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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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British values: Rule of law? Individual liberty? Mutual respect? Democracy? Yeah, yeah. Every country from Albania to Zambia claims those. Even insofar as they are true, they are certainly not uniquely British. So, what is? What really differentiates us from the Germans, Americans, Russians and Chinese? To my mind, it’s…
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This article by Dr Niki Kaiser was originally posted on the Kaye Chem Notebook. I wanted to share it with you in the context of ‘future-ready education’. It is no longer enough to teach knowledge, even if that is sufficient to pass an exam. To succeed in the future, our students need a deep and…
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The Battle of Waterloo, it is said*, was won on the playing fields of Eton. Building character, not imparting knowledge, was traditionally seen as the primary task of the British public school and, subsequently, its state-funded inheritors. The quintessential attitude was sportsmanship. Not winning or losing, but playing the game right. As time went on…
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Photo credits: Linden Labs/Alamy Do you remember the virtual reality environment Second Life? Seven years ago it had over 20M users and it was being hyped as the place where we would all soon transact our business and social lives. Now gone and forgotten. Well, not quite. Second Life continues to deliver real value in…
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I’ve just picked up a post on LinkedIn (here) that labelled the the above sheet as “Developing reflective learners”. Really??? To save your eyesight, here are the two student comments from the bottom of the sheet: I think that I did well on talking about the formation of ox-bow lakes and identifying river processes. However,…
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