Caroline Keep
@ka81.bsky.social
AKA @Ka81 Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting a unique #Neurodivergent edu/tech narrative. UK ( Alice in Wonderland village if you know...you know )
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Since you all love #Oddsock. He has a statement.
"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
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Monday the 24th November is our next open evening at #HitchinHackpace. Why not come along and see what the hackspace is all about? From 19:30. Free tea or coffee and biccies 🫖☕🍪🙂
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Monday the 24th November is our next open evening at #HitchinHackpace. Why not come along and see what the hackspace is all about? From 19:30. Free tea or coffee and biccies 🫖☕🍪🙂
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
Anyone else autistic have that thing where people in real life really think they REALLY know you? ⬇️ Thread 🧵 I have really 3 settings
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Anyone else autistic have that thing where people in real life really think they REALLY know you? ⬇️ Thread 🧵 I have really 3 settings
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
I'm just going to point out again what I keep pointing out with AI.
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence-related terms in artificial intelligence language models
Given the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in many decision-making processes, we investigate the presence of AI bias towards terms related to a range of neurodivergent conditions, including autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, and ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I'm just going to point out again what I keep pointing out with AI.
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
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The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
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I like to point out that Hannibal (the show) came out *right* before the DSM-5 with the show runner saying that Will has the “opposite of Aspergers” … which really didn’t fit the Autism related DXes in the DSM-4 but *does* in the DSM-5
So more House MD, Meets Will Graham with a dash of Mabel from Gravity Falls . If you want a full Caroline flavour of autistic ADHD.
Equally likely to be brillant, go slightly mad, or shout GRAPPLING HOOK, but I can look cute doing it.
🤣🤣
Equally likely to be brillant, go slightly mad, or shout GRAPPLING HOOK, but I can look cute doing it.
🤣🤣
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I like to point out that Hannibal (the show) came out *right* before the DSM-5 with the show runner saying that Will has the “opposite of Aspergers” … which really didn’t fit the Autism related DXes in the DSM-4 but *does* in the DSM-5
So more House MD, Meets Will Graham with a dash of Mabel from Gravity Falls . If you want a full Caroline flavour of autistic ADHD.
Equally likely to be brillant, go slightly mad, or shout GRAPPLING HOOK, but I can look cute doing it.
🤣🤣
Equally likely to be brillant, go slightly mad, or shout GRAPPLING HOOK, but I can look cute doing it.
🤣🤣
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
So more House MD, Meets Will Graham with a dash of Mabel from Gravity Falls . If you want a full Caroline flavour of autistic ADHD.
Equally likely to be brillant, go slightly mad, or shout GRAPPLING HOOK, but I can look cute doing it.
🤣🤣
Equally likely to be brillant, go slightly mad, or shout GRAPPLING HOOK, but I can look cute doing it.
🤣🤣
I am going to address few more here as they deserve it... obviously audhd.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I am going to address few more here as they deserve it... obviously audhd.
Oh who picked Gaius... hats off @intra86.bsky.social good call ... also on my list.
I feel like the obvious candidates never quite hit the way I think people expect. I absolutely love Abed, Data, and Tina Belcher. But if we’re talking about identifying with on a deep personal level, I think I have to go with Gaius Baltar.
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Oh who picked Gaius... hats off @intra86.bsky.social good call ... also on my list.
#AskingAutistics Who is the first Autistic Character you really identified with ?
Well I am Audhd...🤣
Well I am Audhd...🤣
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#AskingAutistics Who is the first Autistic Character you really identified with ?
Well I am Audhd...🤣
Well I am Audhd...🤣
Dear USA.
UK needs teachers, nurses in fact this whole list really...⬇️ I'm pretty sure our system still recognises professional degrees.
UK needs teachers, nurses in fact this whole list really...⬇️ I'm pretty sure our system still recognises professional degrees.
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Dear USA.
UK needs teachers, nurses in fact this whole list really...⬇️ I'm pretty sure our system still recognises professional degrees.
UK needs teachers, nurses in fact this whole list really...⬇️ I'm pretty sure our system still recognises professional degrees.
Reposted by Caroline Keep
Allowing brands to affect curriculum and indoctrinate students through the very tools students use to learn is disgusting. Google does all it can to make itself not only avoidable but also inevitable. It doesn't have to be this way.
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Allowing brands to affect curriculum and indoctrinate students through the very tools students use to learn is disgusting. Google does all it can to make itself not only avoidable but also inevitable. It doesn't have to be this way.
Noooooo....
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Noooooo....
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Libraries are SO important 🥹
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Libraries are SO important 🥹
I get that some people wanted to put up flags (not really my thing)…
But thanks to british weather they now look less ‘patriotic display’ & more like wet manky dishcloths dangling from increasingly questionable locations and I'm starting to wonder what they are used for tbh... 😳
But thanks to british weather they now look less ‘patriotic display’ & more like wet manky dishcloths dangling from increasingly questionable locations and I'm starting to wonder what they are used for tbh... 😳
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I get that some people wanted to put up flags (not really my thing)…
But thanks to british weather they now look less ‘patriotic display’ & more like wet manky dishcloths dangling from increasingly questionable locations and I'm starting to wonder what they are used for tbh... 😳
But thanks to british weather they now look less ‘patriotic display’ & more like wet manky dishcloths dangling from increasingly questionable locations and I'm starting to wonder what they are used for tbh... 😳
Reposted by Caroline Keep
#Allyship matters. Not just for students, but for school staff. Not just in theory, but in practice. Frances Akinde – @inclusionht.bsky.social – considers how we can model allyship in #schools & offers some practical ideas buff.ly/2htqA4U #teaching #pastoralcare #teachers
Allyship in the classroom and the school - SecEd
Advice for how teachers can model allyship in schools, including a number of practical ideas
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
#Allyship matters. Not just for students, but for school staff. Not just in theory, but in practice. Frances Akinde – @inclusionht.bsky.social – considers how we can model allyship in #schools & offers some practical ideas buff.ly/2htqA4U #teaching #pastoralcare #teachers
Ok you know they say "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
If you start as the villain does it work the other way round??
Asking For Americans ...
#Trump #ZohranMamdani WTF?
If you start as the villain does it work the other way round??
Asking For Americans ...
#Trump #ZohranMamdani WTF?
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Ok you know they say "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
If you start as the villain does it work the other way round??
Asking For Americans ...
#Trump #ZohranMamdani WTF?
If you start as the villain does it work the other way round??
Asking For Americans ...
#Trump #ZohranMamdani WTF?
Reposted by Caroline Keep
[Gif of Troy & Annie consoling Abed during time change]
Autistic me:
“but you can’t roll a 20 on starting stats the highest roll is an 18”
ADHD me:
“Shh shhh it’s gonna be ok”
Autistic me:
“But … do they know they are wrong?”
Me:
“Focus Focus”
Autistic me:
“but you can’t roll a 20 on starting stats the highest roll is an 18”
ADHD me:
“Shh shhh it’s gonna be ok”
Autistic me:
“But … do they know they are wrong?”
Me:
“Focus Focus”
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
[Gif of Troy & Annie consoling Abed during time change]
Autistic me:
“but you can’t roll a 20 on starting stats the highest roll is an 18”
ADHD me:
“Shh shhh it’s gonna be ok”
Autistic me:
“But … do they know they are wrong?”
Me:
“Focus Focus”
Autistic me:
“but you can’t roll a 20 on starting stats the highest roll is an 18”
ADHD me:
“Shh shhh it’s gonna be ok”
Autistic me:
“But … do they know they are wrong?”
Me:
“Focus Focus”
What??
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What??
Hey USA you know like your changing some degrees to apprently become classed as non professional degrees. ⬇️
You know who we in the UK class as having a professional degrees...ones we really want over here ♥️👋⬇️
getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/non-uk-teach...
You know who we in the UK class as having a professional degrees...ones we really want over here ♥️👋⬇️
getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/non-uk-teach...
Visas for non-UK teachers
Learn more about types of visas non-UK citizens will need to work in England, and how to apply.
getintoteaching.education.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hey USA you know like your changing some degrees to apprently become classed as non professional degrees. ⬇️
You know who we in the UK class as having a professional degrees...ones we really want over here ♥️👋⬇️
getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/non-uk-teach...
You know who we in the UK class as having a professional degrees...ones we really want over here ♥️👋⬇️
getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/non-uk-teach...
Full day teaching my hips are dire #EDS. Orthotics sucks, going to have to use my stick more & adopt a House MD vibe.
Which given I said the misathropic phrase to a ECT today "Well I dislike people, but kids aren't full people yet they are kids. I like kids they are honest"
Might be time tbh.
Which given I said the misathropic phrase to a ECT today "Well I dislike people, but kids aren't full people yet they are kids. I like kids they are honest"
Might be time tbh.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Full day teaching my hips are dire #EDS. Orthotics sucks, going to have to use my stick more & adopt a House MD vibe.
Which given I said the misathropic phrase to a ECT today "Well I dislike people, but kids aren't full people yet they are kids. I like kids they are honest"
Might be time tbh.
Which given I said the misathropic phrase to a ECT today "Well I dislike people, but kids aren't full people yet they are kids. I like kids they are honest"
Might be time tbh.
About to go teach and honestly this doesn't surprise me.
The one thing we aren't doing we really need to do adequately fund schools. SLT and SENCos are exhausted, morale at all time low.
The one thing we aren't doing we really need to do adequately fund schools. SLT and SENCos are exhausted, morale at all time low.
This has been my worry all along with the breakfast club nonsense. You can talk about funding all you like, the long and the short of it is that school leaders end up with another job on the list, another extension to their working day, and the job becomes ever harder...
And this is from DfE advice!
And this is from DfE advice!
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
About to go teach and honestly this doesn't surprise me.
The one thing we aren't doing we really need to do adequately fund schools. SLT and SENCos are exhausted, morale at all time low.
The one thing we aren't doing we really need to do adequately fund schools. SLT and SENCos are exhausted, morale at all time low.
Btw nothing in my life makes me more angry than this, it's approx 2025 about now, (goes up and down never less than 1000). Cases of autistics being locked up for 45 years. Average incarceration 4.6 years.
225 under 18s about now.
We are locking up 225 kids ⬇️
www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...
225 under 18s about now.
We are locking up 225 kids ⬇️
www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Btw nothing in my life makes me more angry than this, it's approx 2025 about now, (goes up and down never less than 1000). Cases of autistics being locked up for 45 years. Average incarceration 4.6 years.
225 under 18s about now.
We are locking up 225 kids ⬇️
www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...
225 under 18s about now.
We are locking up 225 kids ⬇️
www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...
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A short thread with my thoughts on breakfast clubs. 🧵
It has always been difficult to make wraparound care financially sustainable because of the ratios needed versus the likely/potential take up. It's not just about having the space to do it or about when the school is technically 'open'. 1/4
It has always been difficult to make wraparound care financially sustainable because of the ratios needed versus the likely/potential take up. It's not just about having the space to do it or about when the school is technically 'open'. 1/4
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A short thread with my thoughts on breakfast clubs. 🧵
It has always been difficult to make wraparound care financially sustainable because of the ratios needed versus the likely/potential take up. It's not just about having the space to do it or about when the school is technically 'open'. 1/4
It has always been difficult to make wraparound care financially sustainable because of the ratios needed versus the likely/potential take up. It's not just about having the space to do it or about when the school is technically 'open'. 1/4