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Our schools. Their future. Your choice.
Eighty two candidates are standing in Thursday’s Isle of Man General Election. I read every manifesto I could find, and went looking for several I never…
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Singapore vs New York City: AI is coming but who has the right approach?
New York has banned generative AI for six hundred thousand primary and middle school children. Singapore is building it into the curriculum. Both this year, both…
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Education: Extinct. The Overhead Projector
Hot dust and warm plastic. Acetate pens that squeaked. A bulb that always went mid-lesson and a spare that was never where it should be. The…
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Education: Extinct. Learning Styles
I’ve stood in a school hall with fifty colleagues, fingers pressed to my collarbone, switching my brain on. Nobody laughed. Day three of Education: Extinct is…
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Education: Extinct. The Computer Trolley
All this week I’m digging up the bits of school that have quietly gone extinct in a single working lifetime. Today I’m going back to being…
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Education: Extinct. The Nature Table
Conkers, frogspawn, a wasps’ nest somebody’s dad found in a shed. Every classroom had a nature table once, and then quietly none of them did. This…