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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 17m

And how to learn history and maths....

Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 19m

Yes, that's fair and certainly backed by the evidence.

Nonetheless, we will also need more "show your working" style assessment. (Which actually well designed AI systems can help with). And not only because gaming is/will still be prevalent.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 27m

Interesting.UK and France are fundamentally in the same political position - a left radical bloc, a centre bloc, and radical right bloc.

Something might turn up (growth?) but equally it might be a case of centrists picking their poison.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The crisis engulfing Emmanuel Macron contains a warning for Keir Starmer | Rafael Behr

The French president dominated the centre ground but has failed to build a legacy there. Labour is in danger of doing the same, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 37m

Yes, it's the heavy lifting of researchers, teachers, leaders, parents. My strong sense (looking at fe and skills rather than schools) is that learners are adopting and innovating fast and systems less so. The good thing about the survey is that kids are recognising the risks- so opportunities.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 46m

Obviously.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 52m

My macro take on AI in education is that the education systems with a culture of valuing learning over results will use it wisely. Those that valorise results are at high risk. Looking at you England.....

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1h

By the way, the Government's boosterist rhetoric, might be helpful in getting AI compute FDI, but it generates resistance too. People question the motives. The careful societal leadership of Finland or Estonia will achieve better educational outcomes. Human centric AI is the way.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1h

By the way, AI boosterism is an impediment to adapting teaching and learning systems too. It makes teaching professionals and parents feel like they are being done to rather than worked with. Especially on the back of social media impacts.

Basically, the public discourse is really unhelpful.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1h

There are two possible responses to this survey:

1. AI is evil, stop it now.
2. 80% of kids are regularly using it for their schoolwork, we better start to take it more seriously and ensure teaching and learning systems adapt.

1 impedes 2.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 13h

Midjourney was foretold.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 13h

*fireworks*

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 13h

Every tech revolution starts by promising a new enlightenment and ends in porn, poker and populism.

www.theverge.com/news/799312/...

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

www.theverge.com

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 14h

I bet Miliband treated himself to a new parker pen for this one. Then posted it as a gift to Andrea Jenkyns. With a bow.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 19h

But, you know, the price of eggs.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, and actually when we see small housing estates with no amenities pepper potted at motorway junctions, I think maybe not all development is good per se....

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22h

Is it this piece? Excellent. Asks the fundamental question- but what would the realistic alternative look like? "It was derelict!"

manchestermill.co.uk/the-billion-...

The billion pound Manchester question: Who has benefited from the city’s breakneck growth?

Critics say we have built a neoliberal playground for developers and middle class consumers. But that’s not exactly what the data shows

manchestermill.co.uk

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, totally behind it. It's a maximalist version of the current system. Which makes short term sense - as long as the new model is evolving within/alongside. Some signs with new towns but needs to be bigger/bolder.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

(and living in a gentrifying area for twenty years, actually it worked out well overall because of large numbers of social housing which is key - safer, better health, better education).

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, lots of good stuff in there. Though I found a lot of it frustrating- just thinking back to Liverpool 30 or 40 years ago. It's far from perfect now and enormous inequality/social deprivation. But who would swap now for then?

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

If I were the Government I would push the current system hard- which it's doing.

But I would also create the new system alongside it. It is doing that with new towns but I would do that more widely. And create a new financial model for social housing.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

And if I were a builder, and I am, that is the system I would back- the strategic development system that we see in most of northern Europe which meets needs in terms of numbers and factors in society and the environment too.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

One of the most tedious aspects of this discussion is that we have countries very close to us who understand this.

You can't meet housing need through a private sector driven system. You need a strategic system that creates opportunities for housebuilders but also meets social and public needs.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23h

One of the oddities of the current debate about house building is that the Yimby argument is in some respects a "blocker" argument in disguise.

If you want to understand why this report into what housebuilders tell their investors explains- cyclical demand.

housingevidence.ac.uk/project/why-...

Why have the volume housebuilders been so profitable? - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence

The power of volume housebuilders and what this tells us about housing supply, the land market and the state

housingevidence.ac.uk

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1d

Global heating 2025 in four headlines.

US offloads its consumption on the world. China wins the industrial future.

BYD

'The Stella show': the executive at the heart of BYD's global push

Solar power

US moves to cancel one of the world's largest solar farms

Climate change

Rising trend for warmer temperatures shows in latest monthly climate data

Renewable energy

China's Ming Yang to invest up to £1.5bn in Scottish turbine factory

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1d

Thief reports his swag bag stolen. Police roll on ground laughing.

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Scott Bessent accuses China of trying to damage global economy

US Treasury secretary tells FT Beijing’s restrictions on critical mineral exports will hurt its own international standing

on.ft.com

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