All the running you can do
Alice looked round her in great surprise. “Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!” “Of course it is,” said the Queen, “what would you have it?” “Well,...
View ArticleThe Great Moving On Show
“These do not ‘emerge’: they have to be constructed. Political and ideological work is required to disarticulate old formations, and to rework their elements into new configurations.” Stuart Hall, The...
View ArticleWhat I learned when I talked to school leaders about AI
Sensemaking and absorptive capacity describe what happens when school leaders meet LLMs. Scenario planning gives them somewhere to take it. For the final part of my MBA, I completed a consultancy...
View ArticleWhat Do We Do Next?
In my previous post, I argued that ‘curriculum’ is a floating signifier whose meaning has been temporarily fixed through the ‘knowledge turn’ in English education and that LLMs are circumventing the...
View ArticleAgency Is What Societies Make of It
Agency isn’t just a mindset. It’s shaped by systems, institutions, and power. Ignoring this is a recipe for ineffectiveness. The recent Forbes article Why Agency is the New Literacy suggests that...
View ArticleAn Unfinished Conversation: Education, Democracy, and the Vote at 16
Nick Gallop, current Head of Brighton College Bangkok and Editor of Politics Review, recently published a piece arguing against lowering the voting age to 16, citing inadequate civic education. Drawing...
View ArticleThe Hidden Populism of AI in Education
“Radical changes are occurring in what democratic societies teach the young, and these changes have not been well thought through. Thirsty for national profit, nations, and their systems of education,...
View ArticleHalf-education by design
Excessive cognitive offloading interrupts necessary internalisation, leaving us with superficial schemata—weak mental frameworks that can’t adequately support critical thinking or creative...
View ArticleFrom perceived mandates to strategic choices. A few thoughts on the UK...
It has been fascinating to observe responses to the recent UK government guidance on AI in education. The reactions showcase how institutional dynamics and existing pressures can transform guidance...
View ArticleThe Castle and the Gate: A Critical Response to Conrad Hughes’s Changing...
If we are living in the age of polycrisis, possible solutions need to be more than singular responses. Conrad Hughes’s Changing Assessment arrives as both a necessary intervention and a frustratingly...
View ArticleWhat Jazz and Crisis Situations Can Teach Us About School Leadership
I love jazz music and it has marked significant milestones in my life. I remember Miles Davis and Chet Baker keeping me calm during school exams when I hadn’t done enough work. Gregory Porter provided...
View ArticleAlasdair MacIntyre’s Alternative to Educational KPIs: What Books Do Your...
This week, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre passed away. I came across his work as an undergrad student, but it wasn’t until much later, after a spirited discussion in which his thought was wielded...
View ArticleMaps and terrain
The fields near my house in the UK are pretty special to me, which is strange having grown up in a city. I’ve walked them numerous times, with a variety of purposes and during COVID, when outdoor...
View ArticleEducation at a conjuncture
You may have read James Walsh’s essay, ‘Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College’ in the New York Magazine and been taken aback by the examples where students freely admit that they have used AI...
View ArticleThe problems of fixed teaching models in changing times
If we are living in an age of educational polycrisis, marked by overlapping challenges such as mental health struggles, technological disruption, inequality, climate anxiety, and political...
View ArticleYear 9 on a Wet Friday: The Real Test for AI in Education
The embodied dimensions of education that we neglect at our own peril You may have seen a number of articles that state that Bill Gates said that AI will replace teachers. I was a little shocked,...
View ArticleInformation, Knowledge and Wisdom
This week has been punctuated by discussions about the impact of AI in normal classroom practice and has once again raised the the question: in a world where AI can instantly write essays and solve...
View ArticleAI and the ‘cheapening’ of Education?
Exploring the impact of AI on schools has led me to Raj Patel and Jason Moore’s provocative ‘A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things’. Their book examines how capitalism advances by making nature,...
View ArticleEmbodied intelligence
Earlier this week, I found myself reading Jeanette Winterson’s Guardian article about OpenAI’s creative writing model and the metafictional piece it produced. Touching upon notions of grief, human...
View ArticlePower and Justice – Rachel Carson and the end of birdsong
This is the thrid part of the ‘Power and Justice’ component of the co-curricular activity for students from Y9-Y13. This week we focus on Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring, specifically chapter...
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