Blogs about Education

I've curated a stunning collection of 100 Google Earth images from the illustrious book Overview for your viewing pleasure!

Whilst Macbeth is the play’s title character, it is the witches who appear on stage first, casting an impression of their malevolent control over the action which follows. In the first scene, Shakespeare presents the …

Roll up, roll up, roll up. Come hither come all to the Carnival of Mathematics. This is the 224th Edition of the longest running Maths Carnival. For those of you who are unaware, a “blog …

It’s the holidays so that means there’s been a debate on edutwitter. I’ve watched some conversations regarding the use of isolation rooms and think there may be some confusion. This is a very short post …

Since taking the plunge with mini-whiteboards (see this post) over the past few years my ability to know whether students are paying attention, thinking and practising has dramatically increased. Because I'm usually teaching groups of …

I asked myself, namely my ‘Digital-Don', a chatbot created in OpenAI, what personality traits I showed, according to the well-validated OCEAN model. I was essentially using all of my writings as evidence, years of blogs, …

Full Circle

Jed and I have a new WonkyFolk out. Most of you listen on various podcasts apps but if you watch on YouTube you’ll see that although we don’t preplan Jed and I are aligned and …

The final topic in pop aural skills is harmonic sequences, strings of chords whose roots move in a predictable interval pattern. Sequences are common in European classical music. Listen to Bach’s Chaconne from the D …

I remember loving the library like a second, more-exciting home. The children’s room was fun, but the Junior High Room? Aladdin’s cave! And the adult room? Studio 54! Or so it seemed to 13-year-old me. …

It’s sheer coincidence, of course, that there’s a reboot of the classic tv miniseries Shōgun the semester I’m running my perennial Samurai: History, Literature, Mythology class, with the finale airing in these last weeks of …

Back in 2014, I was invited to join the AGU Blogosphere to post about geoscience education and educational technology (see my very first post, Join the Trek to explore Geoscience Education). Over time, as my …

More than 100 students, alumni, and friends of the University of Houston Foresight program met in Houston for the 2024 Spring Gathering to explore Being and Becoming Human. Travelers came in from as far as …

Have you tried any blindfold activities with your child? If your child goes to a Montessori school, it's likely they have tried some sensorial activities like the pink tower, knobbed cylinders, thermic tablets, perhaps even …

This post isn’t going to be very deep, but I’m taking a vacation next week and I don’t want to let a whole month go by without posting anything. I thought I would reflect a …

I reviewed David Brooks’s How to Know a Person for the TLS: David Brooks was raised in a Jewish family whose motto, he says, might have been “Think Yiddish, Act British.” He learned to be …

Ryan Fuller describes his career as follows: “Throughout my career, I have sought meaningful work that made good use of my skills at organizations that aligned with my values and helped me grow. This pursuit …

At the age of seven, I waved a medical encyclopedia in front of my parents and announced that I had “free-floating anxiety”. The book was one of only a few we had in the house, …

I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to work in our partner kindergarten in Norway over the Easter break, it was the perfect chance to spend time in the kindergarten without having to get …

As we get closer to the end for our Year 11s, it is so common for us to throw (metaphorically) everything and the kitchen sink at them. As they leave classrooms, we pile them up …