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I’ve just set up a free Substack newsletter where I’ll be posting all my future writing on education and assessment. If you’ve already signed up to updates from this blog, you’ll be transferred over t…

My last few posts on this blog have all been about the future of education and the impact of artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT. But in the last few weeks I’ve started a podcast on the histor…

Here are my slides from September 2022’s Research Ed conference, and below is a short summary. DC Research ed 2022 If you’d like to read more, take a look at my books! If you’d like to take part in an…

This was originally posted on the Lib Dem Teacher blog in 2015. Let’s imagine you want to teach pupils what a verb is.  You give them a brief definition, and a few examples of verbs being used in sent…

This post can also be found on the No More Marking blog here. Over the last few months we have heard a lot of worries about the potential ‘learning loss’ being incurred by students who have missed sev…

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a webinar for the Teacher Development Trust where I asked everyone which statement they agreed with most. One: The educational responses to COVID-19 have been emergency in…

Suppose you have a couple of hundred words of text that you would like your students to read. Does it make a difference if they read it on paper or on a screen? Yes. In this post here, from last Decem…

Education technology is really powerful. The problem is that it is just as easy to use that power badly as to use it well. You can see this with video lessons – clearly video allows you to do all kind…

What makes a good flashcard? Keep it really simple. Here’s what not to do. The problem with this flashcard is that it is not clear exactly what you are supposed to remember or how you can be sure if y…