Blogs about Education

I have compiled a list of the top 6 awe-inspiring LEGO ideas that you can build at home, guaranteed to spark your creativity and test your building skills to the limit. Whether you are a …

A few years ago, we featured here on Open Culture the Japanese art of kintsugi, whose practitioners repair broken pottery with gold in a manner that emphasizes rather than hides the cracks. Since then, the …

While teaching non-right angled trig recently it occurred to me that when doing the questions myself, I don’t actually thing about the formula all that much. Particularly with the sine rule. Yet I still start …

This is a short book review and I will confess straight away that I have never read a book quite like it. The author is refreshingly honest about their own lived experience and their multiple …

This weekend saw Joe Kirby publish a thoughtful blog in which he calls for an end to Quality Assurance. I agree with Joe's analysis of the causes of poor accountability - or QA - but …

Full Circle

Holland & Knight sponsors a podcast about Washington policy, regulatory and political issues. I sat down with Lauren Maddox to talk education. Lauren’s first question was about the Pan Mass Challenge and why I ride …

As I continue to build groove pedagogy resources, I want to clear up some persistent confusion about polymeter and polyrhythm. If you don’t feel like reading the whole post, it can be summed up in …

What a fantastic study: Research recently published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that when people are prompted to talk to a stranger, surprising things happen: They start to feel less awkward after …

In keeping with tradition, here is the Tokugawa group project for this semester. I probably could have made more categories, but this should be enough. The rest of the class is pretty traditional.Any advice welcome! …

I have never seen a topic that has generated such a flurry of discussion and faculty development workshops as the entrance of ChatGPT. Although there is such energy and engagement around the topic, the reactions …

Congratulations to the August 2023 Professional Certificate in Foresight grads! Our in-person certificate participants are immersed in Foresight for a week of intensive training. Myriad sectors are represented in each seminar, providing fodder for fascinating …

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 …

The tradition they now represent has centered its chief inquiries around the two humble questions, “What do you mean?” and “How do you know?” Herbert Feigl, “Logical Empiricism” Christian Frankel sent me this quote the …

I wrote this for Times Higher Education a couple of weeks ago: The people who work in universities are made up of two tribes: tragedians and comedians. These tribes view each other with bewilderment across …

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) in devices that have become ubiquitous such as ChatGPT and robots have surely touched every workplace, family, and, of course, schooling. These cartoons, I hope, will bring smiles to readers’ faces. An …

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 …

There are a lot of problems with the current exam specifications, but one main problem is that they don’t allow for freedom in our subject. There seem to be so many hidden things you have …

Hello Learn Lead Grow Readers!A few weeks ago, I had mentioned that I was planning on retiring from blogging. The outpour from you has been amazing! After much thought and consideration, I have decided to …