I've been looking at a lot of edTech MIS systems today and am disturbed by how they are using LLMs (usually called AI in their marketing). It seems like they are using them to write reports on pupils. I know this is happening in other places as well (often just using things like copilot and gemini). The reason I'm given is that the admin burden is too high for teachers and admins.

Another solution, using stock phrases to generate these things quickly is rejected as it seems to impersonal and gives the impression that teachers aren't engaged with pupils' educations. Surely the LLM does the same thing will adding in hallucination (not actually engaging with the facts) and deception in that it looks human written, but isn't?

Am I missing something here?

#edtech #schools #send

"First They Came" by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1946)

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

#fascism #politics

School uniforms. France's lame-duck President has had many silly ideas - among them that introducing school uniforms would actually have the benefits claimed for them by English conservatives (despite much existing evidence to the contrary). So he started an experiment - rigged of course, - introducing uniforms in a hundred specially selected schools, with government buying the uniforms...

The preliminary results are now in, and of course the benefits claimed don't exist - although one finding is that both parents and teachers in the selected schools - which were selected precisely because they were supportive - continue to imagine them.

"The qualitative part of the survey finds that "the common uniform does not transform social relationships among students"... The standard uniform does not erase social markers, which are emphasised by other material factors, and highlighted by the inability of some families to replace a damaged or lost uniform. Both students and staff unanimously report no impact on bullying... "The common uniform reflects less a change in students' relationship to school than a collective effort by [the selected] adults to reassure and symbolise the educational framework, authority and sense of belonging they seek to promote," the study concludes. "In this sense, it acts as a mirror of [the selected] adults' expectations, values and vision of school, rather than as a tool that directly impacts learning or socialisation dynamics"."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/05/15/school-uniforms-have-limited-effects-on-student-behavior-and-learning-according-to-initial-reports-in-french-experiment_6753469_7.html

⛵️ We are sailing!

When they intercepted our vessels last week, and brutalised us, physically and sexually, the israeli army showed the lengths they are prepared to go to in order to block humanitarian aid to Gaza.

We don’t know what they will do next. We sail because the risk of not sailing, of normalizing genocide, is too great.

Witness is protection. We need all eyes on the Flotilla now and over the coming days as we sail towards Gaza.

Well, that's probably been the worst day for #Depression of the whole bloody year, but I did not get nothing done.

I finished an essay, and I think it's an important one.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-05-11-AGI-Will-Not-Have-A-Lizard-Brain/

Tomorrow, our nonviolent mission continues by sea to break the illegal siege and to deliver urgently needed aid. Soon our convoy will be arriving to challenge the israeli regime's illegal blockade by land.

By land. By sea. In the streets.

It's time to dismantle every system that allows israel's genocide.

Divest and sanction. Hold them accountable. Shut down the war machine.

When governments fail to act, people organize.

Together, the world is rising.