Great to see this Special Issue on Educational Activism is out:
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Great to see this Special Issue on Educational Activism is out:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/esja/21/...
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Great challenge here - we really need to address this gap in ITE provision if the new curriculum has a hope
The Matrix of Coordinated Influence. Traditional frameworks for analyzing online influence focus on the distinction between human and automated actors (Identity Axis) or between spontaneous and coordinated behavior (Articulation Axis). Bot Nets (top-left) rely on synthetic identities and automated scripts. Troll Farms (bottom-left) use human operators to manage fake personas. Grassroots Action (bottom-right) involves verified citizens sharing self-authored views. Cyborg Propaganda (top-right) represents a new paradigm: verified human users disseminating centrally generated, algorithmically generated narratives, effectively ‘hybridizing’ the authenticity of the grassroots with the scale of the botnet.
The distinction between grassroots activism and automated influence is collapsing.
We typically worry about "bot farms" or "troll factories." But a distinct, more complex threat is emerging. We call it "Cyborg Propaganda."
📮Votes at 16: As the UK moves towards a lower voting age, young people want and need Citizenship education – and specialist teachers – to prepare them for the future. @citizenshippgceioe.bsky.social
Hans Svennevig writes on the IOE blog
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Our legacies, especially in education, are ultimately secured by how we set about doing things, rather than whether we achieved short term metrics. The process of education transforms lives over time and leaders who allow themselves to believe the ends justify the means are missing the point.
"Youth Select Committee inquiry into PSHE in secondary schools" www.parliament.uk/business/new...
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'It is important to separate healthy debate from conspiratorial thinking. Pupils questioning what they learn about politics, history or science is a sign of curiosity and good teaching welcomes that'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/teachers-must-call-pupils-in-not-out-on-conspiracy-theories/
The government will introduce a new national curriculum from 2028, scrap the EBacc league table measure, make citizenship compulsory in primary schools and force all secondaries to offer triple science GCSE
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curriculum-to-be-introduced-in-2028-as-review-published/
Great to see the curriculum review recommending citizenship in primary and secondary, a focus on young people’s demands - finance, digital and media literacy, climate, equality, and preparing for votes at 16. And all wrapped up in an oracy framework. Exciting times ahead.
The first 2 events of the new @educatorsforpeace.bsky.social
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1.Tackling the far right
2.Challenging neutrality in education.
Third in the series can be booked 👇🏽
@markrpriestley.bsky.social will talk about curricular justice.
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Free open access book! Link in comments. #socialstudies #peaceeducation #socialeducation #globaleducation
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Very relevant new article here on ‘educide’ in Gaza journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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You know, maybe the DfE needs to ask itself the question about why, if the current extremely heavy emphasis on phonics is 'working', they still need to test reading in year 8? 🤷♀️
#pshe
Autistic folks are _heavily_ represented in STEM fields, so it would be far more accurate to say:
Autism causes vaccines.
NEW on Wonkhe: Universities run on heritage, tacit understandings and institutional memory. Kurt Barling explains why this means the sector must take control of how AI is designed and deployed buff.ly/bVNqT4B
Great article from Norway on the links between #re #religiouseducation #citizenship and relevant to #pshe teachers in England in #ecsj
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This article is fresh in #ecsj and illustrates why preparing teachers to engage with controversial issues in the classroom remains such a challenge #citizenship #pshe
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Another fascinating #ecsj article on the benefits of journalism education for #citizenship #pshe
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I love it when articles like this pop up in #ecsj that make you think hard about the relationship between the individual young person and the challenges of #citizenship education #pshe
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It was Green Party policy to champion citizenship education I think, maybe the message got lost
This article explains some of the educational mess we’ve got ourselves into… The curriculum review really should address implementation as well as simply listing content that can be ignored, but even that only addresses the problems in England www.jsse.org/index.php/js...
One approach is to teach about the ‘values’ as concepts to be applied to encourage critical and evaluative thinking about contemporary issues. Otherwise I think the idea of ‘promoting’ democracy or the rule of law as ‘values’ can avoid the political dimension. openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/prism/articl...
This is a really interesting ECSJ article for those thinking about the connections between citizenship and religious education - makes a strong case for using ‘world views’ to bring coherence to teaching journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
