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The McNamara Fallacy of Education | Some Quick Thoughts
Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, was infamous for his obsession with numbers. He believed that if you could quantify something – if you could track it, measure it, put it on a neat spreadsheet – you could control it. The war became a numbers game. Body counts went up, Read more
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Book Review | Jonathon Dallimore’s Teaching History: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers
Jonathon Dallimore’s Teaching History: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers is a book that many history educators, including myself, are currently engaging with. If you have been on that journey, I’m sure that you can see the value in this text. I’d highly recommend this book. For teacher-educators, it would make an excellent set Read more
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This Online Reader’s Digest: February 17 – 21, 2025
The Flight School: Reimagining the Path to Adulthood (Abby Falik); Is Micromanaging Classes a Recipe for School Success? (Troy Closson and J. David Goodman); Rethinking civics education starts with inviting teens to co-create (Tyler Samstag and Fernande Raine) The Flight School: Reimagining the Path to Adulthood | Getting Smart – Abby Falik One of the Read more
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The study of history must be future-oriented.
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 5 | February 21, 2025 Teaching history should never be about memorising the past—it should be about making sense of it, questioning it, and recognising its unfinished work. This belief underpins my approach to history pedagogy, where history is not just something to be studied but something to be acted Read more
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An AI Pathway Into A Creative Arts Classroom…? | Some Quick Thoughts
The creative arts hold a special place in society. They offer something beyond the everyday to humanity. They rightly demand, and deserve, a special respect and careful treatment when we discuss AI in education. Within schools, creative arts departments offer to students’ exposure to disciplines which prioritise personal expressions of emotion and diversity. They deeply Read more
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In-flipping learning to tackle historical complexity
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 4 | February 16, 2025 The season of ‘deep green leaves’ has arrived. We’ve moved beyond promoting the ‘green shoots of learning’ (See This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 1 | January 24, 2025 – Disrupted History) through in-flipped learning and into a space where students are tackling historical complexity, using Read more
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