Coding Matters

Coding allows students to develop an understanding of being able to use, and create with, digital technologies If you have been involved with the education sector for the last 12 months or more you would have heard the call to have all children learn coding. The publicity has stretched far and wide and coding education has even become a part of the political … Read more

MOOC coup

Can Massive Open Online Courses’ revolutionize higher education and challenge traditional campuses? Oozing from a primordial jelly in 2011, expanding and replicating across the globe… No, not the latest exotic flu, it’s MOOCs, those curious online courses proliferating so swiftly that 35 million students registered for them in 2015, more than double the number that … Read more

Mean Girls… and Boys

From humiliation to physical violence, school bullying is an epidemic that needs to stop I have been overwhelmed by the sweetness of kids I teach at school. One student, seeing me without an umbrella, ran backward through the rain to walk with me under his. Another classroom, after a lesson on the differences between Tet and Christmas, pitched … Read more