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Download article as a PDF This is the time of year when motivation slumps, energy evaporates and your get up and go has got up and gone. With about 10 weeks to go till the end of the year (for senior students) this is the time when the largest gains or losses will be [...]
Download article as a PDF Cognitive Load -> Learning Ease -> Cognitive Velocity When we expand our knowledge from reducing cognitive load towards enhancing learning ease and engagement, and ultimately to increasing cognitive velocity, teaching becomes creative, exciting and impactful. We gradually coach our learners to shift from beginners to competence, and then, towards [...]
Download article as a PDF For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, teachers were caught in a paradox. They entered the profession to inspire and educate their students, yet much of their time was consumed by the administrative burden of assessment—marking, grading, and data entry. By 2040, that contradiction had been resolved. [...]
Download article as a PDF For most of the 20th and early 21st centuries, education was built on intuition and tradition. But by 2040, data finally lived up to its promise—not as a collection of numbers, but as a tool to convert information into real knowledge. Automating this process released teachers from the administrative [...]
Download article as a PDF Checking in again from 2040. When technology finally learned to talk to itself, the result wasn’t just incremental change—it was a fundamental shift. The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) didn’t just mean more connected devices; it meant systems that worked together in ways we hadn’t anticipated. Across [...]
Download article as a PDF Two recent releases have prompted this article: The Netflix series Adolescence and the 2025 Reith Lectures from the BBC on Violence. Both are highly recommended. In the Reith Lectures, forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Gwen Ashead, outlines seven factors that give rise to the violent mindset. While there is no one [...]
Download article as a PDF Teaching and engaging boys is a mix of being an ace motivational coach with being an overly active events manager while being big-hearted while having the stern eye of a store detective. In short, not complicated at all! Having a brother is like having a best friend who occasionally wants [...]
Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040. The past two decades have rewritten the script of education. The world you know—your policies, institutions, even your assumptions about learning—has been overtaken by a future that demanded we think beyond the present. We had a choice: resist change and fall behind or embrace transformation with [...]
Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040. The world’s accelerating rate of change has reshaped everything—including education. In the early days, we struggled to keep up. The enthusiasm of teachers, while admirable, risked burning them out as they tried to stay ahead of each new wave of innovation. No one wanted a return [...]
Download article as a PDF Greetings from 2040! You probably won’t recognise how schools function these days. By the end of 2024 we realised we had to redesign schools to meet the needs of a new generation of young people. The warning signs for us by 2024 included 20% of students not completing schooling, [...]
