I have a mid-term break towards the end of October and would be happy to visit a school or too in the UK. Let me know if you're interested.

Lovely. And you can pop into that nice restaurant at the bottom of the hill.

That said, I'm rarely anywhere these days. Becoming a little post-social media in my dotage.

All gone!

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?

It is certainly creating new uncertainties. Most unwelcome after all the lockdown shenanigans.

Like a good Turner. Art can be almost blinding.

I've been told that it takes about a month to break them in. I'll let you know how I get on.

I stalled at least twice before being immersed. It was the humour and the political agnosticism that won me over. It felt like I was playing a skeptical political questionnaire and being berated for my variable views. And I fell in love with the intelligence behind it.

I'm really pleased to be here. I really haven't used social media consistently for some time and will probably disappear again for months at a time. But EduBluesky seems human scale right now. Small. Manageable. We'll see.

They are great for the classroom - for skipping from one thing to another. But they are terrible for jogging!

I'm beginning to think that a few hundred followers is more healthy than a few thousand and that millions is downright unhealthy.

I love bright cyans, greens... colours that seem like light. Let your retina be your pilot!

It's nice to start over with more intention. That's my aim. I had a lot of fun with EduTwitter from around 2011 to 2016... and then it became ever more deranging. I want my feed to feel more like a staffroom and less like a Roman Colloseum.

Preparatory week next week, so this is a last weekend before I go back. Therefore, this weekend I shall be drinking Pinot Grigiot and playing video games.