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A year in blogging

Jan 06, 2018 | Category: blogging

This was my sixth year of blogging and it was a real mixed bag. For reasons of mental well-being I more or less stopped blogging in the last four months of the year and almost completely swore off soc...

Thought Depends on Knowledge

Dec 05, 2017 | Category: blogging

Paul Kirschner, lead author of the research paper that has perhaps most influenced my thinking, is a bit of an educational hero. Imagine my nervousness when he came to see give a talk on 'the trouble...

#Paul Kirschner

The 10 most popular posts on The Learning Spy in 2016

Jan 02, 2017 | Category: blogging

Here are the 10 most viewed posts of last year. Only half of them were actually written last year and some of them are several years old. I reckon this must in part be due to the fact that there are s...

My favourite posts of 2016 on The Learning Spy

Dec 31, 2016 | Category: blogging

Here follows a selection of some of what I consider to be my best posts of 2016. I've learned not to be surprised that what I think is my best writing is rarely appreciated by others and this is certa...

My favourite blog posts of 2016

Dec 30, 2016 | Category: blogging

Here follows my extremely partial take on some of the blog post I have most enjoyed reading this yearHeather Fearn - Reading fluency and the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’My only continuing niggle with Heat...

The revolutionary wisdom of the tribe

Mar 12, 2016 | Category: blogging

In A History of the World, Andrew Marr suggests there needs to be a balance between new ideas and what he calls 'the wisdom of the tribe': What is the right balance between state authority and individ...

#Andrew Marr #Neo-traditionalist #revolution

February on The Learning Spy

Mar 02, 2016 | Category: blogging

February was cold, dark, wet and miserable. Which probably explains why I go so much writing done. Here are all of my posts from lat month in one convenient digest.Learning about learning: What every...

Varieties of boredom

Jan 02, 2016 | Category: blogging

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do knowShakespeare, Jul...

#boredom #debate

Annual report 2015

Dec 30, 2015 | Category: blogging

Well, 2015 has been and gone. It's been a great year for me personally and one in which the blog has continued to make waves. It seems that as more and more ordinary teachers are liberated from the ty...

A roundup of my least popular posts of 2015

Dec 27, 2015 | Category: blogging

I love blogging and I'm chuffed beyond reason when a post captures the imagination and pings around the internet for a few days. But I'm always taken unawares by what's popular and what's not. Some of...