ClaudeVersations - IXInterest and Energy One of the simplest ways to detect what someone is interested in for its own sake is to see what energises them. If...
Education's Bitter Pill - IVThat education is among the last things to change when our economic, social, political and existential circumstances change might lead us...
Education's Bitter Pill - IIIIn an age of artificial intelligence it matters more than ever that we get education right . But education arises from a...
Education's Bitter Pill - IIIn the first of these posts we explored the way education has tended to default to understanding itself in terms of content-delivery,...
Education's Bitter Pill - IIn a very short piece written in 2019 called " The Bitter Lesson ", Rich Sutton of the University of Texas at Austin made the observation...
On Process and ProductAs our tolerance of and interest in subtle, nuanced argument diminishes under the withering blast of sound-bites and social media, so we...
ClaudeVersations - VIIIThis is a rather silly question, but it evokes some interesting answers from Claude 3 Opus. And we shouldn't forget that Diderot was...
ClaudeVersations - VIISome very disturbing statistics have been published today about persistent absence from school. If I heard correctly, absenteeism among...
ClaudeVersations - VIA new paradigm for education means a new paradigm for the world because [almost] everything we do is coloured by our educational and...
ClaudeVersations - VI have had the privilege of being taught by several teachers who deserved their place in the pantheon of educational gods. What they all...