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Thanks for your feedback James. An interesting question about whether my increased understanding of LA has affected my own behaviours; in short, I don’t think so. However, it has affected my attitudes towards the use of data in the schools and the Trusts I work with. Even key figures in the field – such as Siemens and Gašević – acknowledge that it is an emergent science and much work is needed to ensure that LA offers improved experiences and outcomes for students. In my experience, the focus on summative data in schools and their use as a means to judge staff and students is crude and often unhelpful.

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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ https://t.co/RhgMCOMVi2 #mscedc

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ https://t.co/RhgMCOMVi2 #mscedc

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Harari’s thinking here is at times, determinist, but the discussion of transhumanist ideas is interesting: “I think that Homo sapiens as we know them will probably disappear within a century or so, not destroyed by killer robots or things like that, but changed and upgraded with biotechnology and artificial intelligence into something else, into something different. The timescale for that kind of change is maybe a century.”

@notwithabrush @learntechstu am loving this. #mscedc https://t.co/JlzCCI2YNu

@notwithabrush @learntechstu am loving this. #mscedc https://t.co/JlzCCI2YNu

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As sceptical as I can be about big data and algorithms, I find the results endlessly fascinating. The distillation of our discussion into this word cloud is brilliantly nonsensical.

@learntechstu @nigelchpainting @Tauraco maybe shouldn’t have #mscedc tagged that. This cheese will be messing with the data.

@learntechstu @nigelchpainting @Tauraco maybe shouldn’t have #mscedc tagged that. This cheese will be messing with the data.

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@learntechstu @nigelchpainting @Tauraco what did the Mexican say to his pal who was trying to steal his cheese? ‘Nacho cheese!’ #mscedc

@learntechstu @nigelchpainting @Tauraco what did the Mexican say to his pal who was trying to steal his cheese? ‘Nacho cheese!’ #mscedc

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When I was doing my PGCE, we were taught about the inherent value of off-task talking. I hope James and Jeremy are tolerant of it…