This week's personal breakthrough. Get students to write questions about a piece of text they have read.

What a great question. I do wonder a lot about what students learn. Taking exams seem to be more important than actual understanding of what is being examined.

Are you suggesting the government doesn't invest in the technologies of the future?

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So we need to not use it? As long as we keep using it, they will push it.

Will you also advocate for boys in caring professions and girls in the trades too?

What's more important as a student? Being able to remember stuff or being able to do stuff?

My sadness emanates from the fact they should have had one hour of computing lessons each week for the lastv5 years and don't seem to have acquired even basic computing skills.

It's a sad state of affairs to discover around half of my lower 6th students don't know how to create folders or copy and paste files.

Just arrived. Blue sky reminds me of the internet in 2000 when no one really had anything interesting to say. All very jovial but a bit dull. Come on. Someone say someone worthy of a debate!