Questioning and Participation whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/hot-...

What… uhhh… what country does he think The Hagia Sophia is located in?

How exam tasks with a thought through rationale around the coherent body of language being taught could have looked. Versus what we got: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Taking this year's Windmill Exhibition down tomorrow. It's been a good one. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/03/deep...

When you look back, it's shocking.

Real change of emphasis with the new GCSE this year. From lots of practising speaking. To lots of making clauses and verbs.

In this time of "I don't like social media because it is boring" counting as "good development", it's shocking to look back at what we used to teach only a couple of years ago: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-ga...

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

This is the way.

AI in schools is like lead paint in schools www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Really interesting (& sad) video on one of the most sampled grooves ever. Clyde Stubblefield made $50 for it. Only Melisa Etheridge ever thanked him & Prince paid Clyde's late in life medical bills out of respect

Magazine Saisons • Nouvelle édition • 100 œuvres qui racontent le travail 👉 bit.ly/4mKmGmL • Cette édition revient sur l'opération #100œuvresTravail avec une galerie des œuvres à découvrir. En complément, Clémence Raynaud, conservatrice générale Architecture, aborde l'histoire du logement social.

Form Friday Quiz: What country are the cities of Salzburg and Vienna in? Answer: Nazi Germany Should I have accepted that?

Getting to the interesting end of an interesting season in the MFL FPL league. Some familiar names I don't see elsewhere since the flight from twitter:

This used to drive me nuts. My daughter’s school also had a sexist policy for shoes. Only boys were allowed trainer style “active” black shoes. Styles allowed cramped her toes, weren’t suitable for rainy days - we have those in Yorkshire. I can rant for hours on this theme.

This girl is a hero! #PocketsForAll www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC going on and on about the Falklands thing. Don't they know to just ignore nonsense leaked in possible discussion documents. They constantly scrape barrels.

Wales has faced threats before – but critics warn Reform UK could rival Henry VIII in undermining its language and identity | Niklas George

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Today marks 52 years of Freedom & Democracy in Portugal, after the 25th of April revolution which ended the dictatorship the country had been under! Not one shot fired. Soldiers carried a carnation at the end of their rifles. Viva Portugal! 🇵🇹 ❤️

House martins!

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

DSIT corrects its AI greenhouse gas forecast (which was based in part on work by McKinsey): previous estimate was 0.05% of emissions for period up to 2025, but now it's between 0.9 and 3.5% of carbon emissions in that period. H2O estimates have also risen. With sharing link for 3 readers.

Seven Recommended Films From the Dominican Republic hyperallergic.com/seven-iconic...

Again, exam boards are having to recruit ECTs to mark English GCSE papers as there aren't enough examiners (overriding original reqs for markers: a few years experience). This doesn't bode well. I think a marker needs to have taken a class through the course at least once. Here we go again.

I was wondering how she was doing... www.lavozdemichoacan.com.mx/mexico/derec...

He's right. But he's not on the side of people who do actual work. Gifting isn't working.

What can we rescue from the Ofsted "how to structure the languages curriculum" guidance? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/03/lang...

Connections Puzzle #1049 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Stripes

Enjoy reading @didau.bsky.social to watch his thinking. Don't agree with him on everything. But he's a generous sharer of how his ideas are shaped.

Lacking this meta-model, the UK education scene has abstracted away the student's mind, all that's left is a memory vessel as CLT and DI say nothing about sense-making or meaning-making. christianmooreanderson.com/evidence-bas...

Just got round to reading this by @josepicardo.bsky.social Real wisdom. Real practical thought. Important: www.azimuth.org.uk/why-schools-...

Any teacher knows this from just one day in the classroom.

GATESHEAD REFORM UK CANDIDATE LINDA MCFARLANE CALLS FOR POLITICIANS TO BE SHOT, ASYLUM SEEKERS TO BE DROWNED AND A RETURN TO “WHITE BRITAIN” hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/23/g...

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

In US schools, the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) is barely covered. More time is spent on the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). But, in Mexican textbooks, it's covered in depth, esp. the loss of Texas, California, New México, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah to the U.S. Many were killed for land.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

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This chart might look political, but it’s really about data science. The UK can rank great or poorly depending on the KPIs you choose. Our choice of data decides how we view reality.

No, really? Say it ain't so. Cheatgpt is this so? No I mean this article, not the naked cucumber planting story. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I’m delighted to have a piece in this issue, on talk in the new National Curriculum.

BBC need to stop using these absurd AI images

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Hopefully not one of *his* casinos...

Just got round to reading this by @josepicardo.bsky.social Real wisdom. Real practical thought. Important: www.azimuth.org.uk/why-schools-...