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The Variation Effect: How seating plans might be undermining learning
May 17, 2015 |
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Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.Marcus Aureliu...
Robert Coe on #WrongBook
May 13, 2015 |
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Robert Coe, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University burst into my consciousness two years ago with his vigorous critique of the lack of evidence underpinning lesson o...
Michaela School: Route One Schooling
May 12, 2015 |
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I learned two very important principles from my visit to Michaela:
You can do whatever you want as long as you hold your nerve and accept the consequences.
You can always go a lot further than you...
Why do people vote Conservative?
May 08, 2015 |
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Reason coldly of your grievances, or else depart.Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet
All my life I've been a left-leaning liberal kind of guy. I believe in social justice, equality and protecting those le...
The myth of progress
May 07, 2015 |
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We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.C....
Endorsements - what are they worth?
May 05, 2015 |
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it “recognition”!William James
You might not have noticed (I've been the...
What should written feedback look like?
May 04, 2015 |
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.Arthur Schopenhauer
In response to my last post, Cristina Milos pointed out that I use the term 'feedback' without providing any further...
April on The Learning Spy
May 01, 2015 |
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A few readers kindly got in touch over the last week or so to complain I was writing too much and that they couldn't keep up. Instead of shutting me up, this merely served to start me wondering about...
A review of The Beautiful Risk of Education by Harry Webb
Apr 26, 2015 |
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I blundered into a discussion of Gert Biesta's The Beautiful Risk of Education yesterday and was asked to justify my view that it's 'a bit silly'. Rather than do the hard work of writing my own critiq...
Chicken or egg? Thoughts about thinking
Apr 24, 2015 |
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Which comes first? The chicken of knowledge or the egg of thinking?Over the past few years I have been advocating the view that thinking is a very shallow experience without knowledge. It seems self-e...
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