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Introducing... The Learning Spy Academy

Jun 12, 2020 | Category: Featured

The last few months have gone by in a daze. The world seems to have changed - maybe permanently - and my primary means of making a living has vanished. Without knowing how - or if - it's going to work...

How to pay attention

May 07, 2020 | Category: Featured

Here is my researchEDHome talk on attention.And, if you want to chase up any of the references they're embedded is the slides below: How to Pay Attention from David DidauI also want to recapitulate...

#attention

Behaving badly in public: Where do we draw the line?

May 01, 2020 | Category: Featured

There's never any shortage of stupid on social media. Barely an hour goes by without someone saying something breathtakingly foolish, and this feverish tendency has only been intensified since we've a...

A reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

Apr 25, 2020 | Category: Featured

When my daughters were younger I used to read to them every evening. Over the years we read all the Harry Potter books, the Narnia stories, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, The Hobbit, Ali...

#Kidnapped #Robert Louis Stevenson

#ProjectParadise: A group reading project

Apr 20, 2020 | Category: Featured

Well. A few days ago I ran a poll on Twitter to find the most popular long poem for a group reading project and the clear winner, with 44% of the vote, was John Milton's seventeenth century epic, Para...

##ProjectParadise #Paradise Lost

How should we decide what knowledge to teach?

Apr 09, 2020 | Category: Featured

Last year I wrote two posts on two ways I think we might be getting curriculum thinking wrong at the moment. The first is on cultural capital, the second is on powerful knowledge.Below is a short pres...

Homework in the time of Corona

Apr 03, 2020 | Category: Featured

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of uncompleted homework.Gabriel Garcia Marquez I've never been much of fan of homework, not as a child, not as a teacher...

Exam season and COVID19: What should we do?

Mar 16, 2020 | Category: Featured

In the current climate, worrying about whether this year's GCSE and A level exams are going to go ahead as scheduled may seem like small beans but it's a big deal to those directly affected. My eldest...

The dangers of hierarchy: a recommendation for improving Ofsted inspections

Mar 07, 2020 | Category: Featured

One of the many hard lessons learned by the aviation industry is that distributing responsibility and challenging hierarchical authority saves lives. From examining flight recorders and listening to c...

#Ofsted #aviation #Crew Resource Management

What I learned from visiting schools in Uganda

Feb 26, 2020 | Category: Featured

Some months ago I was asked to be part of an advisory panel on a project to improve primary education in Uganda. To say I was surprised would be an understatement. What, I wondered, would I have to of...

#Paul Bennell #Uganda