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Dr Ian McCormick<p>Phones v. Violins <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23music" target="_blank">#music</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23edchat" target="_blank">#edchat</a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Is this you? <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23highered" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TeamEnglish" target="_blank">#TeamEnglish</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23edchat" target="_blank">#edchat</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23reading" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23books" target="_blank">#books</a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Nearly 300 academics have applied to a French university’s offer to take in US-based researchers rattled by the American government’s crackdown on academia ... creation of a “scientific refugee” status for academics in peril. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/nearly-300-applications-to-french-university-offer-to-take-in-us-academics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/2025</span><span class="invisible">/apr/17/nearly-300-applications-to-french-university-offer-to-take-in-us-academics</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Dickens Reloaded: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" ( <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> v. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>)<br>Create your own Antithesis Worksheet <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/TeamEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamEnglish</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.academia.edu/63384520/Antithesis_Worksheet_Charles_Dickens_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_1859_" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">academia.edu/63384520/Antithes</span><span class="invisible">is_Worksheet_Charles_Dickens_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_1859_</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Having been infected by the "woke mind virus" Chat GPT AI is refusing to work?<br>"Students are being reassured that it's acceptable to submit their own work during the Chat GPT outage." <br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.<p>Should we still care if students remember to put semicolons at the end of their lines, or should we focus entirely on higher-order thinking? <a href="https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/assessment-in-computer-science-education-in-the-genai-era/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/assessme</span><span class="invisible">nt-in-computer-science-education-in-the-genai-era/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/compsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compsci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntax</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>Curious about the impact of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tutoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tutoring</span></a> programs in the US? These four articles dive into their effectiveness and outcomes. <a href="https://buff.ly/4gXVWeB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4gXVWeB</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
Russell Contreras<p>Donald Trump is vowing to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and Kamala Harris wants to stem school shootings. Beyond that, neither has offered detailed plans for the nation's K-12 public school system, giving them a mandate to do nothing. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/08/31/public-education-2024-presidential-election?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2024/08/31/public-ed</span><span class="invisible">ucation-2024-presidential-election?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>If only that were true! Imagine the impact?<br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ResearchImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchImpact</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/RAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAE</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <br><a href="https://leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCormick" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCorm</span><span class="invisible">ick</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Strong support for research:<br>74% agreed that “the <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> happening at universities is essential for medical, technological and social innovations”.<br>18% said “most research carried out by <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> staff is a waste of time”. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/20/uk-universities-valued-more-than-institutions-like-parliament-and-bbc-finds-survey" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/2024/jun/20/uk-universities-valued-more-than-institutions-like-parliament-and-bbc-finds-survey</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Danger is “not the advent of superintelligent computers, but of subintelligent human beings.” Hubert Dreyfuss, What Computers Still Can’t Do (1972). <br>"Great literature is where the superintelligent human lives, and reading and thinking about it is our buffer against becoming subintelligent human beings." --- Alistair Brown <br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edtech</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/TeamEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-futures-towards-new-definition-english-studies-alistair-brown-i1ese/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/pulse/digital-fut</span><span class="invisible">ures-towards-new-definition-english-studies-alistair-brown-i1ese/</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>"Since 2010 nearly 800 libraries across the UK have closed, and visitor numbers have dropped too. " (BBC)<br> Just remind me: Who has been ruling our beloved country for the last 14 years?<br><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/68558474" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/6855847</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a><br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Anagram Puzzles - Verbal Reasoning <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/TeamEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/puzzles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puzzles</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39751432/Anagram_Puzzles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">academia.edu/39751432/Anagram_</span><span class="invisible">Puzzles</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Who doesn’t read <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> in America?<br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <br> <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/09/21/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pewresearch.org/short-reads/20</span><span class="invisible">21/09/21/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america/</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Modern times?<br> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>myth</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Be more like Daniel !<br>When I grow up ... <br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/TeamEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/EdChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdChat</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>"Many historians likewise have embraced digital literacy as one of the most essential skills we can teach students, but if educators bury our heads in the sand and attempt to ban AI from the classroom, crucial learning opportunities are lost. "<br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edtech</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/students-critique-a-chatgpt-essay-a-classroom-experiment" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">historians.org/research-and-pu</span><span class="invisible">blications/perspectives-on-history/september-2023/students-critique-a-chatgpt-essay-a-classroom-experiment</span></a></p>
Sharon McCarthy<p>Drawing Differences from Embrace Race<br>Free resources for your learning spaces - imagine a discussion of melanin instead of stereotypes!<br>How do we get our skin color?<br>How is our skin color similar?<br>How is our skin color different?<br>How can we create a variety of colors that represents the diverse spectrum of Humanity?<br><a href="https://tmi.community/tags/k12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>k12</span></a> <a href="https://tmi.community/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://tmi.community/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://tmi.community/tags/CRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CRE</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.embracerace.org/community/drawing-differences/program" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">embracerace.org/community/draw</span><span class="invisible">ing-differences/program</span></a></p>
Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.<p>ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03507-3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-023</span><span class="invisible">-03507-3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/edtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edtech</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>"Left-wing: Two broad ideologies: socialism and communism. Each are united by a set of grievance narratives which underline their cause." <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <br>- UK Government Training Module. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edchat</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.support-people-vulnerable-to-radicalisation.service.gov.uk/awareness-course/left-wing-anarchist-and-single-issue-ideologies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">support-people-vulnerable-to-r</span><span class="invisible">adicalisation.service.gov.uk/awareness-course/left-wing-anarchist-and-single-issue-ideologies</span></a></p>