Blogs about Education

Did you know that you can use AI for more than just looking up information? I experimented with using Claude AI to generate an interactive math activity out of HTML, where students could input variables …

[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 …

As a stats nerd, I love it when clever people make lives easier by finding clever, easy, indirect ways to estimate the thing they want to measure. As a statistics instructor, I find such examples …

Apart from his comedic, dramatic, and literary endeavors, Stephen Fry is widely known for his avowed technophilia. He once wrote a column on that theme, “Dork Talk,” for the Guardian, in whose inaugural dispatch he …

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 …

In our ongoing exploration of creativity, learning, and technology for the journal TechTrends, my co-authors and I have turned our attention to the fascinating intersection of generative AI and education. Our past interviews have featured …

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 …

Photo by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash. Film composer John Powell said: “Communication works for those who work at it.” As academics, one key way we communicate with non-academic audiences is through public-facing events. A well-orchestrated …

Welcome to my 180th gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. AreaI love @catrionateaches's suggestion that students write a 'plan without numbers' when attempting …

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, …

Collaborative NSF Grants Awarded to Runestone Academy, Michigan, Duke, Virginia Tech, and Berea and American Institute of Mathematics Runestone Academy LTD got good news this week. We received our first collaborative NSF Grant! The grant …

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: By Tania Tirraoro and Sharon Smith Relax everyone, ISOS Partnership, the research darlings of local government, have fixed SEND for us all with a new offering, and what a …

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: 3 minutes What are teachers searching for online? For over 15 years, I’ve been sharing my thoughts on education on this site, and thanks to readers across the globe, it has significantly enhanced …

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 …

Hey there, future changemakers! Are you between 12 and 17 years old and bursting with ideas to make the world a better place? The Next Generation Foresight Practitioners - Young Voices (NGFP-YV) Awards are here …

For about 10 years now, I’ve had a profitable side hustle teaching writing. ANU has a generous external consulting policy, which means I can fly all over the country, and the world, teaching academics to …