Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.

That's wonderful. Thank you!

Sorry you *post* not pay!

@jonnybid.bsky.social Hi - know it's not the age group you teach, but love the suggestions you pay and wondered if you know of any good lists of books appropriate for 2-3 or even 4-year-olds?

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Two paragraphs from Michael Prescott's BBC memo: In reality, the first part of Trump’s speech: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, “and we fight. We fight like hell....” came 54 minutes later. Fifteen minutes into the speech, what Trump actually said: “We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.

Four paragraphs from NPR's transcript of Trump's January 6th speech: Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.

Feedback: A message in a bottle Approaches to feedback, such as written marking or 'whole class feedback', are popular classroom strategies that are undertaken daily with students of all ages and stages. But do they truly land with ...

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‘Feedback: A message in a bottle’

“If teachers are pouring hours into writing feedback, they need to know it won’t drift aimlessly like a message in a bottle, but land exactly where and how they intend.”

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Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

My favourite thing about celebrity #TheTraitors is their baked-in luvvie courtesy means that the subtext of every accusation at the round table is ‘I just think you’d be MARVELLOUS in the role of a traitor darling!’

They’re not trying to catch traitors - they’re casting them!!

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

Thoughtful piece on SEND, parents' expectations and gimmicks. Educators need to be more honest with parents about the need and efficacy of interventions and what can and cannot be remediated by classroom support.

Academic papers ask "Does X improve learning?" but schools need to know "Does X improve learning enough to justify its implementation costs compared to alternative Y?"

Two mice at the beach. One is doing a book called “1001 mazes.” The other one says “you need to learn how to relax.”

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com 🐭 🏖️

Picard: Computer! What can you tell me about the lifeform attacking the ship?

Preppy voice barely audible through static hiss: A fantastic and insightful question! Now you're really thinking like a starfleet captain. This query really gets to the heart of the thorny issue of xenobiology.

Education isn't working Learning to work with AI requires more than just using it

Writing will always be a useful life skill.

But if AI transforms the economy, will it be an economically valuable skill?

And either way - what does that mean for education?

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/education-...

If AI is being used extensively in office jobs, then should we be letting students use AI in the classroom?

No - here's why.

With reference to 3 papers that show what you do in a job isn't the template for what you do in the classroom.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/education-...

🎶 New episode out 🎶 Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social for Shostakovich and Stalin. How did Shostakovich manage to produce great art in a dictatorship, and what did it cost him?
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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Each Peach Pear Plum... Peepo!... Heard it in the Playground... Burglar Bill... what an incredible legacy.
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Bonzo Dog tribute bands are substantial.

For just $30 an hour I will watch streaming shows with your parents and tell them whether something is a flashback

How very different ’Hi-De-Hi’ could have been.

YouTube video by Levée En Masse [HD] Vladimir Horowitz - The Last Romantic

For some reason, the criminally underrated THE LAST ROMANTIC is on youtube. Probably my favorite Maysles doc. Take an hour. (via @sarahweinman.com) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMNk...

I mean, I've been to Reading, and I liked it, but...

Screenshot of a daily Mail Headline

What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

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I think about this poem a lot at the minute

Rosenshine on Knowledge Structures Barak Rosenshine is most famous for his principles of instruction, but what did he have to say about building knowledge?  In his writing on ‘Advances in research on instruction’, he put forward the i...

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Rosenshine is well known for his principles of instruction, but what did he think about knowledge?

'Rosenshine on knowledge structures'

alexquigley.co.uk/rosenshine-o...

White van with text painted on side: IF YOU SEE CRACK YOUR MONEY BACK! GOFF PLUMBING THE MODEST PLUMBERS

Living in Utah means that almost every day you see something you’ve never seen before, like a business whose main selling point is “You won’t see our asses!”