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#C4News find the girl escaping the fire in the burning classroom after an Israeli strike
"I walked through the fire all by myself"
"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"
"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"
"I want to be with them"
"I walked through the fire all by myself"
"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"
"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"
"I want to be with them"
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and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
May 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
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New publication: Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters.
rdcu.be/ekuFN
#EdTech
#AcademicSky
#eLearningDesign
rdcu.be/ekuFN
#EdTech
#AcademicSky
#eLearningDesign
Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters
rdcu.be
May 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
New publication: Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters.
rdcu.be/ekuFN
#EdTech
#AcademicSky
#eLearningDesign
rdcu.be/ekuFN
#EdTech
#AcademicSky
#eLearningDesign
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let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice
April 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice
@tonyevans92a.bsky.social reading your book on 83-84 in the sunshine. The chapter Iron Will is magnificent writing and perfectly captures the intensity of football in what was a mad season. First year I think I saw the Reds at Anfield as a kid. Great warm up for the derby and hopefully more victory.
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
@tonyevans92a.bsky.social reading your book on 83-84 in the sunshine. The chapter Iron Will is magnificent writing and perfectly captures the intensity of football in what was a mad season. First year I think I saw the Reds at Anfield as a kid. Great warm up for the derby and hopefully more victory.
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Cool Balkan road trip up in the Accursed Mountains and down the Montenegro coast
March 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Cool Balkan road trip up in the Accursed Mountains and down the Montenegro coast
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eBay and AI
I see eBay have amended their privacy settings to include a section on AI. If you're fortunate enough to live in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, however, you can opt out of having your data used for AI training. If you don't opt out you will stay opted in!
I see eBay have amended their privacy settings to include a section on AI. If you're fortunate enough to live in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, however, you can opt out of having your data used for AI training. If you don't opt out you will stay opted in!
March 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
eBay and AI
I see eBay have amended their privacy settings to include a section on AI. If you're fortunate enough to live in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, however, you can opt out of having your data used for AI training. If you don't opt out you will stay opted in!
I see eBay have amended their privacy settings to include a section on AI. If you're fortunate enough to live in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, however, you can opt out of having your data used for AI training. If you don't opt out you will stay opted in!
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DeepSeek database was just exposed.
DeepSeek allegedly trained on ChatGPT's knowledge base (which probably includes user inputs).
This is precisely why you don't put sensitive or proprietary info into chatbots.
DeepSeek allegedly trained on ChatGPT's knowledge base (which probably includes user inputs).
This is precisely why you don't put sensitive or proprietary info into chatbots.
January 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
DeepSeek database was just exposed.
DeepSeek allegedly trained on ChatGPT's knowledge base (which probably includes user inputs).
This is precisely why you don't put sensitive or proprietary info into chatbots.
DeepSeek allegedly trained on ChatGPT's knowledge base (which probably includes user inputs).
This is precisely why you don't put sensitive or proprietary info into chatbots.
HE chancellors with records of systemic destruction, who value concrete over people, who achieve nothing but notoriety for dissolving collegiate relations, who go from uni to uni scorching earth and firing recklessly, then leave for $$, who talk in empty platitudes as if they’re rebels need to STFU.
February 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
HE chancellors with records of systemic destruction, who value concrete over people, who achieve nothing but notoriety for dissolving collegiate relations, who go from uni to uni scorching earth and firing recklessly, then leave for $$, who talk in empty platitudes as if they’re rebels need to STFU.
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Up above Corwen today into the white bright and early. Sheep and stone circles and cloud wandering.
January 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Up above Corwen today into the white bright and early. Sheep and stone circles and cloud wandering.
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The CSET 2025 critical technologies and education discourse event is coming in February. Contribute to the conversation by registering with the West Midlands webinar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cset-2025-... repeated on Thursday for those who can’t make the first option. Thanks @neilselwyn.bsky.social
CSET 2025 – Critical studies of education and technology
The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Education will host a CSET webinar meeting in February 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The CSET 2025 critical technologies and education discourse event is coming in February. Contribute to the conversation by registering with the West Midlands webinar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cset-2025-... repeated on Thursday for those who can’t make the first option. Thanks @neilselwyn.bsky.social
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It is time people stopped sharing the outrageous photo of Liz Truss and the "I crashed the economy" poster. Please do not share this as it is highly upsetting to the former tory prime minister, who holds the record for the shortest term ever!
January 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It is time people stopped sharing the outrageous photo of Liz Truss and the "I crashed the economy" poster. Please do not share this as it is highly upsetting to the former tory prime minister, who holds the record for the shortest term ever!
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we have not collectively invested anything to creating training data. most of us haven’t even consented (or made aware or compensated) for our digital traces to be used as training data. your “we”, can only refer to big tech and large firms whose business model is to aggregate and sell data
Weirdly as we’ve (collectively) invested a great deal of emotion in creating the corpus of its training data, treating it “as if it did” seems to improve the quality of its output
Feedback loops are also greatly increasing the apparent understanding it seems to portray compared to early iterations
Feedback loops are also greatly increasing the apparent understanding it seems to portray compared to early iterations
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
we have not collectively invested anything to creating training data. most of us haven’t even consented (or made aware or compensated) for our digital traces to be used as training data. your “we”, can only refer to big tech and large firms whose business model is to aggregate and sell data
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This is the type of book you enjoy and resent equally, as you realise how little you know about anything. The chiralitic distance (and non distance) between the subject and object is bewildering and distorting of what I ever knew of Cormac McCarthy. Nearly finished the intro. In for a ride.
December 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM
This is the type of book you enjoy and resent equally, as you realise how little you know about anything. The chiralitic distance (and non distance) between the subject and object is bewildering and distorting of what I ever knew of Cormac McCarthy. Nearly finished the intro. In for a ride.
Reds top on Boxing Day
December 27, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Reds top on Boxing Day