It’s time to change things up. And as the season changes, so do our priorities and intentions. It’s that start of a new academic year following the summer break that seems ingrained in us to begin new things or reinvigorate a lagging project. The kids are back to school, and so are you in some…
They are not you and you are not them. They don’t know what you know. You don’t see what they see. We all have a unique filter calibrated to just us, and us alone. It interprets and guides our thoughts, values, opinions and behaviours. And it’s not necessary, or even possible, to re-calibrate to be…
The recent Brian Cox Planets series has been a fascinating watch and really does help to put things into perspective. Living on this tiny speck of dust we call home. Even more so, other solar systems follow a consistent pattern – they are doing things their way. Then there’s ours – and we are doing…
I started blogging through Medium (Instagram for writers) in May 2019, migrating to a website that August and I have never looked back. Maintaining a 2-year streak of weekly blogs. It became a way for me to unpack ideas and challenge my thinking. Which then helps others to rethink ideas and how they might unpack…
“It’s not what you know that makes you smart, it’s the connections between what you know that makes you smart.” – Michael Bungay Stanier We’ve all done it. Read a book. Studied an article. Written an essay or posted on social media. And we took the shortcut. We hacked our way through. Reading to just get…
There have been some terrible consequences for UK students in the fallout of the lockdown from COVID. And if they haven’t had enough to deal with, an algorithm has significantly disadvantaged countless students as they progress to the next phase of their education. Now, I’m no fan of our current approach to education or the…
Learning is hard! You can provide the reins, the map and even the water… But, don’t always expect plenty of drinking to be going on. Learning is a very private experience that only the student has ultimate control over. Displaying a vast array of information for them to memorise for a test is not learning.…
Abbie Pierce 