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Mini Series: Education Extinct
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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. The Literacy Hour
Fifteen minutes whole class. Fifteen at sentence level. Twenty in groups. Ten for the plenary. If those numbers mean something to you, you were trained on…
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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…