Blogs about Education

Historical research reveals psychoactive substances to have been in use longer than most of us would assume. But did Adam and Eve do mushrooms in the Garden of Eden? Unsurprisingly, that question is fraught on …

Today is a good day for me. My new book, Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis, is now published. It’s my Johns Hopkins University monograph on how colleges and universities might be …

EQ (equalization) plugins are volume controls for specific parts of the frequency spectrum. Every DAW, mixing board and guitar amp has EQ controls, and they can radically transform your sounds. But while EQ is an …

I’ve been following with interest the debates around the rapid emergence of powerful large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, its Bing sibling Sydney, Meta’s Galactica, and Google’s Bard. One important recent discussion of this …

What happens when a call is put out to a community to explore the intersections of climate change and a geographic region, and to share their views and reflections via art? You end up with …

Submission by Juli Rush When I first came to the Foresight program in 2020, I was unsure how I was going to fit into the program or what I’d end up using foresight for in …

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 …

A dialogue with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 TB: I’m working on a paper about what it means to be a scholar qua “knowledge-able person”. I want to argue that a scholar’s competence is performed by thinking, speaking, …

This is a longer version of the piece I wrote on Generation Z for the London Review of Books: On the walk from the car park to my university building sits a red telephone box, …

This week a new collaborative article was published in the Asian Journal of Distance Education titled "Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape." Our friend and …

Note: The photo-manipulated image of me holding my own head was created almost 20 years ago by Paul Kurf, a student in my learning by design, class! Image design & layout, Punya Ethan Mollick is …

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash Recently, Zhejiang Gonggong University announced that articles published with MDPI, Frontiers Media & Hindawi, the three largest open access publishers, would not be included in research performance statistics. Universities …

Inside: Looking for ideas for your December kindergarten plans? Here are 25 experiences to help you create a more meaningful month with kids. Your December Kindergarten Plans If there is ever a month where planning …

When I was introduced to the practice of ungrading, I was drawn to a simple description provided by Jesse Stommel. The practice itself isn’t simple at all, but it was described, simply. I don’t even …

Teach the Future attended the thematic session on "How to Achieve Inclusive and Diverse Futures and Foresight: Ethical and Decolonial Perspectives" hosted today on Thursday, 30th March at 12-2pm GMT, by SOIF and UNGP. Structure …

It’s been a busy month here at Thesis Whisperer HQ… I am doing #LazyPost this month by recycling a bit of my teaching content. This post is about organising yourself for a ‘binge writing’ session. …