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After a fanfare of message alerts and email notifications my copy of Literacies in the Platform Society arrived today. It's a collectio...

Can inspired teaching be reduced to method or does it always require inspired teachers? The most influential educational models today duck t...

My new book Why Writing Still Matters was published by Cambridge University Press last week. I haven't actually seen a copy yet - distr...

I've come to think of all work as work in progress. A busy couple of months have seen me mulling over what things in the literacy world ...

On Monday children in England returned to their classrooms for the first time since the 2021 lockdown was introduced. I knew that because I ...

  Apparently school in lockdown has arbitrary rules just like school in real life. I have it on good authority that one such rule is that yo...

I really enjoyed the Doing Data Differently project because it was a move out of my comfort zone and into the realms of educational data - a...

I never met Gordon Wells in person, but as a long-standing admirer of his scholarship I was deeply moved to read about his tragic death. It ...

Reading through the proofs of our new book Undoing the Digita l is an interesting experience that throws up a whole range of reactions and f...

It is hard to think of what literacy studies would be like without the concept of multimodality - and for this we have Gunther Kress to th...

A good documentary should dig deep into a topic of interest or concern and judged against this the film ' H is for Harry ' is good...

1969 – it was the year of the Stonewall Riots, of Woodstock, and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. It was also the year in which The Ver...

I used to be a teacher, a primary school teacher, but unlike some of my colleagues I don't really think of myself in that way any long...

Reading that 8 million horses died in the First World War or that 200,000 were slaughtered with the collapse of the equine market after th...

Over a number of years and across a variety of projects Cathy Burnett and I have been working with groups of teachers to develop authentic...

Sometime in the mid '60s my father discovered drip-dry shirts. They were one of the many products of the modern world; a world in which ...

Trying to think differently about literacy, emergence and potentiality (amongst other things) has led to some experimentation with the con...

This new volume will be published in the summer and is the result of a collaboration with Alyson Simpson and Maureen Walsh . It's been...

The cost of the latest initiative - to make all schools into academies - is likely to be £1.3 billion . That's a significant outla...

If anyone was in any doubt that written language is changing, or that children are active members of writing communities they need look no...