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Loving listening to @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and Amy on open.spotify.com/episode/2za7... until Adam tried the Yorkshire accent :-)

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On Friday's TGT; Thomas Young - physician, scientist, linguist, historian. Incredible polymath - he is described by his biographer as The Last Man Who Knew Everything. Which is a pretty provocative statement to discuss the merits of with your tutees tomorrow. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

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Guess what I was teaching today ... #ITeachPhysics #SciTeachUK #UKEd

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It is strange that people today do not think as they did 80 years ago - very puzzling.

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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I wrote 60000+ words for “Why Don’t Things Fall Up!” It took me months and months of work, and I got paid less than equivalent of two months of a teachers’ salary. It’s now being sold for £3 on Amazon so would have to sell many thousands of copies for me to start earning royalties.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Received "laughs out loud" when excepts were quoted at home this evening. High praise indeed.

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A pastiche of Jamie Oliver's advice to the education profession on how to run schools open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

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This week! I’ll be carrying out trust work early in the week then Thursday I’ll be delivering at the Annual Inspiring Leadership Conference for the @NAHTnews check out the speakers! @jazampawfarr.bsky.social @hywelroberts.bsky.social @angelabrowne.bsky.social @jillberry102.bsky.social and more!

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🧵 One of the biggest myths in education since I started teaching in 2010 is this: The knowledge-rich curriculum The myth is that knowing more will improve the quality of children's lives. It's built on the lie that knowledge = grades = good job = happiness. It's a lie.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

For any of you for whom this might make a difference, Amazon are selling the paperback edition of “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” for the ridiculous price of £3. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/152934819...

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At full price Alom's excellent book is still an absolute bargain. If you teach science, learn science, do science or have just heard of science, you should buy it and read it. At this bargain price, but another one to give to a friend. (Gonna get one myself for our probationer teacher.)

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A gay man, who died by suicide as a result of his sexuality, made one of the single biggest contributions to espionage and ending WW2 years earlier than would have otherwise been the case. Alan Turing is only one of hundreds of examples as to why the intelligence services should support Pride.

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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Happy Friday everyone.

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What do @carousel-learning.bsky.social think about this? Is it better to ask the same question in multiple different ways? Is there a benefit to having questions banks on the same topic where the questions are worded differently - retrieving the same knowledge but accessed in a different way?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The same visuals can be used in the encoding & retrieval stages of the learning process. This is known as the 'Encoding Specificity Principle' (Tulving & Thompson 1973!), a retrieval cue can provide a prompt to support initial retrieval success, especially if students have seen the cue before! 👏

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Interesting line about some schools changing to a more movement-friendly style of uniform.

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I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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And after we'd discussed the map of the London Underground, we discovered that none of my tutor group had ever heard of Concorde. They have now :-)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

TEACHERS AND SCHOOL STAFF: Please could you fill in this form for my daughter's Food Tech GCSE work? I will pay you in cookies! Please RT for reach! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Nice one :-) "Tips on Thursday's racing events edited for tomorrow's paper?" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Nigel Farage has been making some big populist promises. But behind the soundbites lies not only a financial black hole, but tells us a lot about the future he sees for Britain: Let’s take a closer look 🧵 1/23

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As we head into End of Year exams season, it's worth revisiting a helpful technique: annotating exam questions. There's a growing body of evidence supporting its effectiveness. Here are some ways I use annotating along with some recent evidence. /🧵

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NEW BLOG: Managing attention in classrooms is a social justice issue hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/m... #UKEd #Edusky #EduBlogUK

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Absolutely bang on, Bravo Mark! It’s why Chris and I produce TGT. 190 micro doses of Cultural Capital a year. With tier 3 vocab, careers and minority representation too for good measure. All for free. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

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