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Teacher of Lit, multiracial matters, bred on sci-fi and Greek myths. Innovation Lead & Head of English
•asking loads of questions
•will not be quiet
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MC @mchampagnie.bsky.social · Dec 9
What would Roland Barthes say about LLMs?
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#EduSkyAI #AI #EdUSky #LLMs #LitTheory
What does ‘genesis’ mean in the new AI age? A live streamed Barthesian chat about LLMs. .pdf
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Ongoing exploration of the intersection between #AI, #multiraciality and #sci-fi at bit.ly/4qFVO9e Is it weird? What isn’t? 👽👾🧜🏼‍♀️
How to be a hybrid techno-human, part 2: getting comfortable with discomfort. The image is a green hued alien-woman-robot mix. She has a pensive human face, elongated skull, reminiscent of that of the xenomorph and seemingly mechanical-biological armour or wiring descending from the back of her neck, into her chest.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Ongoing exploration of the intersection of #sci-fi, #multiraciality and #AI at madeleinechampagnie.substack.com/p/how-to-be-... Weird? Yep. But what isn't? 👽 👾 🧜
How to be a hybrid techno-human, part 2: getting comfortable with discomfort. The image is a green hued alien-woman-robot mix. She has a pensive human face, elongated skull, reminiscent of that of the xenomorph and seemingly mechanical-biological armour or wiring descending from the back of her neck, into her chest.
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Pips #74 Hard 🔴
1:55
Total brag tbh.
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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How to be a Hybrid and Rule the AI-lien Earth
open.substack.com/pub/madelein...
How to be a Hybrid and Rule the AI-lien Earth
Part 1. How it Began
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October 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Knowledge archaeology could be a useful skill in the future. #AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI

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A student in silhouette holds a spade above ground. Below the earth we can see code, books and the word “knowledge”. Sepia tones
July 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold
July 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Convinced that the latest release of #covid, Stratus XFG with its upgrade version XFG.3 comes from Silicon Valley as it’s giving everyone vocal frrryyyyy. I like the branding, but the free version does have some latency issues: takes a while to shut down ☣️ #Stratus #bug #virus
July 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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A rant, but come ON! #AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI
Move fast and break education
Around 2013 it became apparent to me that state education in the UK was broken: the ship was sinking.
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May 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Contemplating paying for either Claude or Chat. Anyone have any thoughts on which one?! #AI #ClaudeAI #ChatGPT @mikekentz.bsky.social @emollick.bsky.social @the-it-girl.bsky.social @leonfurze.com @timohannay.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI
AI: the culture terminator?
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” so the saying goes.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I love this perspective. Standing in silence, dwarfed by the vastness of the church, four pillars spiralling up to heaven, minuscule and insignificant before the Pope’s coffin, Trump & Melania: silenced. In the end, nobody is bigger than death or God. #PopeFrancis
I love this perspective. Standing in silence, dwarfed by the vastness of the church, four pillars spiralling up to heaven, minuscule and insignificant before the Pope’s coffin, Trump & Melania: silenced. In the end, nobody is bigger than death or God.
April 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Love this
Morten Moorland’s Times Cartoon 22 April 25, depicting the entrance of Pope Francis by the shining gates of heaven with angels blasting trumpets for his arrival. We see his back as he sidesteps the ostentation of the main entrance to enter by a side door, marked, oppositely, “Service Entrance”.
April 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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substack.com/@madeleinech...
Exam essays: only the semblance of truth.
Is it time to deprioritise written output?
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April 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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@anarchistmom.bsky.social very interesting convo between you & ChatGPT on Substackz. Multimodal assessment is surely the way forward now…
April 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Socratic dialogue in secondary schools open.substack.com/pub/madelein...
#EduSky #AI #SocraticDialogue #EduSkyAI
Socratic dialogue in secondary school
As an antidote & mitigation for AI, tech, screens and the like we have been running Socratic dialogue lessons in my 11-18 school.
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March 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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GOOD GRIEF. The plot of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ by Sinclair Lewis, NY, 1935, is basically describing USA 2025. Someone, please, get Netflix onto this! #dystopia #MAGA 😳😳😳 @netflix.com @drnjwaddell.bsky.social @orwellfdn.bsky.social
In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year. Portraying himself as a champion of "the forgotten man" and "traditional" American values, Windrip defeats incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, and then beats his Republican opponent, Senator Walt Trowbridge, in the November election. Having previously foreshadowed some authoritarian measures to reorganize the government, Windrip outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the "Minute Men" (named after the Revolutionary War militias of the same name), who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of a corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first acts as president is to eliminate the influence of Congress, which draws the ire of many citizens as well as the legislators themselves. The Minute Men respond to protests harshly, attacking demonstrators with bayonets. In addition to these actions, Windrip's administration, known as the Corpo government, curtails women's and minority rights, and eliminates individual states by subdividing the country into administrative sectors. The government of these sectors is managed by Corpo authorities, usually prominent businessmen or Minute Men officers. Those accused of crimes against the government appear before kangaroo courts presided over by military judges. A majority of Americans approve of these dictatorial measures, seeing them as painful but necessary steps to restore American power.
March 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Move from debate to dialogue. Binaries in AI pedagogy ignore a deeper proposition. #Edusky #EduSkyAI #AI
Unexplainably transparent AI discussing with a teacher in a classroom
February 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Some sobering stats and facts here arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17980
February 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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@the-it-girl.bsky.social hey hi! I’m on here too! Great to meet you (and be filmed !) geeking out over Brisk and sci-fi at BETT😬👽👾
January 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Interesting: I’m currently ploughing through one classical fiction novel per week, for exam marking later this year. I’m on #5 of American Fiction. The process is restructuring my mind, I’m sure of it: dreaming in my 2nd language; feeling more alert..🧐 #EduSky #books @englishassociation.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Connections
Puzzle #583
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January 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I’ve also been thinking about the microwave analogy. When they first appeared they had a bazillion functions & buttons.
We just use them for reheating food now. GenAI is great for some rapid info shuffling bit can be a sloppy substitute for the struggle needed for deep learning & creativity.
msoskil.bsky.social Mike Soskil @msoskil.bsky.social · Jan 9
Generative AI is to education what McDonald's is to food. It makes things faster and easier, but a society that is overreliant on it becomes incredibly unhealthy. #bskyedu #AiinEducation 1/5
January 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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@andyperfors.bsky.social THIS. Exactly what I’ve been tangling with. (Via Barthes.) But this is so on point 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #EduSky #AI #EduSkyAI
The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors
In which I become an old man yelling futilely at the clouds
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January 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Controversial take: isn’t using AI basically a giant form of copy-paste?
#AI #EduSkyAI
In a system which does not protect space for creativity & deep thinking, people will use tools that just get the job done, minus the thinking & personal creativity; all ‘ideas’ conforming to average slop.
January 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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John Steinbeck, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (1939).

Relevant to our relationship with AI? #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech We need to remember the land we love.
“That man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself. When the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land.”
January 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM