Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic
This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...
Category: Culture
Education and the Great Big Disruption Machine
The Internet is all things to all people. Well, almost. It hasn’t quite got there yet in Education, for instance. But it will. It must. I want to look ...
Teaching Dissent
thanks to Jennifer Murawski for the photo When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedienc...
Hyperbole and Bad Faith
Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...
The Tree of Creativity
The world has already moved beyond the point where we need professional mediation to create, for example, a polished piece of video. Anyone today can choose to ...
Teaching for Creativity and Innovation: an educational conundrum
Probably my favourite method of relaxation is to pick up my guitar in the privacy of my own home and pick away at a few chords. I occasionally even produce the ...
Post Literacy Post-Haste
Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...
Learning and Forgetting: The Official Theory .v. the Classic View
Do you recognise any or all of this? persuading individuals that they won’t learn unless they make a determined effort, and that the fault is theirs if th...