David Didau

Chapters 10 & 11 “We've got to fight the powers that be” Public Enemy, Fight the Power

Chapter 10 open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 10 of The Second Summer of Love

The Stratford Road Job Centre: where dreams go on the dole. Luke had hoped failure would come with guidance, maybe even sympathy. Instead, he got Glennys, patron saint of soap dodgers, and a job interview with Synapse Dynamic Communications. Whatever that is.

Just over a week until publication of my new book on the joys and power of curiosity - the perfect gift for someone interested in maths or politics or archaeology or physics or art or poetry - also ideal for anyone not yet interested in those things who should be.

The Dual Coding Delusion How dual coding theory became a victim of edu-mythology and why adding visuals won’t make your teaching more memorable.

A pictures worth a 1000 words, right? But when words and pictures pull in different directions, learning falls apart. My latest piece looks at where dual coding goes wrong and how to make visuals actually help students think. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

The Dual Coding Delusion How dual coding theory became a victim of edu-mythology and why adding visuals won’t make your teaching more memorable.

A pictures worth a 1000 words, right? But when words and pictures pull in different directions, learning falls apart. My latest piece looks at where dual coding goes wrong and how to make visuals actually help students think. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

The “Just Tell Them” Trap How direct instruction gets mistranslated as 'teacher talk,' lecturing and all sorts of other dull bobbins

Telling students stuff is sensible. But if you’re *just* telling them, you’re not really teaching.
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This is why I find lecturing so unsatisfactory and unfulfilling.

The “Just Tell Them” Trap How direct instruction gets mistranslated as 'teacher talk,' lecturing and all sorts of other dull bobbins

Telling students stuff is sensible. But if you’re *just* telling them, you’re not really teaching.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Katie doesn’t. She’s on a treadmill

How far is your nearest parkrun?

I’m chuffed to know I’ve inspired you :)

You (or at least, I) get to love them

Sad times

Move house? Or, if you’re driving to gym, drive to a park?

Avoiding implementation traps Five implementation taps to help us learn from our bungled attempts to implement findings from cognitive science in schools

Why do good ideas in education so often go bad? Because we keep falling into the same implementation traps: translation, turbulence, fidelity, measurement, and accountability.
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Avoiding implementation traps Five implementation taps to help us learn from our bungled attempts to implement findings from cognitive science in schools

Why do good ideas in education so often go bad? Because we keep falling into the same implementation traps: translation, turbulence, fidelity, measurement, and accountability.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

I’m very well. Thank you

Brava @msjasminemn.bsky.social! Great piece.

If there’s one king you’d think Jacob would remember it’d be Cnut

They've also studied the impact of keeping disruptive and violent pupils in classrooms on the rest of the class, right?

I mean, surely they wouldn't just decide to base recommendations for the whole system only on the benefits for the few who cause disruption to others? Surely?!

Also recently finished The Way We Live Now by Trollope. First of his I’ve read. It was fab. Very Dickens but - I thought - funnier, certainly sharper. Will appeal to any fans of the 19C novel

Barnaby feels painfully relevant right now. There’s a real Farage character in it. Hope you enjoy

CofMC is a glorious, sprawling mess in the very best way. If you’ve only ever seen film adaptations it’s quite a shock

Yes! The mechanicals. That’s spot on. I loved the mock heroic dialogue. Big Joe was my fav

Chapter 9 “She’s got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin and she’s sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan.” Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Perfect Skin

Just posted Chapter 9 of The Second Summer of Love open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Ok. Read it.
As Pablo says of Pinon’s story, it doesn’t mean anything but I like it.

Sorry to hear that! Next time I’m in Netherlands let’s go for a run :)

How did it go?

Very best of luck. Are you on Strava?

The AI delusion and the end of teaching Inside the techno-utopian creed that wants to 'fix' education by erasing what makes it human

New essay: AI and the End of Teaching — on why school was already the best technology we ever built.” open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...