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My daughter Elya Warwick is fundraising for my son Alex and Brainstrust. Look at their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. He is simply everything to our family. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/alex-warw…

@teacherhead Thank you Tom. X

Immensely powerful piece. Important to raise awareness.. the dismissal by successive doctors is heart breaking but good to know there’s hope for Alex. Please consider making a donation. Sending love to Alex, Ian and Indira. Xx

My son Alex last week talking to his old school, Archer Academy, about routes into Medicine. Given what he is currently dealing with, it took serious courage and commitment. Very proud Dad. #supportersList" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">justgiving.com/team/walkforal…

@teacherhead Really sorry to hear that Tom. Great pictures….he looks like he was a really interesting man.

Sad news - my lovely stepdad Larry died yesterday - peacefully at the age of 94. A huge part of our lives for 40 years. A professor of Medieval Latin, he published his last book - on a 14th C poem - just two years ago. He’s been a much loved Grandpa - full of stories, poems and songs. We’re all going to miss him enormously. Love you Laz 🙏❤️

@Emma_Turner75 I’ve had more dozens of presentations of mine, since 2004 being used almost verbatim by ‘colleagues’ with no acknowledgement whatsoever. Sometimes I just happen to be in the audience, often told to me by friends. Have to accept that ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.’

So frustrating. I sat through a webinar recently where 80% of the slides were remakes of mine being passed off as original work-even had the same little jokes on some! Same content, same order, same in many ways except where I’d used referencing & credits for quotes - they didn’t

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@teacherhead Well done Tom. Listened to a few tracks now. Really enjoyed them all…

Album complete. Coming soon to Spotify Late Winter Sun Please do listen .. it’s a year in the making on.soundcloud.com/2jsXr1eicf43lI…

@teacherhead @olicav @MattTeachCoach Is your river behaving itself?

Mon livre est arrivé! WalkThrus #5!! So excited for people to read it. As ever a joy to collaborate with @olicav and @MattTeachCoach. Out soon! amazon.co.uk/Coaching-WalkT…

@tombennett71 Had you been reading too much ‘stream of consciousness’ Ulysses on the plane? Cos that Joyce fella can send you mad…

You’ll never guess what I did last night. Unless your guess is ‘walked out of the airport, got in a taxi WITHOUT MY SUITCASE which I only realise after a 20 min drive to the hotel, so then had to get the taxi back to the airport, which was shutting 15 minutes later, and the driver called his mate on security to check if it was there but it wasn’t on the carousel anymore so I called the airport team who were locking up and they said to meet them there in 10 minutes and then Qantas had gone home so she unlocked their office and found it and I got to my room at midnight,’ in which case your guess would be right and that’s amazing.

Brilliant piece by @alex_crossman on why educators need a fourth 'robot law' to tame the AI 'dæmon' that promotes the safe and familiar, at the expense of the new and challenging, reinforcing our biases and preconceptions. open.substack.com/pub/powerfulkn…

@DavidDidau You had me hooked with Sturm und Drang in the second sentence!

This is, I think, the best thing I've written: How to read seriously It's a deliberately long read (at over 6.500 words it'll take you about half an hour) Link to follow...

An excellent article by Carl. I’m in complete agreement with every word of this… Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us open.substack.com/pub/carlhendri…

@bluebellchoppy Ladies who launch

@teacherhead Very cool rode on mower though…by the look of it, to drive when you’re drunk too. That could be why you’ll need to work on repairing the “thruwalls…”?

Apologies . I went there. Weirdly unspecified stuff thrown in.

@DavidDidau @stoneman_claire Danger inherent in many books on education - they try to give a cool name to a tool without specifying what it’s actually there to achieve. DD ‘we should encourage teachers to think about the problem they’re trying to solve as well as the tool they’re going to use to solve it.’

@stoneman_claire An attempt to clarify: daviddidau.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-u…

This is a useful and interesting thread. Not sure I agree with all of it - still thinking about whether I do - but it certainly has made me think, and that’s a good thing

@DavidDidau An excellent piece from David. About clarity of terms, but the key statement is this, ‘we should encourage teachers to think about the problem they’re trying to solve as well as the tool they’re going to use to solve it.’ Lethal mutation happens when these two things separate.

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Another excellent post from David. And one I’m in complete agreement with. It’s particularly good on rigorous hinge questioning to expose ignorance. ‘It's always better to know’ learningspy.co.uk/featured/its-a… via @DavidDidau

@teacherhead What an absolute treat...!

@GiftedLondon Seems to be . I’m going to read it to find out! Apparently the one publisher it went to rejected it because ‘nothing much happens’! 😂

So.. just got hold of a novel my dad wrote (typed!) in the 70s. Was never published.. but it’s a thing of beauty. Now to read it … 🔥