Labels are powerful in education. We should be careful about what we call things.
Tag Archives: Schools
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”
The Sacred Cow Series – What Is It For?
Well, that is a curly question. Plenty of dogs around the world can go and find the newspaper, but I’ve not heard of one that can read it.
The Sacred Cow Series – Labels Limit Learning
The names we use to describe students is a bad habit that limits growth in education. Labels limit learning.
Charlie Hynes 