Stuart Farmer

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Great analysis of the US national security strategy

Said everyone but the hire car companies 🤣

Elaboration:

The key to deepening understanding and transfer

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Well done, but you forgot about the 'large Aberdeen seagull' in your ALT text. It micht hae bin awa wi yur chips.

Good schools make good teachers What kind domains, wicked traps and school culture mean for improvement

NEW: Good schools make good trachers

If teachers don’t always improve with experience, the problem isn’t them. It’s the environment. Schools that get better do so because they make feedback clearer, practice more deliberate, and culture more trustworthy.

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It is an excellent book that summarises the issues clearly and the arguments are well supported with evidence. As a minimum, the 7 page summary chapter at the end should be compulsory reading for everyone interested in education.

Delighted to share another summary- a profoundly thought-provoking book.
A must-read for those interested in the the bigger picture of transforming learning.
Thanks to @P_A_Kirschner for his help with the summary.
Download summary and book here:
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Just the start of the conversation. So many similarities between New Zealand and Scotland.

Huge volume of water being released from Clyde hydroelectric dam. Grass in foreground, snow-capped mountains in background under blue sky.

Snow covered fields in front of snow covered mountains and a blue sky.

A clear road through snow covered hills with a blue sky with some white clouds.

A clear road through snow covered hills with a blue sky with some white clouds.

After the dreichness of yesterday, today’s drive was in pretty much perfect conditions. Slightly longer route from Wanaka to Timaru as several of the higher more direct routes were still blocked by snow. Arrived in time to meet up with @aweatherall.bsky.social for dinner.

Absolutely miserable day for the drive from Hokitika to Wanaka via Haast Pass. A good day for waterfalls if not for getting out of the car to see them.

A white lighthouse and a radio mast surrounded by shrubby subtropical vegetation

A rocky coastline with a point of land ending in jagged rocks

Rough ocean waves crashing against a rocky coastline under a grey sky

The word Hokitika spelt out using drift wood on a beach of grey rocks and sand. There are patches of blue sky in an otherwise cloudy sky.

The west coast of New Zealand between Cape Foulwind and Hokatika

Good drive from Hanmer Springs to Hokitika today through the reopened Lewis Pass where repairs are ongoing. Sunny at both ends but lots of heavy rain and some sleet in the mountains

Mountains, some snow-capped, and a river delivering lots of brown silt-laden water into an otherwise blue ocean.

Mountains, some snow-capped, and a river delivering lots of brown silt-laden water into an otherwise blue ocean.

Mountains, some snow-capped, and several rivers delivering lots of brown silt-laden water into an otherwise blue ocean.

A view from an aircraft window of a large river delivering lots of brown silt-laden water into the ocean.

Lots of evidence of the storms and heavy rain that have recently hit New Zealand on the short flight from Wellington to Christchurch

Show me a list that immediately tells me the session was wet …

Te Papa-Kura -o-Taranaki - a snow-capped conical volcano in the distance beyond flat grass fields

Now that is what I call a volcano - Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki

A Series 1 Land Rover and early Toyota Land Cruiser

A Singer Gazelle similar to one we had when I was a child

A whole one of Morris Minors and Minis

Whole line of old Fords

Southward Car Museum - some of the more mundane - an amazing collection of cars, bikes, some boats and aircraft, models and lots of old memorabilia

Ford GT40 endurance racer from late 1960s in classic Gulf colours

Subaru rally car as raced by Ken Block

Bimota SB6 and Ducati 996

McLaren similar to the one in which Bruce McLaren lost his life when testing at Goodwood

Southward Car Museum - some of the exotica

TR750 Suzuki raced by Pat Hennen, first American to win a GP

F1 Maseratis from 1950s

Huge collection of old vehicles across two floors in Southward Car Museum north of Wellington, New Zealand.

Huge collection of old vehicles across two floors in Southward Car Museum north of Wellington, New Zealand.

After a busy but very interesting day discussing curriculum at Victoria University Wellington, the NZ Ministry of Education and at a meeting of the NZ Inst of Physics I am on the start of my road trip around the North Island. heading to New Plymouth via the amazing Southward Car Museum

Australian road signs with one to Toorak changed to Toprak - 3 times World Superbike champion

There is a Superbike fan in Melbourne #Toprak

Some other interesting old machines on display. A TR750 Suzuki in Sheene colours (which got a run out on track earlier in the weekend) an XR69 Suzuki in Croz colours and some beautiful road going 916 Ducatis and an MV F4.

Some interesting bikes taking part in the classic superbikes support races at #AustralianGP RC30, GSXR, FZR, ZX-7R, 851, 888, Katana etc.

MotoGP course cars drive past marshals and medical staff with their equipment lined up at the side of the circuit

Morning circuit check done #AustralianGP

In Search of Vygotsky How the Zone of Proximal Development Became Education's Most Misunderstood Idea

In Search of Vygotsky: How the Zone of Proximal Development Became Education's Most Misunderstood Idea.
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A good day at #AustralianGP at Phillip Island #MotoGP

RMIT exhibition with kart in front of tent with robots and other exhibits at Australian MotoGP 2025

Lots of interest from young people in robotics at RMIT exhibition at Australian MotoGP

An opportunity to promote study and careers in the STEM subjects in amongst the usual trade stands #MotoGP Getting a lot of interest from kids. #STEM outreach.

A little lunchtime entertainment from Red Bull aerial display #MotoGP

I think I have selected a decent grandstand seat for the weekend #MotoGP

View from Lukey Heights across The Hayshed and Siberia corners to the Bass Strait at Phillip Island GP Circuit. The circuit is damp.

Only one place with an ocean view like this - Phillip Island #MotoGP