@whatonomy.bsky.social
A teacher with the photocopier drum burns to prove it.
Blogging at https://whatonomy.wordpress.com
English teacher, Head of Department, TOK teacher and latterday educational technologist (worked with Orange, Berlitz and Franklin Electronic Publishers)
Blogging at https://whatonomy.wordpress.com
English teacher, Head of Department, TOK teacher and latterday educational technologist (worked with Orange, Berlitz and Franklin Electronic Publishers)
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Finally set on returning to the UK classroom: either primary KS2 or Secondary English. Don't put me off, but do get in touch if you'd like to add some tittering to your staffroom. Please RT.
September 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Finally set on returning to the UK classroom: either primary KS2 or Secondary English. Don't put me off, but do get in touch if you'd like to add some tittering to your staffroom. Please RT.
Finally set on returning to the UK classroom: either primary KS2 or Secondary English. Don't put me off, but do get in touch if you'd like to add some tittering to your staffroom. Please RT.
September 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Finally set on returning to the UK classroom: either primary KS2 or Secondary English. Don't put me off, but do get in touch if you'd like to add some tittering to your staffroom. Please RT.
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The Oxford WOTY team's own coverage of 'brain rot' is here if you want to have a dig behind the headlines.
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Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press
The Oxford Word of the Year 2024 is 'brain rot'. Discover more about the winner, our shortlist, and 20 years of words that reflect the world.
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December 2, 2024 at 7:52 AM
The Oxford WOTY team's own coverage of 'brain rot' is here if you want to have a dig behind the headlines.
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
I have stage 1 Lyme's Disease! Hooray for the humble tick!
a black and white photo of a tick on a black background
ALT: a black and white photo of a tick on a black background
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September 4, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I have stage 1 Lyme's Disease! Hooray for the humble tick!
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The queue for the microwave is shorter online
What is the difference between talking in a staffroom and talking on social media? Do you feel the same sense of audience and tribe when you talk in the staffroom?
August 25, 2024 at 4:54 PM
The queue for the microwave is shorter online
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How long before we set online homework using AI, pupils use AI to do the work for them, the results get put into a report using AI which is emailed to parents, automatically summarised and replied to using a single click on predictive text?
August 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
How long before we set online homework using AI, pupils use AI to do the work for them, the results get put into a report using AI which is emailed to parents, automatically summarised and replied to using a single click on predictive text?
What is the difference between talking in a staffroom and talking on social media? Do you feel the same sense of audience and tribe when you talk in the staffroom?
August 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM
What is the difference between talking in a staffroom and talking on social media? Do you feel the same sense of audience and tribe when you talk in the staffroom?
Gloriously joyful colours!
I don’t want to swamp this feed with my artwork but I’m trying to sell off the last pieces in my shop as I’m having to close it.
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Discount code and free shipping available if you message me or comment below.
Www.folksy.com/shops/feltingfeelings
Discount code and free shipping available if you message me or comment below.
August 24, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Gloriously joyful colours!
I picked up my first pair of varifocals yesterday. It's like living in a fishbowl. Takes a lot of getting used to, but it's nice to be able to read books and then look at people across the living room. All in one fell swoop.
August 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I picked up my first pair of varifocals yesterday. It's like living in a fishbowl. Takes a lot of getting used to, but it's nice to be able to read books and then look at people across the living room. All in one fell swoop.
New albums alert for 30th August: Nick Cave's new album 'Wild Gods' and Galliano's first album for 28 years!
August 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM
New albums alert for 30th August: Nick Cave's new album 'Wild Gods' and Galliano's first album for 28 years!
Has anyone on here played the video game #DiscoElysium? Do let me know what you thought of it and especially whether you have found any other game that measures up to its literary quality. It's the first game that I genuinely feel is literature: more literary than The Last of Us.
August 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Has anyone on here played the video game #DiscoElysium? Do let me know what you thought of it and especially whether you have found any other game that measures up to its literary quality. It's the first game that I genuinely feel is literature: more literary than The Last of Us.
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How do we define quality student work in an age of AI? José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson have a provocative answer to this question in their new book, Teaching with AI. In my new blog post, I recap their answer and add a few thoughts of my own. derekbruff.org/?p=4270
May 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
How do we define quality student work in an age of AI? José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson have a provocative answer to this question in their new book, Teaching with AI. In my new blog post, I recap their answer and add a few thoughts of my own. derekbruff.org/?p=4270
If you are grappling with AI in your teaching, I thoroughly recommend this book: practical, neither evangelical nor doom-laden... it will help you to navigate these new waters.
August 24, 2024 at 1:50 PM
If you are grappling with AI in your teaching, I thoroughly recommend this book: practical, neither evangelical nor doom-laden... it will help you to navigate these new waters.
So, last night I had my first back-to-school anxiety dream! ...
August 24, 2024 at 10:37 AM
So, last night I had my first back-to-school anxiety dream! ...
Maybe I'll start a hashtag for English Teachers and AI: something like #PrometheusStuffsItUpForUsAgain
If you are a Secondary English Teacher or HOD, please connect with me. This year, I'm particularly interested in rejigging my curriculum and assessments to account for the rising use of AI. If you're interested in putting our heads together, please reach out.
August 24, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Maybe I'll start a hashtag for English Teachers and AI: something like #PrometheusStuffsItUpForUsAgain
If you are a Secondary English Teacher or HOD, please connect with me. This year, I'm particularly interested in rejigging my curriculum and assessments to account for the rising use of AI. If you're interested in putting our heads together, please reach out.
August 24, 2024 at 10:16 AM
If you are a Secondary English Teacher or HOD, please connect with me. This year, I'm particularly interested in rejigging my curriculum and assessments to account for the rising use of AI. If you're interested in putting our heads together, please reach out.
I'd like to change how I use these social media platforms: making them less 'media' and more social. So, if you catch me reposting non-education-related media articles or see me getting whipped up in clickbaiting shenanigans, please tap me on the nose like you would a cat. #Xanonymous
August 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM
I'd like to change how I use these social media platforms: making them less 'media' and more social. So, if you catch me reposting non-education-related media articles or see me getting whipped up in clickbaiting shenanigans, please tap me on the nose like you would a cat. #Xanonymous
So nice to see so many former EduTwitter friends here now on Bluesky. Please nudge me if I haven't followed you yet. I'm working through the list!
August 24, 2024 at 10:02 AM
So nice to see so many former EduTwitter friends here now on Bluesky. Please nudge me if I haven't followed you yet. I'm working through the list!
And for those who know, this summer I wrote four chapters of 'The Grammar of Dead Souls'!😃
August 24, 2024 at 10:01 AM
And for those who know, this summer I wrote four chapters of 'The Grammar of Dead Souls'!😃
My Lovely Valentine sounds like the most unlikely Father Ted mash up 😂
August 24, 2024 at 9:49 AM
I've recently acquired a lot of new followers here on Bluesky. How many of us have definitively jumped ship from X since the riots?
August 24, 2024 at 9:49 AM
I've recently acquired a lot of new followers here on Bluesky. How many of us have definitively jumped ship from X since the riots?
I'm reading an amazing book on tackling issues (and identifying opportunities) for AI and education. It's called 'Teaching with AI' by Jose Antonio Bowen et al - and it is very practical on AI detection, school policy and assessment design. I may review once I've read it, if you'd like.
August 24, 2024 at 9:44 AM
I'm reading an amazing book on tackling issues (and identifying opportunities) for AI and education. It's called 'Teaching with AI' by Jose Antonio Bowen et al - and it is very practical on AI detection, school policy and assessment design. I may review once I've read it, if you'd like.
Hi eduBlueSky! This is my home now. Don't go looking for me on X - I am resolutely ex-X.
August 24, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Hi eduBlueSky! This is my home now. Don't go looking for me on X - I am resolutely ex-X.
This blog improbably features a White Carmarthen Pig! whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/n...
March 28, 2024 at 8:23 AM
This blog improbably features a White Carmarthen Pig! whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/n...
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”A forever home” is standard phrase of where you end up, but does it reallly exist even if you stay put in one location as I have @whatonomy.bsky.social ? Life, places and people change constantly even without your own actions…
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The Black Carmarthen Pig
In the thick felt of night, at thirty minutes past its dead centre, I was visited by the Black Carmarthen Pig, troughing at my bedside. For centuries it is said, he has appeared - at times of plague -...
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March 16, 2024 at 10:46 AM
”A forever home” is standard phrase of where you end up, but does it reallly exist even if you stay put in one location as I have @whatonomy.bsky.social ? Life, places and people change constantly even without your own actions…
whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/t...
whatonomy.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/t...