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Teachers vs Tech?
The case for an ed tech revolution
Find out moreEd tech has so much potential, both for teachers and learners, so why hasn’t it yet had the transformative impact on education that has long been promised?
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Making Good Progress?
The future of Assessment for Learning
Find out moreAssessment is a vital part of education, but done badly it can lead to distortions of classroom practice. Making Good Progress outlines the difference between formative and summative assessment and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of different assessment techniques and systems.
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Seven Myths About Education
Why knowledge matters
Find out moreKnowledge matters more than we think.
Project-based learning, 21st century schools and transferable learning: modern education is full of such apparently innovative ideas. But how many of them are based on evidence? In this book, Daisy Christodoulou shows through a wide range of examples and case studies just how many popular ideas about education contradict basic scientific principles.
“This may well be the most important book of the decade on teaching” From the foreword by Dylan Wiliam
Welcome
I’m the Director of Education at No More Marking, a provider of online Comparative Judgement software for schools. I’m also the author of three books about education: Teachers vs Tech, Making Good Progress, and Seven Myths about Education.
Featured blog posts
Here are some of the most popular posts from my blog archive
What the marathon teaches you about education
Posted on April 27, 2019
In my book Making Good Progress I developed an analogy between education and marathon running. Put simply, you wouldn’t train for a marathon by trying to run 26.2 miles in every training session. And…
Shakespeare and creative education
Posted on March 11, 2017
This essay was first published in the Spring 2016 edition of Use of English. I can remember reading Othello for the first time when I was studying A-level, and feeling slightly disappointed and cheate…
Why and how we should teach grammar
Posted on February 5, 2012
Take a look at this piece of work. This is a level 3c piece of work, taken from an Ofsted report. You can see the rest of it on page 19 of this document. From my experience of teaching English in seco…
Featured video
Sir Ken is right: traditional education kills creativity
Daisy Christodoulou debates Guy Claxton at the Michaela Community School Debating Education event in November 2015.
Guy Claxton proposes the motion and Daisy Christodoulou opposes it.
Recent blog posts
Here are my most recent blogs
What will COVID-19 change in education? And what will stay the same?
Posted on May 28, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I ran a webinar for the Teacher Development Trust where I asked eve…
Laptops vs phones: the learning difference
Posted on May 7, 2020
Suppose you have a couple of hundred words of text that you would like your students to re…
What does the research say about designing video lessons?
Posted on April 30, 2020
Education technology is really powerful. The problem is that it is just as easy to use tha…
What makes a good flashcard?
Posted on April 23, 2020
What makes a good flashcard? Keep it really simple. Here’s what not to do. The problem wit…