In my talk at Peers Conference earlier this year I closed with this quote from Brent Simmons: Micro.blog is not an alternative silo: instead, it’s what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network. I’ve been thinking more about Brent’s post since then, and so for ...

9) Fads and factionalism – no thanks. Even in my short (5 year) teaching career I have seen things come and go out of favour. Learning styles, mindfulness, multiple intelligences, growth mindsets, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Cheese (I’m pretty sure it was cheese), I’ve been taught them then been told they don’t even exist. There’s probably a grain of truth in most of these things: good lessons should stimulate many of the senses but let’s not turn every teaching point into a song made out of differently-textured smells differentiated 30 ways to accommodate each child’s ‘learning style’. Life’s too short.