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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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Differentiation Is Not the Problem. Pretending It’s Easy Is.

Somewhere right now, a teacher is producing three versions of the same worksheet and calling it inclusive practice. There is the “support” version, where a few of the harder questions have quietly disappeared. There is the “extension” version, where the same questions have been given an extra verb, probably “evaluate”, because nothing says academic stretch…

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…

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