Sue Cowley
@suecowley.bsky.social
UK based writer / teacher / CPD provider / presenter. I help to run a preschool. I love gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers.
Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
I was trying to do something that involved a pdf today and the AI that's now in adobe made it almost impossible to work with a simple document. They need to stop with this ****!
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I was trying to do something that involved a pdf today and the AI that's now in adobe made it almost impossible to work with a simple document. They need to stop with this ****!
I think children and young people need to feel a sense of discovery even while adults are guiding the content and the environment. Being curious is a skill we can learn how to use! It gives us a sense of agency. If we only ever memorise what people have already found out, learning becomes static. 🤷♀️
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
Why on earth is the DfE forcing this stuff onto hard pressed schools especially if it's not actually helping? I would ask them if they were on here but they're obviously too busy finding pointless use cases for AI. 🙄
schoolsweek.co.uk/leaders-stil...
schoolsweek.co.uk/leaders-stil...
Leaders still facing problems with AI attendance reports
Department for Education says 'no model is perfect' as heads flag concerns with similar school groupings
schoolsweek.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Why on earth is the DfE forcing this stuff onto hard pressed schools especially if it's not actually helping? I would ask them if they were on here but they're obviously too busy finding pointless use cases for AI. 🙄
schoolsweek.co.uk/leaders-stil...
schoolsweek.co.uk/leaders-stil...
Very cool thread! Drama teachers especially will love this. ⬇️
Bill helped me find some images from the production, including Caliban's submerged tank shown above, and this picture of the superb galleon in action.
![The galleon from Neville Coghill's 1949 Tempest, "made of punts strapped together with the superstructure of the galleon built on top of them. It was poled along by among others Tom Chitty the novelist [Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (born 1926), better known as Thomas Hinde]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vbkz3bfhrucwtfq7ujm3ohno/bafkreiadtwr4muf3mgymmicmgbbfaiul35rxsjjsiiir4cs3rdeyqrwhqm@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Very cool thread! Drama teachers especially will love this. ⬇️
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‘Some time in the last couple of months, AI went from being a topic of largely theoretical interest to an actively intrusive pest’
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Leave me alone, AI
If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it
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December 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
‘Some time in the last couple of months, AI went from being a topic of largely theoretical interest to an actively intrusive pest’
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FFS if an essay is **** we need to be free to explain why that is and how to improve it or else all hope of learning is lost.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
FFS if an essay is **** we need to be free to explain why that is and how to improve it or else all hope of learning is lost.
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When I was in primary school, we were admonished not to speak Scots, that it was "slang" & for "Low Class" people. It makes me cry to see how much attitudes have changed & that Scots & Gaelic are being celebrated & promoted in Scotland & by the Scottish government.
#Scots #Scotland #Gaelic
#Scots #Scotland #Gaelic
From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages.
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🎁🎄
Our chocolate boxes feel extra magical this time of the year! ✨
If you’re looking for something thoughtful, delicious, and a little bit showy under the Christmas tree, this is it. Treat someone you love or create a box just for yourself. A little luxury never hurts. 🎄🍫
If you’re looking for something thoughtful, delicious, and a little bit showy under the Christmas tree, this is it. Treat someone you love or create a box just for yourself. A little luxury never hurts. 🎄🍫
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🎁🎄
I tried to explain my thinking on #SEND and behaviour this morning in this thread. Always useful to revisit the Salamanca Statement too. 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I tried to explain my thinking on #SEND and behaviour this morning in this thread. Always useful to revisit the Salamanca Statement too. 🧵
I think children and young people need to feel a sense of discovery even while adults are guiding the content and the environment. Being curious is a skill we can learn how to use! It gives us a sense of agency. If we only ever memorise what people have already found out, learning becomes static. 🤷♀️
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I think children and young people need to feel a sense of discovery even while adults are guiding the content and the environment. Being curious is a skill we can learn how to use! It gives us a sense of agency. If we only ever memorise what people have already found out, learning becomes static. 🤷♀️
This is bizarre but why on earth do the young people let them do it? My kids would be like 'don't be a weirdo mum' if I even suggested it.
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is bizarre but why on earth do the young people let them do it? My kids would be like 'don't be a weirdo mum' if I even suggested it.
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Excellent, clear analysis.
“This is as close to a pure, uncontested case study as one is ever likely to see in modern military operations.”
“This is as close to a pure, uncontested case study as one is ever likely to see in modern military operations.”
Hegseth's "Kill Everybody" Drug Strike Order and the Duty to Refuse That Didn’t Happen. A Deeper Look Analysis.
In recent days, information has surfaced that provides what appears to be a textbook example of an unlawful order that could have—and should have—been refused.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Excellent, clear analysis.
“This is as close to a pure, uncontested case study as one is ever likely to see in modern military operations.”
“This is as close to a pure, uncontested case study as one is ever likely to see in modern military operations.”
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Everyone has absolutely lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Everyone has absolutely lost their minds.
🧵 Just a few thoughts on the SEND/'bad behaviour' discussions that I'm seeing atm. Firstly I wish we would stop using 'bad' when talking about behaviour. We're not engaged in a moral judgement. Calling behaviour 'bad' doesn't sit well with having unconditional positive regard for young people. 1/5
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🧵 Just a few thoughts on the SEND/'bad behaviour' discussions that I'm seeing atm. Firstly I wish we would stop using 'bad' when talking about behaviour. We're not engaged in a moral judgement. Calling behaviour 'bad' doesn't sit well with having unconditional positive regard for young people. 1/5
This is fascinating. I'm lucky enough to have been to this incredible place and it's really quite something.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is fascinating. I'm lucky enough to have been to this incredible place and it's really quite something.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
I really hate a lot of what Labour has been doing since they got into power but that budget seemed okay to me. Can't see what all the fuss is about but I suspect it's disingenuous. 🤷♀️
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I really hate a lot of what Labour has been doing since they got into power but that budget seemed okay to me. Can't see what all the fuss is about but I suspect it's disingenuous. 🤷♀️
If you're only following a few hundred people, and you haven't yet posted more than a few hundred times, I'm sorry but of *course* your bluesky feed is going to feel quiet! People need to think back to when they first joined twitter and how it felt like shouting into the void.
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
If you're only following a few hundred people, and you haven't yet posted more than a few hundred times, I'm sorry but of *course* your bluesky feed is going to feel quiet! People need to think back to when they first joined twitter and how it felt like shouting into the void.
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If we really want children and young people to think hard, we have to give them at least some chances to find out stuff for themselves. To have agency! Learning is not just about transferring knowledge into memory. ☺️ #EduSky
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If we really want children and young people to think hard, we have to give them at least some chances to find out stuff for themselves. To have agency! Learning is not just about transferring knowledge into memory. ☺️ #EduSky
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@suecowley.bsky.social This one is for us.
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
@suecowley.bsky.social This one is for us.
If we really want children and young people to think hard, we have to give them at least some chances to find out stuff for themselves. To have agency! Learning is not just about transferring knowledge into memory. ☺️ #EduSky
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If we really want children and young people to think hard, we have to give them at least some chances to find out stuff for themselves. To have agency! Learning is not just about transferring knowledge into memory. ☺️ #EduSky
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R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
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AI could never replicate the joyful work of getting to this photo. 🌱☺️
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
AI could never replicate the joyful work of getting to this photo. 🌱☺️