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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exactly - the people most likely to rely on AI are exactly the people who most need to be critical of it. This is especially true if pupils never study history beyond Y9 (14)

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A stone cold banger here too: "The skills our discipline has taught for generations, unfashionable, slow, and cumulative, turn out to be the operating requirements of an AI-saturated information world."

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This is a great read and has lots to say about the kinds of history we need in schools too

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Also love that this opens with Marc Bloch - one of my go-to historians when discussing the purposes of history and its inherently human nature

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Fabricating the past: can AI Really help reveal hidden histories in the classroom?

Really interesting piece - have been doing similar wrestling with the place (or otherwise) of AI in the classroom. www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/fabrica... Our main role I think is helping pupils be critically aware of how AI functions and therefore its risks and limits.

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Explore AI in the history classroom. Can generative AI help reveal hidden histories, or are we fabricating the past? Essential reading for history teachers.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"...calling a text extruded from an LLM a ‘history’ is, quite literally, a category error. There are far too many deliberations, choices, and cares in the production of a history for it to be something statistically generated, a mere algorithmic derivative." #NoAIintheclassroom #skystorians

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I know that @1972shp.bsky.social would be very interested in talking more about this with the DfE

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026

It would be good to know if there are plans to reintroduce vocational history qualifications like the History Pilot course. Had a great time teaching that to a really wide range of pupils. Brought in lots of cross disciplinary stuff, heritage and complex work on significance and interpretations

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The film Meta removed from Instagram… bsky.app/profile/roel...

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The TEACHER SURVEY should take 15-16 minutes and asks about your views on the topic and pupil knowledge / misconceptions. It is fully anonymous. york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... The PUPIL SURVEY is separate because it needs a teacher permission slip to be completed.

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Hi #historyteacher people. I am hurtling towards PhD research deadlines and looking for any TEACHERS and PUPILS who might help out by completing a survey about GCSE American West. Aim is to explore pupil metanarratives about Indigenous peoples and US expansion. Thread has more on the surveys.

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Ooh beguiling! Wish I’d used that term now

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For Switch 1: Echoes of Wisdom is solid A Short Hike and The Touryst were fun if short I’m quite a big fan of Steamworld Dig and Steamworld Heist - latter for turn based puzzling I was also rather fond of Cadence of Hyrule (different vibe but fun) Pokopia is ace but requires Switch 2

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Had not come across that one. Thanks so much

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This is super interesting. Rev. Samuel Marsden, who is credited as the person who brought Merino to England (he was a parson at Botany Bay) was the curate at the church my wife is now a vicar in. Until recently there was also a small statue to him in Horsforth. @histassoc.bsky.social TH204

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Typically great piece from Jane Card on teaching popular interpretations and why this matters. Well worth a look for those seeking to bolster interpretations work ahead of curriculum change @histassoc.bsky.social TH204

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Katie Hall @katiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks Katie. Yes, I really hope that what comes out of the research will be able to be shared with boards. I will be taking the findings and hopefully working alongside Indigenous educators and elders to consider the implications for teaching and course design here in the UK.

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Taking part in Alex’s research will be massively helpful not only to him but to the wider community as we move towards looking at reforming history qualifications.

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If you can do a pupil survey please DM or email me. The survey can be done in class before or after teaching (or both). I currently have 4 schools but would love to get to 10. If you are able to help out, even if it's only one class, that would be amazing.

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Aladdin's Genie Demands: Take the Survey!

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Fabricating the past: can AI Really help reveal hidden histories in the classroom?

This also contrasts so well with what the Any Human Ever project fails to do. Where Terry wants to help kids wrestle with complexity, AI encourages us to seek simplicity and, in doing so, erases the very people is claims to be rescuing from anonymity. www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/fabrica...

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Explore AI in the history classroom. Can generative AI help reveal hidden histories, or are we fabricating the past? Essential reading for history teachers.

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