Blogs about Education

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 …

Phillip Schlechty (2011) theorized that the highest levels of learner engagement require learners' full attention and commitment. While some learners may exhibit "ritual compliance," simply meeting minimum expectations without true investment, educators strive to cultivate …

[warning - a bit of long post] Well, here we are! The end of 2023! It seems like only yesterday that we were starting to hear some whispers about this thing called "ChatGPT," but it …

Unlike the Chartr newsletter, I love this as it feeds my fascination with data and provides interesting examples for the class. As I sit here writing (5/11/24), I am enjoying my other favorite stats newsletter, …

According to many historians, the English Enlightenment may never have happened were it not for coffeehouses, the public sphere where poets, critics, philosophers, legal minds, and other intellectual gadflies regularly met to chatter about the …

Someone has left a newspaper on this train. It is open on a story about how avocados are being cultivated so they don’t have stones. It seems that modernity has left people too busy or …

Note: This is the next post in the shared blogging experiment with Melissa Warr and Nicole Oster. This time we question what and how we should be teaching about generative AI. The core idea and …

Non-fiction Viviane Robinson Reduce Change to Increase Improvement: My brilliant colleague at the National Institute of Teaching, Paula, recommended this. It has been hugely influential in developing leadership approaches that are clear and simple, and …

Lloyd Dobbler (John Cusack) in the classic boombox scene, from the Cameron Crowe film “Say Anything” (photo from Entertainment Weekly). How does book promotion happen when the people involved are averse to self-promotion? It’s a …

Tickets are now on sale for the book launch of Love Triangle by Matt Parker.If you fancy coming you'll need to move fast as these tickets will sell quickly!Information here: lovetrianglelaunch.weebly.com.A lot of my readers …

INSIDE: Find kindergarten measurement activity ideas for teaching length, weight, capacity and area using nonstandard units. Our Kindergarten Measurement Investigations Every January, we explore the wonders of measurement, diving deep into the concepts of length, …

SIGCSE 2024: How do you do it? A second SIGCSE is in the bag for Runestone as an exhibitor. It was a good year. It was amazing to see so many people who have been …

That’s it, I’m no longer posting to this site. New blog posts can now be found over on Substack at Andrew Old’s Education Battleground, or sign up to receive them as a newsletter. Details of …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: Today we have the second installment of our series on a decade of the Children and Families Act 2014. We’re looking back at what worked well, what hasn’t worked, …

In retrospect, I’m aware that I stopped blogging probably when I had the most important things to say. It was when I started working in an area of deeply entrenched disadvantage. I just couldn’t find …

Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you looking for some new online tools? Utilising online software for quizzing, assessment and homework can be a game-changer for student engagement and teacher workload. Finding the right tool for …

If you teach high school or introductory college physics (or just know the subject well), I wonder if you can tell what I’ve done wrong here: OK, well, I haven’t given you a lot of …

Peter's European Trip to Romania, Poland, Turkiye, and Hungary then Concludes at University of Houston As I return to the U.S. on April 19, 2024, I can tell you that Teach the Future is strong …

Ok, it wasn’t a fancy academic book, but still… I want to share how we did it, and what we learned about generative AI in the process, but first some context. For a long time, …