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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Seriously turned out they thought I was joking but nope there’s only one way to get the kids home and it’s hell but worth it but HELL

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

New boss: So how are you going to get the cats back to England? Me: Drug them, put them under the seat in front of us on the plane, then get someone to drive us across the border from France to England NB: hah nice [an hour later] NB: okay but back to the cats, what’s the actual plan? Me:

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

On the plus side, I signed up, got a free month trial, got the book, and cancelled my subscription. So at least there’s no money for the evil overlord. Something something ethical consumerism something something capitalism 🥸

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Look, if they’re going to tell me I can’t read it, I 1000% am going to read it. (And yes I do see the irony of using Audible to do this… four months to go until I’m back in the UK and can finally access a library again!)

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Our head of marketing took a lot of photos on the night but these are the only ones I care about 💪🏻🙌🏻🎉

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When I promise to update my husband on the two important things happening today; the China school awards and tickets to the sumo in London going on sale 😂🎉

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Living the dream, two new laser engravers working non stop since their arrival on Monday! First up, a few tests, some art deco style gothic Operation games, and some very snazzy artist statement displays for our IB art exhibition!

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When all the goodies arrive for the next makerspace project and it’s time for a quick prototyping sesh… next up, Year 6 with their AI co-teacher Frankenstein operation games!! (Dang, what a mouthful…) #edusky

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Nothing better than walking into the makerspace today to find our new Bambu printers already set up and benchy’d 🥰🥰 We have the BEST EdTech assistant! (Also if benchy’d isn’t a word, it is now!) #makerspace #edusky

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“Process and expectations go hand in hand … teachers should break down the process with students and for students.” Time for @mralexedtech.bsky.social presenting on writing with AI, and is already off to a good start! #EdTechGZ

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“What’s the point in reinventing the wheel? In saying: that wheel looks nicer, I want that one?” Serious wisdom again from @drshannondoak.com talking about how and when to integrate new tech in your school #EdTechGZ

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Next session is a pretty packed panel featuring @drshannondoak.com and more! Love this point from the head of Shanghai American School: “What we’re all aiming for - student empowerment, agency, collaboration - is not what’s measured in tests”

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Talking about meeting my internet people, @mralexedtech.bsky.social is here and since we only ever talk online (despite literally living in the same city) he has a weird obsession with me actually having feet.

New obsession: “versa blocks” made by Gary Donahue over at Chadwick International in Korea. I need a million kits and I need them now!!

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First #EdTechGZ session with @mgwalchmai.bsky.social - Making Making Matter. Getting lots of ideas for how to adjust our MakerEd programme at DCSPX. Love the amount of integration with curriculum going on!

Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

So excited to finally be at #EdTechGZ after all these years! Bring on a day of learning and hanging out with all my internet EdTech people!

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Guess who’s making it to #EdTechGZ after all this time? It meeeee!

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Look, I'm not saying that I have a terrible habit of working on workshop presentations the night before I'm supposed to run said workshops... but I'm not NOT saying it!

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I think there are so many things out there that it’s about choosing the ones that will immediately impact what you do or what you want to do, rather than chasing the creds themselves - I know I did the latter for a while before realising it wasn’t actually helping. A bit obvious in hindsight 😂

Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’ve heard good things about this one!

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I committed myself to the most ridiculous December challenge: an #edtech #innovation and #makerspace advent calendar aimed at getting cross-curricular STEM happening for all age groups. First up, laser cutting contour maps in #geography class. Let me know if you give it a go! #EduSky

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I love that they’re getting other students to test it out!

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Having some fun testing the 3D scanning app from @niantic.bsky.social to scan some makerspace furniture in the hopes our primary school students can do their own scans and 3D model some redesigns! Just gotta get better at scanning the gaps too… #edtech #EduSky

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Two absolutely top notch books that I recommend to anyone stepping into the #EdTech coaching sphere. Thought it’d be worth sharing with everyone else as it’s recruitment season in the international school world! Do you have any other books you’d recommend to an EdTech coaching newbie? #EduSky

Two books on a great couch. The first book is pale yellow with large red text that says “The EdTech coaching primer” and then smaller text saying “supporting teachers in the digital age classroom”. The author is Ashley McBride. The second book is black but with a photo of a ceiling that has a lot of big old lightbulbs. The title of the book is “e learning ecologies” and the book is edited by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

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7 degrees up in Shanghai. Winter finally hitting I think!

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This is definitely not a promo but I'd highly recommend looking into mymind if you're like me and need to collate things from a million websites at all times! access.mymind.com

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I actually pay for the lowest tier which also gives me the ability to read/view content within the mymind ecosystem rather than opening things in new tabs. Once I've read it, I can then save it elsewhere, do with it what I want, or delete it. Finally feels like I'm on top of things!

You can see in my screenshot that I've been collecting a lot of articles to read later. It has been particularly handy this past fortnight as I've been deep in the throes of organising this year's #Learning2 conference! Now all I need to do is click on my saved readings/videos/etc and I'm good to go

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you're anything like me, you collect random articles, images, and screenshots that you're determined to go back to later... only you never do. I've been using a tool called mymind for almost a year now and it has really been a game-changer for staying on top of things!

Screenshot of the "mymind" website. A simple website showing square tiles. Each tile has a screenshot of a news article or image and a heading explaining what the article is about. Article titles in this case are "AI and the myth of personalised learning", "Do coding boot camps make sense?", "wikipedia declares war on AI slop", "fluffy AI and sceptical teachers", "openAI releases a teachers guide", "the dark library: when language...". There is also a preview image of an infographic about inclusive language and a link to a google labs website.

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In the complete opposite to my usual quest for fun new tech, have any of #edtech friends experimented with #dumbphones or Japanese-style #keitai phones? Exploring new ways to stop the doomscrolling (which I know is ironic as I post on bsky...)

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I finally downloaded Bluesky to my phone and I’ve just been scrolling happily through #EduSky for half an hour. It feels like the good old days of short form edu things online are back 🥹

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Completely unrelated to your post but I’m so excited to be back on a social media that has you on it my friend 🥰

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A super great moment was when the kids were desperate to tell me that the AI told them a different date to the book they had been reading, so they had to do a bunch of extra research both online and offline. Digital literacy in practice!

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Teamwork makes the dreamwork in #edtech world. Teachers in Y3 asked about using AI with students. After introducing them to schoolAI, I was blown away when I went into a classroom and saw students interviewing an AI Qin Shi Huang and then writing profiles about him in their books 🎉 #EduSky

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Amelia King @ameliak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

15k steps a day and 15k new things to learn... that's right, it's @learning2worldwide.bsky.social conference time happening at Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi. What a great experience already and still another day to go 🙌🙌🙌 #edusky #learning2

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