Ageism - a thread 1/14

Did Generation X, who birthed the web & associated technologies, sow the seeds of their own demise?

#Ageism #Inclusion 2/14

US to UK, India to Italy, the findings were broadly the same: 45-60 year olds are the most overlooked employee bracket shows @YouEmployed report

“Once you reach a certain age, it just becomes much harder to access a job opportunity” @Mona_Mourshed

cnbc.com/2021/07/26/gen…

For what it’s worth, my take on current events👇🏼

Mistaking incompetence for strategy is problematic when incompetence is the strategy

1) Creative Destruction

Cummings, a modern day Robespierre, with majority can crash the country over a cliff in order to rebuild from scratch 2. A Cabinet of Incompetence

What better way to achieve a blizzard of “deadcatting” than to appoint useful idiots like Williamson, Patel, Hancock, etc to the cabinet?

Their vanity alone is sufficient to maintain the illusion as they grab the media cycle

#LearningReimagined 🌍

“Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.” 👈🏼

#EducationReimagined

link.medium.com/PTrBmX5Hz7 The education conveyor belt of the last century that went school to university to work and a job for life just doesn’t work in an era of rapid transformation.

link.medium.com/JxNJvsmIz7

#highered #highereducation

#AI & #education

Those believing that education is best achieved via direct instruction & testing recall this article about AI tutoring describes the race for automation

theguardian.com/technology/202… An alternative position

Why are we training kids to compete with machines?

link.medium.com/UoKqGOqDY4

In political jargon, a “useful idiot” is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandising for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders

vinceulam.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/sec…

#researchED #Sabisky @vinceulam The term was originally used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation. The term has often been attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but this attribution is unsubstantiated

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_id…

#Propaganda

Before entering No10 #AndrewSabisky was tested on the education battlefield via #ResearchED at a time when Cummings was weaponising Twitter with his “useful idiots”

In 2016 I began joining up the dots

I was accused of being a conspiracy theorist by those with something to hide January 2 2016

The Birth of Education’s new Scientology Cult

Dodgy data, dance moves & the shutting down of conflicting evidence - an age of Unthink

link.medium.com/0s0Jydj0a4

BREAKING: not famous former RE teacher & privileged white man (who is part of the problem) pokes fun at lived experience of very successful former Lewisham schoolboy @IanWright0

#losethebooths #exclusions

https://twitter.com/tombennett71/status/1228995946522038274

For those who have been blocked or excluded from Mr Bennett’s feed I attach the tweet that made me 🤦🏼‍♂️

Blocking on socmed can be valuable to prevent trolling but when it also prevents valuable discourse it also prevents the opportunity for growth & learning