I wasn’t always dyslexic
From Cathy N Davidson’s book, Now You See It I wasn’t always dyslexic. I’m old enough that “learning disabilities” didn’t exist as a category when i was a kid. Back then, there wasn’t any particular diagnosis for my unusual way of seeing the world. I was already a twenty-seven-year-old professor...
Neat Exercise Books Are For Wimps (& The Bronte Sisters)
There’s an interesting slideshow of 14 moments of literary genius over at The Huffington Post. [thanks Poetry Foundation]. Snapshots of the manuscripts of Shakespeare, Dickens, Woolf, Chaucer and the like are on show. There’s something rather magical about seeing drafts of classics I think. On a more teacherly note, though,...
Left Brain, Right Brain, Whole Brain.
Can’t recommend The Master and His Emissary highly enough. It’s grrrreat (though at over £80 on Amazon you may want to go for the Kindle edition which is a tenth of the price). As seems increasingly common, the RSA have done a wonderful animation of it here: David Brooks has touched on the same areas […]
Marsalis, Students and the work-talent gap
Thanks Cristina and Gary Branford Marsalis’ take on students today
Eric Stanley
Big smile. (Thanks @brainpicker and especially @estan247) Video Eric Stanley – Eminem Ft. Rihanna Love The Way You Lie (Violen Cover).mp4
10 Year Old Graphing Avengers’ interestingness
Love this (via Explore). Theodore has, under his own steam, graphed out how interesting he thinks the various Avengers are at different episodes. Sense there’s a mini maths project in there somewhere. Thanks Theodore!
The Wisdom of Scottish Weddings
It’s great having friends you admire. And one of the many things I admire about my mate Matthew is that he always wants to test things out for himself. Here’s an excerpt from a recent mail: “at my cousin Al’s wedding on Saturday, one of the guests organized a sweepstake – guess the combined length […]
Digby Court – Please Help
This was forwarded to me by a friend of Kate’s. I’ve signed up and if you could spare a moment to read the following, I hope you might too. Hello lovely friends I write to ask for your support for a cause that is very close to the Parkinson family’s heart. This email is a […]
I teach in Grange Hill
via the indispensable Mr DuPlessis this video shows: a) a large slice of my childhood b) the same school I now teach in (the playground hasn’t changed)
Oxford, Chainsaws and Trampolines
I found out on Saturday that a friend of my mother’s is in hospital at the moment with numerous cracked ribs and a punctured lung. How she got there is, somehow, wonderfully “Oxford”. Her husband has been very ill and is now in a wheelchair. He felt that a tree needed pruning in their back […]