TLAB Notes
Took a while to get there, what with train cancellations, but it was worth it. Lots to think about, though various themes/books seemed to be being hammered home. Nuthall’s Hidden Lives of Learners and Berger’s Ethic of Excellence were heavily plugged. Notes from what I saw: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Institute of Cognitive...
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,...