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Robert Macmillan

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He/Him Raconteur Modern Studies teacher. Good design preacher. robfmac.com ❤️ @audproctor77.bsky.social ❤️

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · Nov 13

To introduce myself.

I’ve been a teacher for almost 28 years.

Forever striving to help young people equip themselves with the knowledge and skills, to take the power that belongs to them, to make their world a better place.

Citizens first, consumers last.

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 3h

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Michaela Hall @michaela-l.bsky.social · 4h

Excited to share that my blog post on the motivation behind my research is live on the Gender & Education Association website!
#genderequality #Education

From Silence to Voice: Reclaiming the Curriculum for the Working-Class Feminist - Gender & Education Association share.google/eIiDslyv75Z7...

From Silence to Voice: Reclaiming the Curriculum for the Working-Class Feminist - Gender & Education Association

A powerful reflection on curriculum justice from a working-class feminist perspective. Michaela Hall explores how neoliberal education systems marginalise diverse ways of knowing, and calls for episte...

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?

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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 1d

So, I'm watching Sally Wainwright's excellent Riot Women – and, astonishingly, Joanna Scanlan's character has a copy of my book Daunderlust. I'd LOVE to know how the heck that has come about.

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 1d

Example number 20079: why making a crazy uprating mechanism into an untouchable shibboleth creates a totally irrational system.

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

Pensioners are on course for a bigger state pension boost next year than previously thought after a key figure used in the triple lock calculation was revised upwards

Pensioners could be set for bigger state pension boost than previously thought

Pensioners are on course for a bigger state pension boost next year than previously thought after a key figure used in the triple lock calculation was revised upwards. Office for National Statistics (...

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

What a difference a few years make.

FYI: The new ‘peace plan’ is still inconsistent with international law and human rights protections.

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2020 tweet - Trump’s so-called ‘peace plan’ is a farce. It is inconsistent with international law and human rights protections. Our Government should unequivocally condemn it because it will cause even more suffering for the Palestinian people who have already endured so much.

2025 tweet - President Trump, this is your achievement. I thank you for your tireless efforts to deliver this moment. The UK stands ready to support a full implementation of the peace plan.

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 2d

But they lost.

Look how bold Greece started against us and they lost.

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Educators for Peace @educatorsforpeace.bsky.social · 2d

For our next webinar we are delighted to also be joined by Professor Emeritus Henry Maitles, who will talk as through how educators can navigate complex topics in the classroom - from Nazism to apartheid and genocide. Sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/education-...

Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 2d

Surely this started as soon as families could afford to have more than one TV in their house?!?

*insert something about post-Fordism here*

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 2d

#TeachMeet20 a post of some of my thoughts about #TeachMeet which is approaching its 20th anniversary

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TeachMeet20

Looking back at the last 20 years TeachMeet and wondering about the next 20.

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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 2d

What gets me about this though is that I was reading and talking about this possibility in the late 1990s on my masters programme. Divergence in the media markets was being foreseen then as digital was still being conceptualised. So I guess my point is why has this not been better planned for?

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 2d

🗓 Last month's Calendar of Racism & Resistance shows how nationalism is weaponised against asylum seekers, against Palestine, & against anyone who dares to resist.

irr.org.uk/article/cale...

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 3d

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 3d

Can any Gaelic speakers tell me if Io sgail do sgiathan falaich mi means I will hide myself under the shadow of thy wings and, if so, if I spelled it correctly? Thank you!

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 3d

Not so much Hampden roar as Hampden bore.

But hey, we’ve played vastly better in a heap of qualifying campaigns and never made it to the World Cup. I’d take qualification over quality and so would you.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 8d

it's a good ass movie! you should watch it! archive.org/details/ginr...

Ginrei no Hate : Toho Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A Japanese black-and-white film from 1947, starring Toshirō Mifune in his first film role.Toshirō Mifune - EijimaTakashi Shimura - NojiroYoshio Kosugi -...

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 4d

The difficulty is in part over the lack that of specialists and the ‘one period a week’ curse.

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 4d

Many years ago, an RMPS colleague said that their alternative was simply ‘Belief systems’.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 4d

#UKEd #EduSky
If as @DanWillingham explained in @teacherhead & @Emma_Turner75's Mind The Gap podcast last week, causal thinking is at the heart of effective teaching, learn more at my The Professional Mind presentation in Edinburgh.

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 5d

PSA: stick your AI up your arse.

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · 5d

This thread is 🔥🔥🔥

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a BBC story “Does Scotland performance matter if win is the outcome?’

I mean, duh. Fortunately, the article actually doesn’t repeat the nonsense.

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 5d

Did you see this from #Biesta recently?

www.bera.ac.uk/blog/opening...

Opening the black box of evidence, urgently

The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea of...

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