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AI Footprint Estimator
In Jan 2025, using some of the new AI coding apps, I designed a simple app for students to estimate the environmental impacts of their AI usage. This is the updated version. Now in 2026, there is more data available,… Continue reading
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Can AI Tools Help With Academic Research?
A short post outlining some AI tools & resources I shared during EdD Summer School at the University of Bath. Continue reading
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Is Your ‘In-Person’ Conference Inclusive?
As most – but not all – of the world transitions to a ‘post-covid’ era, more and more conferences are switching back to in-person only events. But are we losing great opportunities with this to be more intentionally inclusive of… Continue reading
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Recording A DJ Mix Using A Virtual Cable
A bit of a departure from education posts… over the summer here in Beijing, I got back into mixing and relearned some old skills. I also picked up some new technical skills, including the complexity of recording sets on a… Continue reading
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Visualising The New MYP Interdisciplinary Learning Objectives
A quick post to share a graphic (made in Canva) to visualise the objectives for the new MYP Interdisciplinary Learning Guide (link to source, MyIB login needed)*. I’ve also updated my MYP overview MegaSheet to include the new rubrics, though… Continue reading
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The Quest for Learning in an IB Context
This post is a quick review of “The Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement” by Marie Alcock, Michael Fisher and Allison Zmuda, published late 2017 by Solution Tree Press. I’m reviewing the paperback version: 122 pages plus foreword… Continue reading
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Don’t feel hopeless, despite the world right now.
Originally posted on i-Biology: IB Learner Profile With the world at fever-pitch for humanitarian crises, discrimination, a swing to the political right and environmental problems becoming compounded, it can seem like we are powerless to make a change. This might… Continue reading
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Visualising the Curriculum: A Design-Cycle Approach
This year, two of my professional learning ‘Tankyuu‘ goals are to develop the curriculum review cycle for our school and to investigate ways in which we can best communicate our curriculum to the school community: parents, teachers, students and outside… Continue reading
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In Japan
This is a neat four-minute tour through our home, Japan, and well worth a watch. Maybe it will encourage you to come to Japan, too! Continue reading
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Defining Inquiry (again)
Some more recent posts: “Is this an Inquiry with an “I” or an enquiry with an ‘e’?” Wayfinding: Curriculum as a Compass? Content & Inquiry in a Google World? How NOT to be ignorant about the world: inquiry & the… Continue reading
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Authenticity in assessment, (re-)defined and explained
For a while I’ve been banging the drum of the importance of definitions and I was reminded of its importance at the weekend as I took part in the #GAFESummit at CA and the whole-school PD session on Learning Principles.… Continue reading
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No, I Don’t Personalize Learning
Originally posted on Moments, Snippets, Spirals: Personalized learning. Differentiated learning. Individualization of learning. Three jargon elements that twist any teacher’s grey matter in spectacular motions. Which is what? Add to that the pressure that may come through a school PD… Continue reading
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Mars-Shot Thinking
Howdy @MarsCuriosity ? Keep in touch. I'll be around. — ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 24, 2014 Mangalyaan, the India Space Research Organisation‘s Mars Orbiter, has just become the first spacecraft from an Asian country to reach Mars – and… Continue reading
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Exploring Environments: Student-Designed Units & Hapara
Originally posted on i-Biology: Click here for a summary of our recent student-designed Grade 10 (MYP5) Environmental Sciences unit that we planned for students to design and implement. I used this project as my trial for Hapara, a GoogleDocs dashboard system. … Continue reading
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What are we really learning from practical work?
Originally posted on i-Biology: As we study science, a lot of our time and resources are devoted to implementing an engaging practical scheme of work. Are we really making the most educational use of this time, these resources and the… Continue reading
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