1. Educational Philosophy & Criticism
- The Parable of the River: Bedtime reading for the education reform community
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/parable-river-bedtime-reading-education-reform-aka-repair-community - The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/01/creative-leap/ - The Consilience Project | Help Wanted: On the Nature of Educational Crises
https://consilienceproject.org/help-wanted-on-the-nature-of-educational-crises/
2. Teaching Methods & Pedagogy
- 7 Ideas for Teaching the Scientific Method
https://thesciencepenguin.com/7-ideas-for-teaching-the-scientific-method/ - Building a Second Brain: The Definitive Introductory Guide
https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ - Developing Students’ Thinking by Writing
https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1743 - Hook. Book. Look. Took.
https://www.coachesonfire.com/hook-book-look-took/ - Materials for play: Why open-ended loose parts are important
https://theeducationhub.org.nz/materials-for-play-why-open-ended-loose-parts-are-important/ - Sprouts – Learning Videos – Social Sciences
https://sproutsschools.com/
3. Homeschooling & Alternative Education
- Homeschooling has revealed the absurdity of England’s national curriculum
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/education/homeschooling-absurdity-england-national-curriculum - Estia Tuition | Private Tutoring and Home Schooling in the UK
https://www.estiatuition.co.uk/ - Steiner schools: an alternative educational system
https://theeducationhub.org.nz/steiner-schools-an-alternative-educational-system/ - What are the rules about homeschooling – and how are they changing?
https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/953881/what-are-the-rules-about-homeschooling - Rudolf Steiner: Philosophy, Steiner Schools, & Legacy in Education
https://www.waldorfeducation.org/waldorf-education/rudolf-steiner-the-founder-of-waldorf-education
4. Technology & AI in Education
- Why ‘Roblox’ is the future of education
https://www.edweek.org/technology/why-roblox-is-the-future-of-education/2021/08 - Unlock the Power of Education with Artificial Intelligence
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-10-13-unlock-the-power-of-education-with-artificial-intelligence - Thinking in an AI-Augmented World
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/event/thinking-ai-augmented-world
5. Equity, Inclusion & Mental Health
- Teaching empathy? In Denmark, they’re learning it in school
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-55885017 - Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/19/mental-health-lessons-schools-young-people - Support young people to change the world | Institute of Physics
https://www.iop.org/support-young-people-change-world - About Understood | What is Understood
https://www.understood.org/ - PlanetYouth – Evidence based drug prevention
https://planetyouth.org/
6. Critical Thinking & Media Literacy
- The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/ - Calling Bullshit – Syllabus
https://www.callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html - The science of influencing people: six ways to win an argument
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/04/the-science-of-influencing-people-six-ways-to-win-an-argument
7. Language, Literacy & Communication
- Download English grammar lessons, for free, in the PDF format
https://www.englishgrammar.org/download/ - Bob the Angry Flower speaks out against improper apostrophe use
https://www.eloquentscience.com/2012/02/bob-the-angry-flower-speaks-out-against-improper-apostrophe-use/
8. Science, Math & Environment
- CKSci Unit 2: Thermal Energy
https://www.coreknowledge.org/cksci-unit-2-thermal-energy/ - Scientific Method: Definition and Examples
https://www.thoughtco.com/scientific-method-definition-and-examples-604148 - Order of Magnitude – Problems – The Physics Hypertextbook
https://physics.info/order-of-magnitude/ - Educating Girls is More Effective in the Climate Emergency than many Green Technologies
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-10-19/educating-girls-is-more-effective-in-the-climate-emergency-than-many-green-technologies/ - Climate for Teachers | CfCA
https://www.climateforchange.org/for-teachers
9. Career & Skills Development
- After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/after-decades-of-pushing-bachelors-degrees-u-s-needs-more-tradespeople - Panjango – connecting learning to life
https://www.panjango.com/ - Eyup! – We’re on a mission to plug the digital skills gap
https://eyup.io/ - What is CPD Continuing Professional Development Explained
https://cpduk.co.uk/explained
10. Higher Education & University Crisis
- Niall Ferguson: America’s Woke Universities Need to Be Replaced
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-19/niall-ferguson-america-s-woke-universities-need-to-be-replaced
11. Global & Comparative Education
- Finland Will Become The First Country In The World To Get Rid Of All School Subjects
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-school-subjects-education-system-a8027546.html - Global Learning XPRIZE
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/global-learning
12. Inspirational & Motivational
- A beginner’s guide to the late Sir Ken Robinson
https://edcentral.org.uk/edblogs/edblog-article/a-beginners-guide-to-the-late-sir-ken-robinson/ - The 30 Most Innovative People in Education Alive Today
https://www.topeducationdegrees.org/innovative-people-in-education/
13. YouTube Channels & Video Resources
- CrashCourse – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse - Veritasium
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
14. Policy & Politics in Education
- Is Gavin Williamson the worst education secretary ever?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/19/is-gavin-williamson-the-worst-education-secretary-ever - Capitalist creep on campus: the largest, quietest privatisation in UK history
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/19/capitalist-creep-on-campus-the-largest-quietest-privatisation-in-uk-history - Free school breakfast clubs will start next year with extra childcare for parents
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/free-school-breakfast-clubs-start-25212345 - Save by not paying staff for 6 weeks a year, says DfE
https://www.tes.com/news/save-not-paying-staff-6-weeks-year-says-dfe
15. Miscellaneous & Fun
- Pearls of Raw Nerdism – Science Comics, Nerdism and Stuff
https://www.raw-nerdism.com/