Bill Scott's blog
Thoughts on learning, sustainability and the link between them
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Teaching the Future: knowledge, concern and taking action
I'm keeping an eye on what Teach the Future has been doing recently – making good use of the covid-19 crisis to re-organise itself by the look of it. It's now got a core (or should that be cadre?) of...
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Orderly pangrams
Strictly speaking, a pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet. One I remember from learning to type is: "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog". This has the great virtue of making sense...
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Skyways England
Initially, I thought that this was an April Fool from the Department of Transport. I mean, just who exactly thinks that skywriting adverts in a clear blue sky is a sign of social progress? Is Chris Grayling back in charge?...
Latest posts
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Recycling postcode Catch 22
It's tough on the recycling front line. Wiltshire Council, having now re-opened its household recycling centres, has a sensible policy of asking residents to go to them on specific days according to their postcodes. For example, this week, I am...
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Has George Monbiot discovered CP Snow?
Re-discovered more like. I cannot really believe that George Monbiot (Stowe, Brasenose, & The Guardian) hasn't read Snow's two cultures exploration of how deep divisions in England about culture (and what it is to be cultured) continue to scar education...
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Walking into the CAP
I had one of those interestingly wayward meeting last week (zooming, of course). I say wayward only in the sense that I found myself talking about unexpected things. The best sort of meetings. The conversation turned, unexpectedly and unwontedly, to...
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Sleepless nights at the DfE
I've written a few times – for example here and here – about why the DfE is reluctant to endorse the 6 asks of Teach the Future, particularly so when it comes to changing the curriculum so that school students can learn...
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Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development: a history of ideas
Finally, the text of the latest Scott / Vare book has been despatched to the publishers. The title is Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development: a history of ideas. [*] The formal is the same as our most recent publication: The...
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The UK's missing carbon footprint
Everyone reading this will know that the UK has made a legally binding commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Green-tinged government supporters make a lot of noise about this. But did you know that this target excludes emissions associated...
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Are we making progress?
This a re-working of a posting from a few weeks ago. It's now posted on the Teach the Future blog. If you wanted to take a glass half-full view of how young people are being prepared for the challenges of...