Maximising Student Potential
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Here you’ll find my rants, raves, provocations
and research about teaching, education and the educational landscape.
This site contains my personal views about education and teaching.
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How Many Standards Does It Take to Train a Teacher?
Education reform has a curious rhythm. A problem appears. A review is commissioned. A framework is introduced. The framework does not quite fix the problem, so a second framework arrives to strengthen it. Eventually, the system begins to resemble a geological formation: layers of policy sediment built up over time, each one deposited with the…
AI Is Not the Problem. Avoiding Effort Just Got Easier
One look at the headlines and you would think civilisation is either ending, ascending, or about to be permanently automated. Apparently, AI will destroy work, create infinite prosperity, democratise knowledge, eliminate expertise, replace teachers, save education, and possibly run the world sometime between Year 10 exams and the next university curriculum review. Not bad for…
The Arrogance of Certainty: Why Epistemological Modesty is Education’s Lost Virtue
In the current educational discourse, modesty is a forgotten virtue. We are inundated with calls for innovation, rigour, and evidence-based practice, yet we rarely hear a plea for the one thing that should underpin them all: a healthy sense of our own limitations. By epistemological modesty, I mean the unfashionable idea that we should not…
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