There is a saying in Spanish El hombre es el ùnico animal que tropieza con la misma piedra dos veces: “humans are the only animals that will trip over the same rock twice”. Thanks Alex for the link.

There’s a group on photo-sharing site Flickr dedicated to teasing each other with mystery objects. Here is my contribution. If you don’t know the answer yourself, get a D&T teacher to help you. If you’re not a Flickr member, feel free to leave your guess in the comments here. Click to enlarge

Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget announcement on school funding has been widely reported already, mainly as an example of New Labour’s long-established vice of reporting every piece of funding at least three times. My interest lies more with the timeframe of his proposals. Brown is promising money to refurbish school buildings over a 10-15 year period. It…

One of my greatest failed inventions was selling worksheets individually, like these (scroll to the bottom of the page). Teachers often complain that they buy a Chalkface pack then use only half the contents, so it seemed a good service to allow people to pick and choose the bits they wanted. It wasn’t. Everyone said…