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Concept Based Curriculum and Instruction (CBCI) – My Notes

Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom - by Erickson, Lanning & French 2017. I read this booking after ripping through some MYP material. Erickson, Lanning and French came up a lot in the text, so rather than take the IB's word, I...

Ultralearning – Scott Young – My Notes

Ultralearning – Scott Young – My Notes

Directness is the process of learning which involves you doing the thing that you want to learn. You need to practice - this then leads to skill development. There are 9 principles of ultralearning. Principal 1: Meta-learning: first draw a map. Before beginning an...

Turn the Ship Around! – David Marquet – My Notes

Turn the Ship Around! – David Marquet – My Notes

This is a book on leadership. By giving someone the opportunity to own a problem and their solution to it, they will consider themselves as vital to its success. As a leader, it is your mission to get your people to see their own worth and potential.  The old...

The Inevitable – Kevin Kelly – My Notes

The Inevitable – Kevin Kelly – My Notes

My favourite futurist...Kevin Kelly. Opening Quotes Our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilise them. Often people push back against new technology, as it brings something that's outside of our control. Technology is at the centre of every...

Skills We Will Need in 2030

Skills We Will Need in 2030

As I prepare for interviews at international schools, I reflect on my practice from an existential perspective. For example, a few weeks ago I was contemplating why does a Grade 5 student learn? I had a bunch of thoughts about this, but the one that mattered most was...

Teachers and Time

Teachers and Time

I just completed a mammoth dissertation for a master's program. The topic I chose was to explicate collaboration at an international school, including highlighting barriers to collaboration. And you know, the biggest barrier that I found in the literature review, and...

Bytes by the Bubbler

Bytes by the Bubbler

After some mindless scrolling of X, I came across the most memorable infographic that I have seen in a long time. It was absolutely not memorable for its amazing design, although it is quite funky. The graphic stuck in my mind purely through the seemingly effortless...

Google Analytics – My First Impressions

After two and a bit years, I have submitted my master's dissertation. I am finally free of the shackles of citations, synthesis and epistemology. But free to do what? Free to watch YouTube shorts? Free to comment on the international teachers' subreddit? Free to take...

Rapt – Winifred Gallagher – My Notes

Life is fashioned from what you pay attention to and what you haven't. Or better still, your life is the sum of what you focus on. Ergo, focus on the upside. Take control of your attention. Bottom-up attention is bright-coloured things that we immediately pay...

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethu – My Thoughts

Lots and lots of practical financial advice from "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethu. Having said that, I skipped around 75% of the content of the book, as my main interest was to develop a conscious spending plan, using 4 buckets of spending; similar to...

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