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Martin Robinson

@trivium21c.bsky.social
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Author: Trivium 21c, Athena vs the Machine, Curriculum Revolutions. Education Consultant.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The effect of AI on learning:
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It should not be a discussion about ‘schools need a NEETs strategy’ vs ‘UKneeds a different economic strategy’ it’s both. Both the likelihood of becoming NEET and national growth need targeting. Schools can do part of the former. Why the worry about schools doing their bit?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“There is broad support for the idea that technical education should be placed on a more even footing to academic subjects, in order to better equip pupils for the workplace.” schoolsweek.co.uk/dont-reheat-...
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Don’t 'reheat' old technical education policies, PM told
Burnham’s new policy 'will need to change parents' and children’s perception of technical routes'
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (Official Video)
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is utterly bizarre. Shriver is saying expats are ok because they haven't let go of their national identity but the problem we have with immigration to the UK is people not letting go of their national identities?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Despite its pronouncements on equality and inclusion the Labour Party seems to be bending over backwards to try to help another white man get the top job.
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Latest podcast with me and @didau.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/DM_WyT2...
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The Cult of Critical Thinking
YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Strictly Scum Dancing's latest same sex couple
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Good morning:
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Is the film Hamnet manipulative? open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Hamnet - the film
Good or manipulative?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My take on the Golden Globe winning film Hamnet: open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Hamnet - the film
Good or manipulative?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A short film review: open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Hamnet - the film
Good or manipulative?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A short film review: open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Hamnet - the film
Good or manipulative?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Martin Chivers RiP
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy new year!
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Decline in use of social media worldwide, except in North America, Canada and USA there is an increased use. UK is one of the countries in the west where usage is lower than others. The extreme American colonisation of these spaces is clearly off putting…
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Happy Christmas wmg.qi-cms.com/media/w1500/...
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
“Too much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Thrillers should be on UK school curriculum to boost reading, says Lee Child
Bestselling author says focus on ‘masterpieces’ puts children off as he promotes prison literacy scheme
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If you were going to open a school based on evidence and logic what would it be like? The philosopher Bertrand Russel had a go: heritage.humanists.uk/beacon-hill-...:
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Humanist Heritage: Beacon Hill School
Telegraph House stood on the West Sussex Downs, very near to the highest point called Beacon Hill… It stood out […]
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Is this evidence that the diagnostic criteria, such as ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, and other diagnoses used by psychiatrists are wrong? www.newscientist.com/article/2507...
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Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes
People are often diagnosed with multiple neurodivergencies and mental health conditions, but the biggest genetic analysis so far suggests many have shared biological causes
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
conscious experience, bedevils cognitive science www.thecollector.com/rene-descart...
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How Descartes’ Mind-Body Dualism Still Haunts Cognitive Science Today | TheCollector
René Descartes’ mind-body dualism, the view that the mind and body are different kinds of things, haunts cognitive science to this day.
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“The British don’t much care for ideas…” unherd.com/2025/12/the-...
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The transgressions of Tom Stoppard
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our latest podcast (@didau.bsky.social and me) is here! It’s about belonging and not belonging and how far will schools go to satisfy Ofsted? www.youtube.com/live/Df5OPOy...
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Belonging in Schools: How Do We Do It?
YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My views on the proposed role for drama in the curriculum review: open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Drama and the Curriculum Review
Is the Crisis Over?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The BBC needs to be impartial, ensure diversity of opinion but, mainly ensure it agrees with me
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
10 key recommendations from the National Curriculum Review: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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National curriculum review in England: 10 key recommendations
Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
How long do we have to wait for Slow Horses season 6?! The end of season 5 was delicious…
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“musical training is related to small, but significant, cognitive benefits even when confounding factors, such as socioeconomic status, are accounted for.” www.economist.com/science-and-...
economist.com
Playing an instrument is linked to better cognition
Another of the many benefits of a musical education
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
“Once, we imagined intelligence as a single beam of light. Now it looks more like a field where two sources intersect to reveal a rich and new complexity that was always there but over our perceptual horizon.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
psychologytoday.com
Parallax Cognition: AI and Human Thought Find New Depth
What if the next great leap in intelligence isn’t human or artificial, but the space between them?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A PE teacher has been struck off having claimed he used to play for two top football clubs to land his job after being rumbled by pupils.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Teacher who claimed he played for football clubs to land jobs rumbled by pupils
Aaron Smith, 44, told staff and children he had played for big clubs including Leicester City and West Bromwich Albion but after no evidence was found online, investigations began
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
‘ V levels will be new Level 3 qualifications that offer a vocational pathway for students who want to explore different sectors before deciding where to specialise.’ educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/new-...
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New V levels and post-16 qualifications explained
We’re transforming post-16 education so every young person can gain the knowledge and skills they need to get a good job, go on to university, or achieve other ambitions.  From 2027, new V levels will...
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“Autism has become so diluted, we can’t really tell what we’re talking about anymore,” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/h...
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Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Research shows a link between social media use and poorer cognition in teens. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.
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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question: breakfast or brains? www.youtube.com/live/FASKHwB... with me & @trivium21c.bsky.social
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Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question
YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Jenrick: “it’s not about the colour of your skin of course it isn’t…” but there weren’t any white faces…
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly walk into the shadow cabinet room. Robert Jenrick walks in…
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
How Bowie influenced my teaching: open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Making Theatre, Fragment Cards
How Bowie and Cut Outs Influenced My Work in 'The Studio'
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Both my grandfathers fought in the war and my grandmothers served too. Their parents would all have been deported under Reform's policies.
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Never underestimate the power of that 'first conversation': youtu.be/rF6jWH17k9M?...
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Together Against Suicide | You Support Us, Let Us Support You
YouTube video by Tottenham Hotspur
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Having this guy anywhere near government would be a danger to public health:
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Of all the ridiculous “now that we have [x], we don’t need a knowledge-rich curriculum”, AI is maybe the silliest. How else are you meant to know whether it is right or wrong?
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“creative education has been “set back a generation” in British schools”. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/va-east...
artsprofessional.co.uk
V&A East director: My biggest ask is for government to reinvest in creative education - Arts Professional
The director of V&A East has said it is "a shock" to comprehend how creative education has been "set back a generation" in British schools. Gus Casely-Hayford, the inaugural director of the V&A's fort...
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Teachers as ‘Devil’s Advocates’
YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!
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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Here's my handout from my ResearchEd talk yesterday about the origin of the computational model of knowledge (and how this view contrasts with the normative view of the Sumerians-Aristotle-Wittgenstein) I tried to show different strands of thought: technologial, psychological, neuroscientific etc.
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
“Learning is a process that is not purely ‘in the brain’. It takes place in context. What things help it along?” open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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Fish Out of Water
The Predictive Brain, Education And Creating Stuff
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ffs, it’s got out of hand now:
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Back to school - the first lesson i teach with a new class: open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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How I Taught Drama. 1.
A series of posts. Number One: Centring
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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
“Autism has traditionally been seen by science as a deficit compared to non-autistic individuals. Our findings suggest it’s not necessarily a deficit at all.” www.standard.co.uk/news/science...
standard.co.uk
Autistic brains are ‘not dysfunctional, just different’, researchers suggest
The small study used brain scans to look at how autistic brains process information.
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