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5 reasons to try Get It Right: Boost Your Vocabulary

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Oxford English Team

Each workbook in the Get It Right: Boost Your Vocabulary series offers targeted support for exanding students’ vocabulary and addressing the word gap by exploring ambitious words in context and unpicking layers of meaning, resulting in more confident readers and articulate writers. Here are five reasons why your school should try the Get It Right: […]

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Locking in lockdown – what have we learnt?

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021Oxford English Team

The day to day existence of a teacher has changed beyond recognition this year as we moved from classroom to remote learning; from bubble to zone; back to remote learning and now back to the classroom once more! Phewf! Given the many, many ways we have adapted as a profession; isn’t it time to take […]

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Connecting in a contactless classroom

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021Oxford English Team

In my previous blog ‘ Four Stages of Reimagining the Classroom’ , I presented the fictional Hammerhill Academy’s English Department and their journey to setting up a virtual learning provision. Since then it would be fair to say that Hammerhill – like all real schools across the U.K – would have gone through a rapidly transformational voyage of virtual learning discovery. The most […]

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Daisy Christodoulou on remote learning

March 16, 2020March 20, 2020Oxford Education
Daisy Christodoulou Teachers vs Tech

Back in 2008, the business professor Clayton Christensen predicted that by 2019, half of all US high school classes would be taken online. It’s now 2020 and this prediction has not come true, in the US or any other country. Why is this? Is it fundamentally impossible to get remote learning to work as well as […]

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Daisy Christodoulou on Teachers vs Tech 3/3

March 6, 2020March 20, 2020Oxford Education 1 Comment
Daisy Christodoulou Teachers vs Tech

What skills will be needed in the economy of the future? Suppose a friend came to you and told you they wanted to visit Siberia for the whole of next February. They want to prepare for their visit, and to do so they need a precise weather forecast. They want to know exactly what temperature […]

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Daisy Christodoulou on Teachers vs Tech 1/3

February 28, 2020March 16, 2020Oxford Education
Daisy Christodoulou Teachers vs Tech

Daisy Christodoulou talks about some of the important questions and popular ed tech ideas she explores in her new book, Teachers vs Tech? The case for an ed tech revolution. As long ago as 1913, people were predicting that technology was going to transform education. “Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools. Scholars […]

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Daisy Christodoulou on Teachers vs Tech 2/3

February 28, 2020March 20, 2020Oxford Education
Daisy Christodoulou Teachers vs Tech

Daisy Christodoulou’s new book, Teachers vs Tech? is all about how we can use technology to improve learning. In this blog post she considers the benefit of spaced repetition algorithms in helping students retain knowledge. Recently, I started flicking through a book I’d read about ten years ago, Juliet Gardiner’s The Thirties: An Intimate History. […]

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Understanding challenge activities

January 11, 2018November 20, 2018Oxford Science Team
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Education is fast moving, with new ideas, recycled ideas, and changes in the political landscape which feed into curriculum change and inevitable examination changes.  A rising hot topic is ‘stretch and challenge’, but what exactly is it? As part of the Teaching and Learning group in my school we have been exploring ‘Stretch and Challenge’ […]

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