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Another decision that will warp teaching for the worse. Leaders & teachers: if you’re aiming for excellence, caution against allowing pupils to use equation sheets until the very end. Having a high degree of fluency has huge benefits. Caveat: teaching must be strong!

Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: The Government is officially dropping the requirement for GCSE students to memorise equations for maths, physics and science exams [@JackElsom]

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James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·2 Mar

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

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Amanda Spielman@amanda_spielman·1 Mar

Great analogy

Justin Skycak@justinskycak

Calculators are for those who have already mastered the calculation. Using tools to bypass understanding is just borrowing intelligence at a high interest rate.

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Camus@newstart_2024·2 Mar

Gabor Maté just issued a stark warning to every new parent: “If I was a new parent today, I would not let my kids near social media for many, many years. I would not let them see a screen — except maybe in my presence talking to grandparents on Zoom.” He goes further: No cell phones in their hands. No screen games. No screens at all if possible. His reasoning is brutal and evidence-based: These devices are designed to be addictive. Brain scans of 3–4-year-olds with heavy screen exposure show visible damage — structural changes that impair development. And the silent killer? Parents staring at their own phones — sending the clearest message: “This device is more important than you.” Maté’s bottom line: Protect their developing brains at all costs. The cost of convenience is too high. New (or expecting) parents: Are you drawing a hard line on screens for your kids — or is it already slipping?

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Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore·1 Mar

World’s cities appear one-by-one over 6,000 years

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Pritesh Raichura@Mr_Raichura·28 Şub

Why am I against screen-based assessments? This change will warp teaching practice for the worse. I guarantee it. More & more lesson time will be devoted to putting classes in front of screens. School leaders will feel pressure to prepare pupils which 1/

Pritesh Raichura@Mr_Raichura

I urge everyone to fill this in. Screen-based assessments will be a disaster for England’s schools. The entire proposal is absurd & a complete waste of taxpayer money. 30% of students fail Eng / Maths: invest in this instead. 😡 ofqual.citizenspace.com/public/regulat…

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Niyak Ghorbani (نیاک)@GhorbaniiNiyak·1 Mar

Persian and Jew celebrating together in London

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Guido Fawkes@GuidoFawkes·28 Şub

REUTERS reports the Ayatollah is confirmed dead.

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le.hl@0xleegenz·27 Şub

At birth, success is being alive At age 3, success is not pooping your pants At age 10, success is having friends At age 16, success is having a driver's license At age 20, success is having sex At age 30, success is having money. At age 40, success is having money At age 55, success is having sex At age 70, success is having a driver's license At age 75, success is having friends At age 80, success is not pooping your pants At age 90, success is being alive We all start somewhere and finish where we start, time is the real success so use it wisely

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Lord (David) Alton@DavidAltonHL·28 Şub

In 1965, Winston Churchill’s coffin was brought to Westminster Hall, where for 3 days his coffin rested on a catafalque surrounded by candles. As a schoolboy I queued for several hours, with hundreds of thousands of others as we paid our respects. It was the first time I went to Parliament. I remember being struck that, regardless of political allegiances, a nation was united in honouring the man who led Britain to victory over the Nazis. By contrast, yesterday’s disgraceful vandalising of Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square demonstrates a woeful lack of respect. It also displays an extraordinary ignorance of how easily our liberties - the right to protest, to vote, to think for ourselves - would have been replaced by Hitler’s dictatorship if Churchill hadn’t succeeded in preserving our freedoms and democracy.

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Pritesh Raichura@Mr_Raichura·28 Şub

I urge everyone to fill this in. Screen-based assessments will be a disaster for England’s schools. The entire proposal is absurd & a complete waste of taxpayer money. 30% of students fail Eng / Maths: invest in this instead. 😡 ofqual.citizenspace.com/public/regulat…

Hugh Grant@HackedOffHugh

Final chance to write to the consultation to try and stop the government taking school exams online. This is the address to write to. consultations @ofqual.gov.uk And here’s what I wrote.

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Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo·27 Şub

MrBeast trains new employees at his company with a 36-page knowledge-rich PDF and a quiz at the end. Oh, and he asks them to read the PDF twice, because they won't retain everything the first time. Watch what people do, not what they say.

Jack@Jackkk

MrBeast explains why the education system is completely broken “Why are students today being taught the same way their parents were? Look at how much everything else has advanced. When I was in school the teacher would just stand there, read out of a book and write on a whiteboard” "Now look at Mark Rober’s videos. You can learn complex topics in 20 minutes in a way that’s engaging, fun and you retain it. Just because our parents were taught one way doesn’t mean we need to keep teaching that same way. It makes no sense to me, I think education should be reformed dramatically” “Students spend so much time in school. If we had real courses made through videos, made learning more hands on and optimised everything with modern technology, kids could probably learn more in 5 hours than they currently do in 8 hours"

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Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·26 Şub

Sooner or later, the penny is going to drop. When Labour realises that it cannot physically remove the Chagossians who have returned to the archipelago – quite apart from the legal obstacles, it will be politically impossible for a second Labour government to drag them from their ancestral lands – it will see that there is only one alternative. If it wants to secure British sovereignty over the islands, and so guarantee the base, it will ditch any notion of evacuating the population, turn 180 degrees and facilitate the resettlement of any Chagossians who want to return. It won’t be cheap. Putting in the infrastructure – electricity generation, a clinic, a primary school, a regular link to the Maldives – would, according to a KPMG report, cost a minimum of £800 million. Still, that is a tiny fraction of the £34 billion that Labour was planning to give to Mauritius. Peopling the outer atolls is both morally right and politically sensible. The way to stave off hostile rulings from Third Worldist judges is to uphold the right to self-determination of an inhabited territory.

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Laura Trott MP@LauraTrottMP·27 Şub

Moving exams online is the wrong thing to do. That’s why l tabled amendments to the Schools Bill to stop a shift to screen based testing. We must stop pushing young children onto devices & ensure tech in education is driven by evidence. Everyone who care about this should respond to the consultation, the link is here: ofqual.citizenspace.com/public/regulat…

Hugh Grant@HackedOffHugh

Final chance to write to the consultation to try and stop the government taking school exams online. This is the address to write to. consultations @ofqual.gov.uk And here’s what I wrote.

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Hugh Grant@HackedOffHugh·27 Şub

Final chance to write to the consultation to try and stop the government taking school exams online. This is the address to write to. consultations@ofqual.gov.uk And here’s what I wrote.

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Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt·26 Şub

In The Anxious Generation, I underestimated the harm from the phone-based childhood because I focused on the mental health outcomes, which is where we had the best data while I was writing the book. I now believe that the widespread diminishment of the human capacity to pay attention is an even larger harm, affecting the majority of children, and even many adults. Diminished focus, executive function, and book-reading means diminished life chances.

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Knowledge Hub@Knowledge_Ed·26 Şub

Thinking of Bootcamp for your school? Take a look at this 2 half day workshop @stmartin1963 and @clivewright1969 that will showcase the why, what and how of Bootcamp during year 7 transition and reboot for all other years For more information email us at: info@knowledgehub.org.uk

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Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71·25 Şub

Thank god, here come the social media influencers to explain to us how we’re doing it all wrong.

Jack@Jackkk

MrBeast explains why the education system is completely broken “Why are students today being taught the same way their parents were? Look at how much everything else has advanced. When I was in school the teacher would just stand there, read out of a book and write on a whiteboard” "Now look at Mark Rober’s videos. You can learn complex topics in 20 minutes in a way that’s engaging, fun and you retain it. Just because our parents were taught one way doesn’t mean we need to keep teaching that same way. It makes no sense to me, I think education should be reformed dramatically” “Students spend so much time in school. If we had real courses made through videos, made learning more hands on and optimised everything with modern technology, kids could probably learn more in 5 hours than they currently do in 8 hours"

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Adam Boxer@adamboxer1·25 Şub

"You can learn complex topics in 20 minutes" No you can't bro

Jack@Jackkk

MrBeast explains why the education system is completely broken “Why are students today being taught the same way their parents were? Look at how much everything else has advanced. When I was in school the teacher would just stand there, read out of a book and write on a whiteboard” "Now look at Mark Rober’s videos. You can learn complex topics in 20 minutes in a way that’s engaging, fun and you retain it. Just because our parents were taught one way doesn’t mean we need to keep teaching that same way. It makes no sense to me, I think education should be reformed dramatically” “Students spend so much time in school. If we had real courses made through videos, made learning more hands on and optimised everything with modern technology, kids could probably learn more in 5 hours than they currently do in 8 hours"

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Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·26 Şub

Every measure of a good, decent life in Canada is plummeting. But euthanasia is booming. This isn't compassion. This is darkness. This is a society that's given up. Something is terribly, unforgivably wrong with a country that can't house its people or grow its economy but excels at helping them die.

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