Thinking about challenge: Part 1, Benjamin Bloom

First of three parts. Summary: [1] Benjamin Bloom and his taxonomy team were more modern than most people realise. [2] But there is little help in being domain specific. [3] Part 2 will introduce a domain specific structure for physics Part 3 will be an attempt to use this structure. Before you start reading, how…

Tes Education Resources: An Open Expression of Concern

This post has been agreed by several teachers and is shared across several blog sites.   In the last couple of years, we have openly expressed concern at the approaches taken by Tes Education Resources to plagiarism and copyright violation, theft of resources, and the selling of resources that violate copyright. This is not a…

Validity of Formative Assessment

This is part 4 in the AFL in Science symposium. A lot of my thoughts should be taken as tentative, provisional, claims and should always be treated with healthy skepticism. @sputniksteve has written elsewhere about self-writing and I can't claim to summarise the whole idea here but I think people should see this blog as my…