THOUGHTS ON EDTECH & SCHOOL OPERATIONS
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ChromeOS Flex: Could a Free OS and a £2.50 USB Stick Save Schools Thousands?
Schools across the UK are sitting on cupboards full of Windows 10 laptops that can’t run Windows 11. The hardware isn’t broken, it just doesn’t meet Microsoft’s TPM 2.0 and...
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Your School's Biggest Cyber Risk Isn't Hackers. It's Email.
Simon Freeman, Managing Director at IRIS Education, wrote a piece for Schools Week this week arguing that email is the single biggest cybersecurity vulnerability in schools. His core point is...
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AI in Schools: When Something Goes Wrong, It's Your Problem
I use AI tools every day. I build school software with them, I write code with them, and I’d genuinely struggle to go back to working without them. This isn’t...
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C2K Cyber Attack: What Northern Ireland's School Network Outage Means for Every School
Every school in Northern Ireland runs on a single IT network called C2K. Email, Google Classroom, OneDrive, revision resources, internal communications: all of it flows through one system, managed by...
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Microsoft's Windows Quality Pledge: What It Means for Schools
On 20 March, Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s EVP for Windows and Devices, published a direct letter to Windows Insiders laying out what the Windows team is doing in response to sustained...
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KB5079473 Effectively Kills Internet Access for Teams, Edge, OneDrive, and Copilot on Windows 11
Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 has introduced a bug that makes affected devices believe they have no internet connection, even when they’re clearly online. The result is...
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Microsoft Publisher End of Life: A School Guide
Microsoft Publisher has been the forgotten application in the Office suite for as long as I can remember. It hasn’t had a meaningful feature update in years. Most people in...
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SalamanderSoft: Keeping Your MIS and Cloud Platforms in Sync
If you work in school IT, you probably spend more time than you’d like creating user accounts. A new pupil joins mid-term, and someone has to set up their Active...
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ExamWritePad: Why a Purpose-Built Exam Word Processor Is Worth Paying For
If you’ve ever had to set up Microsoft Word for exam access arrangements, you know the drill. Disable spell check. Disable grammar check. Turn off autocorrect. Turn off predictive text....
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KCSIE 2026: AI Finally Gets the Safeguarding Attention It Deserves
I’ve had “KCSIE and AI: what the next update should say” on my list of things to write about for months. The current guidance mentions online safety in broad terms,...