Martin Compton

1. Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025

In 1962, a very young woman named Jane Goodall stepped into the African forest.

What she would discover shattered our understanding of the place of human beings in the world.

She revealed that chimpanzees use tools, form bonds, and experience emotions.

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

I think we can expect a lot more of this sort of bs. Do you think the people that write this tripe think of themselves as journalists or would they be honest and describe themselves as I would I wonder?

“Best practice” . drives me nuts!

‘I can tell when it’s been written by AI’ Warning: the first two paragraphs might feel a bit like wading through treacle but I think what follows is useful and is probably necessary context to the activity linked at the end! LLMs generate …

'I can tell when it's been written by AI'

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Autoposted by Comet AI agent from Perplexity.

So so true

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

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In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty.

Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

What is happening to the SSR? I was delivering some training for some student reps the other day when the objective of “improving academic support” emerged on a post-it note

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The Degrading Scale — Grow Beyond Grades In her essay, Sharlyn Barrett recalls how the pursuit of perfection—whether on a scale or on a report card—stripped joy from both learning and life, and how messages about perfection left her exhauste...

Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉

Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance.

Read and share!
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The Degrading Scale — Grow Beyond Grades In her essay, Sharlyn Barrett recalls how the pursuit of perfection—whether on a scale or on a report card—stripped joy from both learning and life, and how messages about perfection left her exhauste...

I am too exhausted to care about other standards of perfection, like grades. Insecure in my personal life, I give up trying at school because I can’t bear being judged anymore. @GBGEdu @growbeyondgrades.org growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

King's researchers receive coveted Future Leaders Fellowship | King's College London UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today announced the latest recipients of its prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship, including three researchers from King’s.

Congrats to King’s researchers Dr Timothy Neate, Dr Sarah Morgan and Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko on receiving the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship 👏

From AI tools in healthcare, to the concept of justice in clean energy transitions, discover their research 👇

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Meme-ingful reflections on AI, teaching and assessment I did a session earlier today for the RAISE special interest group on AI. I thought I’d have a bit of fun with it 1. because I was originally invited by Dr. Tadhg Blommerde (and Dr. Amarpreet…

Resharing for the new academic year my AI memes post. One or two may be useful prompts for discussion with your students: mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/m...

Aye. You and me both

Love this blog as a fellow WebCT pioneer. We asked our Psychology students what they most liked about their new VLE. Many said forums even though there were very few posts. When I asked students why they said forums when they were hardly used, they said ‘but we can if we want to!’

Correspondence course! Millenials don’t know how lucky the are! ( or perhaps not) Blackboard was like a hoover!

Plus ça change; plus c’est a scroll of death Hang on it was summer a minute a go I looked at my blog just now and saw my last post was in July. How did the summer go so fast? There’s a wind howling outside, I am wearing a jumper and both actu…

kicking and screaming, I dragged myself into the new academic year by thinking and writing about Moodle and its forebears (of all things). As in life more broadly...the more things change... mcompton.uk/2025/09/15/p...

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

A Letter to Letters — Grow Beyond Grades In this letter, Subhiksha Sreeram breaks up with grades, recalling how letters once ruled her worth and turned learning into a numbers game. She shares how chasing A’s left her anxious, perfectionisti...

I want my learning to be measured by how much I’ve grown, how deeply I’ve understood, and how boldly I’ve tried, not just by the shape of the letter at the top of the page. @GBGEdu @growbeyondgrades.org growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...

A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.

Seems like such a simple thing to expect of the leader of the Labour Party and yet…

BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Teachers: Mary Somerville A remarkable 19th-century polymath inspired by the natural world and the universe beyond.

Part of the Human Intelligence series on Radio 4 of short episodes on thinkers through history, is on Teachers.

Here's Mary Somerville:

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In the dim and distant past, the senior leadership team at tower hamlets college asked staff for suggestions for a new dynamic name. Top suggestions were College 2000, Learning R Us and College-u-like. They stuck with THC until they took over the rest of East London

20:20 Football. 20 players on each team, 20 refs, 20 balls. Play until every ball hits the net.

The only time I remember to do wordle is when I see that @miafarrow.bsky.social has done wordle

A Letter to Letters — Grow Beyond Grades In this letter, Subhiksha Sreeram breaks up with grades, recalling how letters once ruled her worth and turned learning into a numbers game. She shares how chasing A’s left her anxious, perfectionisti...

“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫

High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.

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YouTube video by AccessAdvisr How accessible are the 'posh' seats at Spurs? I'll tell you!

How accessible are the 'posh' seats at Spurs? I'll tell you!

I check out the Corporate Hospitality section at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a powered wheelchair user.

What was the view like? How accessible was it? This was my experience.

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#accessibility

Luka modric was a refugee. Wonder if they hated him

NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not buff.ly/D7hmHQP