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The passenger sees the world from a particular point of view. Separate, like a spectator, a world unfolds through the frame of the window. T...

In the study of writing we often overlook the fact that the most commonly spoken language in the world is Chinese. Using characters - a form...

The public library was an important landmark in my childhood. It was in safe cycling distance, it was always warm, and it was the context fo...

If you'd told me that the novel I was about to read contained over 60 pages of Powerpoint slides using some of the standard insert graph...

It's been a while. Perhaps it seems as if I'm a blogger on a go-slow, but really it's just the sign of a changing relationship w...

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 ...

The Pinterest algorithm got to know me pretty quickly. I'm not sure if it knows when and where I was born but it must be narrowing it do...

One. Events pass through novelty and nowness to become history, obviously. I'm thinking of when doing things or going places one perhaps...

Narrative fiction has become an important site for exploring interiority and the complexities of self-reflection. The conscious separation o...

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...

  An Online Colloquium 12th-19th November 2020 What does data do in education? What does it become? Why does data visualisation matter? What...

Having a personal library could well become a thing of the past - and it's certainly a luxury, a rarefied form of consumerism and someth...

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 ...

  I took up drawing again about a year ago - I say again because I haven't really done any since my teens. Armed with a pocket-sized ske...

Continuing on the theme of books that provoke surprising connections when read together I want to recommend pairing Marilyn Strathern...

I was advised not to write about neurodiversity by an expert, a well-respected colleague that I've worked with for a number of years. ...

Covid-19 has impacted on so many things - too many to list. And as it has progressed a whole new vocabulary has sprung up in its wake. If ...

Online multimodal communication seems to thrive when it's easy to use and experiment with. It's one of the more attractive feature...