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Posted on March 20, 2023
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…
Posted on February 13, 2023
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…
Posted on September 4, 2022
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…
Posted on May 15, 2022
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…
Posted on September 8, 2020
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…
Posted on May 28, 2020
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…
Posted on May 7, 2020
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…
Posted on April 30, 2020
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…
Posted on April 23, 2020
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…