Nick Dennis
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Education beyond the algorithm. My workshop session for school leaders on the 21st January 2026.
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Education beyond the algorithm. My workshop session for school leaders on the 21st January 2026.
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
What might Karl Marx, writing over a century ago, have to say about how we use and think about LLMs today?
With term starting shortly, I'm finishing prep for upcoming discussions with my A-level Politics class. When teaching ideologies, the question always is: how relevant are key thinkers today?
With term starting shortly, I'm finishing prep for upcoming discussions with my A-level Politics class. When teaching ideologies, the question always is: how relevant are key thinkers today?
August 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What might Karl Marx, writing over a century ago, have to say about how we use and think about LLMs today?
With term starting shortly, I'm finishing prep for upcoming discussions with my A-level Politics class. When teaching ideologies, the question always is: how relevant are key thinkers today?
With term starting shortly, I'm finishing prep for upcoming discussions with my A-level Politics class. When teaching ideologies, the question always is: how relevant are key thinkers today?
If you use AI in your school and have not read this book, you should. The critical view on how AI has been developed and sold will create questions about how it aligns with your school vision, notions or fairness and safeguarding practices.
August 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
If you use AI in your school and have not read this book, you should. The critical view on how AI has been developed and sold will create questions about how it aligns with your school vision, notions or fairness and safeguarding practices.
New: The Death of the Student Essay (As We Know It)? nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-death-...
July 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New: The Death of the Student Essay (As We Know It)? nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-death-...
I know history teachers are bound by all kinds of rules. I do wonder how we will collectively respond when this history is taught in the future.
July 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I know history teachers are bound by all kinds of rules. I do wonder how we will collectively respond when this history is taught in the future.
Shared copies of this piece with my Politics class today to help them understand the context of events over the weekend. One thing I learned from the article was that Obama commissioned the bomb that could penetrate the underground enrichment facility in Iran.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
June 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Shared copies of this piece with my Politics class today to help them understand the context of events over the weekend. One thing I learned from the article was that Obama commissioned the bomb that could penetrate the underground enrichment facility in Iran.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The reaction to the 'Using AI in Education Settings' from the UK Department for Education guidance has been interesting. A few thoughts in the link below. A local, open source and offline LLM box, anyone? open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
June 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The reaction to the 'Using AI in Education Settings' from the UK Department for Education guidance has been interesting. A few thoughts in the link below. A local, open source and offline LLM box, anyone? open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Does seeing come before words?
Next week, the ECA course for students from Y9 and above turns to John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing'.
Resources can be found at end of the link: nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
Next week, the ECA course for students from Y9 and above turns to John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing'.
Resources can be found at end of the link: nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
May 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Does seeing come before words?
Next week, the ECA course for students from Y9 and above turns to John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing'.
Resources can be found at end of the link: nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
Next week, the ECA course for students from Y9 and above turns to John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing'.
Resources can be found at end of the link: nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
Information, Knowledge and Wisdom open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
April 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Information, Knowledge and Wisdom open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
AI and the 'cheapening' of education? open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
April 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
AI and the 'cheapening' of education? open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
This term's final session of 'Human Conversations Across Cultures and Times' for Y9-Y13 focuses on the work of Caroline Criado Perez.
The resources for the session created with Google's Notebook LM (including an audio overview) can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
The resources for the session created with Google's Notebook LM (including an audio overview) can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
March 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This term's final session of 'Human Conversations Across Cultures and Times' for Y9-Y13 focuses on the work of Caroline Criado Perez.
The resources for the session created with Google's Notebook LM (including an audio overview) can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
The resources for the session created with Google's Notebook LM (including an audio overview) can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Why I don't think OpenAI's metafictional story about grief is beautiful and moving (but it is impressive).
New Substack post in response to Jeanette Winterson's piece earlier this week in The Guardian.
open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
New Substack post in response to Jeanette Winterson's piece earlier this week in The Guardian.
open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
March 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why I don't think OpenAI's metafictional story about grief is beautiful and moving (but it is impressive).
New Substack post in response to Jeanette Winterson's piece earlier this week in The Guardian.
open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
New Substack post in response to Jeanette Winterson's piece earlier this week in The Guardian.
open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
What if there were no more birdsong?
This is the question we will grapple with in next week as we discuss Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and the impact it had on how we think about the environment and justice. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
This is the question we will grapple with in next week as we discuss Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and the impact it had on how we think about the environment and justice. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
March 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
What if there were no more birdsong?
This is the question we will grapple with in next week as we discuss Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and the impact it had on how we think about the environment and justice. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
This is the question we will grapple with in next week as we discuss Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and the impact it had on how we think about the environment and justice. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Should parents/schools pay students for test results?
One of the questions we will tackle next week as the students discuss Michael Sandel's 'What Money Can't Buy'. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
One of the questions we will tackle next week as the students discuss Michael Sandel's 'What Money Can't Buy'. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
March 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Should parents/schools pay students for test results?
One of the questions we will tackle next week as the students discuss Michael Sandel's 'What Money Can't Buy'. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
One of the questions we will tackle next week as the students discuss Michael Sandel's 'What Money Can't Buy'. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
An interesting piece of research that should serve as a starter discussion for colleagues in primary/prep schools and all-through schools. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
March 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
An interesting piece of research that should serve as a starter discussion for colleagues in primary/prep schools and all-through schools. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
The upcoming session for Y9-Y13 students introduces the work of John Rawls through an examination of his A Theory of Justice. Resources now available here: nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/power-and-...
February 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The upcoming session for Y9-Y13 students introduces the work of John Rawls through an examination of his A Theory of Justice. Resources now available here: nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/power-and-...
New post: Educational Change in an Age of Polycrisis open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
February 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
New post: Educational Change in an Age of Polycrisis open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Struggling with digital transformation? This book will help.
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Struggling with digital transformation? This book will help.
On silos and digital strategy open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
January 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
On silos and digital strategy open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
New Substack post: From 'Doing Digital' to 'Being Digital': Reimagining School Leadership. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
January 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
New Substack post: From 'Doing Digital' to 'Being Digital': Reimagining School Leadership. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Resources and questions for the for the first session of 'Human Conversations Across Cultures and Time' is now available on my Substack. It is based on Gorovitz and MacIntyre's 'Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility'.
nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-nature...
nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-nature...
January 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Resources and questions for the for the first session of 'Human Conversations Across Cultures and Time' is now available on my Substack. It is based on Gorovitz and MacIntyre's 'Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility'.
nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-nature...
nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-nature...
The writing of reports based directly on feedback in assessments in Teams is coming closer. Will save huge amounts of time for teachers. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati...
January 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The writing of reports based directly on feedback in assessments in Teams is coming closer. Will save huge amounts of time for teachers. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati...
