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Teaching & Learning

13 March, 2026

Are you learning, or are you letting AI do the work for you?

My son is sixteen. He is sitting his GCSE examinations this summer, though everything that follows applies equally to anyone staring down the barrel of A levels. And, like most…

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Teaching & Learning

5 March, 2026

Student Engagement and EdTech: What Does the Evidence Actually Say?

Large-scale studies on the impact of EdTech are rare in education. Large-scale international studies rarer still. So when Engaged Teaching: Engaged Learning, an empirical study of teaching, learning and student…

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Teaching & Learning

14 February, 2026

Metacognition and AI in Education: Who Is Really Doing the Thinking?

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking at the #EducationInsights event organised by The Teaching Awards Trust at the very fancy Bloomsbury Ballroom in London. The event focused on…

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Teaching & Learning

21 January, 2026

Why Blaming Screens for Cognitive Decline Misses the Point

Recent testimony to the US Senate on “cognitive decline” and educational technology has reopened a familiar conversation: whether screens are eroding young people's capacity to think, and whether technology in…

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Teaching & Learning

28 October, 2025

From Dots to Thinking: How Knowledge Shapes Critical Thought

Leading a recent CPD session on retrieval practice, I found myself comparing learning to a dot-to-dot puzzle. With only a handful of dots, the picture is faint and open to…

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Teaching & Learning

27 October, 2025

Thinking Buddy: Can AI Can Help Us Think, Not Stop Us Thinking?

When new technologies arrive, we often meet them with caution. That instinct has served us well in education, fending off many (not all) of the educational fads and technological gimmicks…

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