Cambridge people: please watch out for a dazed Brummie staggering, blinking, into the cycle lanes.

The main real critique of getting smartphones out of classrooms seems to be a kind of generalized aversion to the idea of enforcing any rules.

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Laura Lupin 'Democracy isn't working because it's not giving me what I personally want' is such terrifying narcissism

Looking forward to tomorrow’s researchED Cambridge #rEDCam24 What a line up :) Apologies, but also featuring me.

Not all heroes wear capes

Completely agree with this.

This maddens me. When schools casually demand that children access apps, tablets etc at home, they are tacitly encouraging online habits that are easy to establish and hard to break.

Schools: please think carefully before you normalise kids being online when they don’t have to…

Don't kill oracy by making it the Next Big Thing - blog post by me....
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*1/3* of 5-7 year olds have *unsupervised access* to social media. This is insane. Parents please take the phones off your children. It’s not a baby sitter. It’s a window into every horror humanity can imagine, and at best it’s a mindless attention hoover that teaches children to…

What's New? Our Conferences are Longer! researchED Canada starts on Friday Night May 3 with a Provocation and a Headliner Panel at Trinity College, University of Toronto. Our agent provocateur - Carl Hendrick and the Panel kicks-off with Daniel Willingham Great chance to meet & greet!

I believe this experiment is called ‘Scotland.’

This Brummie is EN ROUTE 🚂 #rEDCam24

Tom Bennett OBE Spoke to a primary deputy head recently who said social media was the biggest issue in reception.

*1/3* of 5-7 year olds have *unsupervised access* to social media. This is insane. Parents please take the phones off your children. It’s not a baby sitter. It’s a window into every horror humanity can imagine, and at best it’s a mindless attention hoover that teaches children to…

I'm not sure if there are many feelings so wonderful as having a class of (justifiably) Friday-frisky 6th-graders go from antsy & loud to focused & listening/reading along with the day's novel section.

Thank you, routines. Have a great Friday, Ed Cases.
Tom Bennett OBE Doug Lemov

Looking forward to researchED Cambridge tomorrow.
I’ll be talking about the lessons we’ve learned from implementing the research on reading.
It’s quite a ride.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s researchED Cambridge #rEDCam24 What a line up :) Apologies, but also featuring me.

Fantastic column in the The Spectator by Douglas Murray