Perhaps one of the most ambitious learning experiences a teacher can deliver is to make learning memorable for their students. It’s an experience that brings people, place, and program together in a special combination that is often hard to replicate. But it leaves many learners with lasting insights, feelings, relationships, Read more
Time and again, when it boils down to what parents want from school, one key finding emerges: They want their child to be happy. It’s a bittersweet outcome given the hand-wringing and pedagogical knots education gets itself into. If only children were happy… Perhaps the deeper meaning is a desire Read more
Everything old is new again, as they say. Sorry, but it’s actually not. What I’m referring to is the current education zeitgeist around explicit, modelled instruction, often summarised as ‘I do, we do, you do.’ Regardless of how people and systems are embracing this, there’s very little that’s new about Read more
“It is the business of teachers to run not merely schools but the world” – A Sociological Philosophy of Education, 1928. 2020 has received a number of big lessons from nature in the form of fires, floods, and Flu (capital emphasis for coronavirus). Perhaps one of the many by-products from these Read more
It probably seems odd to try to contextualise the past 7 months, but the thoughts suddenly started coming to me. Isn’t it odd when we make a change or a shift, often we’re simply looking for anyone to give us the confidence to know it is the right thing to Read more
You know how these things start: a tweet about some new research into the benefits of game-based learning spawns 45 tweets and all sorts of thinking about the intersection of games and learning. Yeah, that old chestnut. What was exciting about this tweeting flurry was that the insights and perspectives Read more
If you could have a day off tomorrow to learn anything you wanted, what would it be? Have a think now… There could be so many things you or I could learn in a day, probably the vastness of choices would make it so hard to decide. It might be Read more