Category: Learning

10/04/2019

[University] teaching awards seemed to have been added like sticking plasters to organisations whose values lay elsewhere. Graham Gibbs, Item…

25/03/2019

Content matters! One in 10 people on the planet are unable to read or write. And many of those who…

13/02/2019

This is from an article in the THE. Catherine Heymans is a physicist at the University of Edinburgh, who works…

23/01/2019

News Feature: What are the limits of deep learning? | PNAS  In addition to its vulnerability to spoofing, for example,…

17/01/2019

Talking 22nd Century Skills with @realpbanksley - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week I noted that he seems to…

27/12/2018

Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, OOPSLA 1997 Of course, children can learn many things without special mentoring…

08/12/2018

Any real education is incapable of robust widely accepted psychometric assessment that will satisfy a professional regulator.

15/11/2018

There is one of those beautifully written pieces on Medium, written by the ex-editor of Nature, Philip Ball [link]. It…

11/11/2018

A few words from Melvyn Bragg about his radio programme ‘In our time’ He insisted that the programme should be…

25/10/2018

I do not have a coherent overview of many of the traditional professions, but I wonder if people will soon…