Schools – Charlie Hynes

It’s The Workload, Stupid

The biggest issue in schools is not the one you might think… It’s the workload, stupid

The Sugar Hit of Bad Resources

Robert Podiscio found that many teachers google their teaching resources. The good, the bad and maybe a solution for it.

The Power of Labels in Education

Labels are powerful in education. We should be careful about what we call things.

Zeno’s Shipwreck: Insights From a Good Learning Journey

How can an ancient shipwreck spark a modern journey of learning and exploration?

Principles of Remote Teaching: Let Go

A working teacher shares some tips for effective teaching in the remote environment.

Take Five: All that EduTwitters is not gold

All the EduTwitters is not gold, but it is still worth looking.

Lockdown Learning 2.0: The Redoubling

Facing deeper lockdown and longer remote learning, we must redouble our effort and energy.

The Business is Learning, not Teaching

As we head back for a second helping of remote learning, the focus must be on the learning, not the teaching.

Lockdown Takeout: The Magic of the Reading Habit

Every obstacle provides an opportunity for growth. This idea is not new and it is not mine. You see it threaded through tomes in airport bookshops, where charlatans and sheisters claim they discovered this essential truth, ignoring that fact that learned older and wiser minds sorted that out a long time ago. What an opportunityContinue reading “Lockdown Takeout: The Magic of the Reading Habit”

Writing and Technology: The Middle Path

We should be flying our cars by now, not driving. There should be robots in every home and widespread interstellar tourism. The future is always uncertain – wrong assumptions remind us this all the time. Often, it turns out science fiction overestimates the extent and nature of change in our world. Related to this fromContinue reading “Writing and Technology: The Middle Path”