Fantastic for #teachingcitizenship and anyone putting the spotlight on local elections with their students 😁

This will be a fantastic session with teachers supporting teachers sharing #gcse citizenship studies expertise 🙌 ACT

Looking for a reason to join ACT? Sheeren Al-Barzangi shares her experience with you! Expand your network and knowledge on themes like digitalisation and democracy at #ACTCON24 . Don't miss out on tailored resources and workshops! #EdTech #TeacherTwitter

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This looks great and will be useful for #teachingcitizenship too #SDGs #sustainablecitizenship #climateempowerment 😊

🚨BREAKING: The Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered AI publishes its Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024, one of the most authoritative sources for data and insights on AI. Below are its top 10 takeaways:

1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all;
2. Industry

We 🩷that you 🩷 our toolkit 😊 #activecitizenship ACT

Read the report: bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Dow…

🚨 AI Policy Alert: The German Federal Office for Information Security publishes the report 'Generative AI Models - Opportunities and Risks for Industry and Authorities.' Quotes & comments:

'LLMs are trained based on huge text corpora. The origin of these texts and their quality

With Citizenship being the most squeezed nc subject of all - continually marginalised by HTs who think form tutors delivery is sufficient - in an age when more than ever pupils need&crave knowledge about democracy, legitimacy of government, HR, law, sustainability,the media …

Equally baffling is why book editors get paid and chapter writers don’t !!
Thankfully at least ALCS ALCS is there to help writers get something !

Great to see this new professional development opportunity from Leeds Beckett for #teachingcitizenship leedsbeckett.ac.uk/courses/educat…

Investigate a diverse range of people and their portraits in our free Migration Stories learning session for key stage 2 students National Portrait Gallery, available to book for summer term now!

npg.org.uk/schools-hub/mi…

Local elections will happen in May, but recent years have seen changes to how elections work in the UK.

On 25 April at 1pm, join Laura Lock, Paul Tyler and Alistair Clark to discuss what has changed and what these changes could mean.

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“there’s a difference between holding tech giants accountable for avoidable harms and leaping to the simplistic conclusion that social media alone explains children’s unhappiness” ⁦gabyhinsliff⁩ ⁦ #ScreenTime #EvidenceBased #MobileBan #P4DF theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Develop a holistic approach to assessing #Citizenship ! This interactive workshop guides you through ACT's framework & practical strategies. Register: bit.ly/42Z9f8T #TeacherTraining #TeacherDevelopment

Good! APPGs needed reducing
Too many and too close to the organisations who coordinate them - in my personal view !

📅One week left to register to vote📅

Are you registered to vote?

The deadline to register to vote in the elections on 2 May is 16 April. Register now: gov.uk/register-to-vo…

The 2024 General Election in your classroom! ️

Students form parties, run campaigns, & analyse results. Get involved in ACT’s Parallel Elections Project.

#DemocracyInAction #Citizenship #GE2024

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Passionate about enhancing your teaching strategies in Citizenship education? Join us at #ACTCON24 to connect with teachers, experts, and leaders. Time to elevate your impact in the classroom and beyond! #teachertwitter #edtech

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Need a good video to help pupils explore world events?

From the war in Ukraine to the cost of living crisis, these concise and impartial explainer films from BBC News (UK) journalist Ros Atkins are here to help ⬇️

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