Whenever I meet up with my brother-in-law during the holidays, he regularly insists we do long cross-country runs in the early morning. And because I know it’s good for me, I nearly always end up agreeing (even if I end up bleating all the way around about the cold and rain), particularly as we always […]
I’ve now been blogging for five years. By the numbers, I am pleased to share my Serendipities.blog has now reached the giddy heights of 111 signed-up subscribers. Over five years, I have somehow managed to knock up 92 posts, written over 83,000 words, and last year the blog site was visited 28,900 times from readers […]
Ok, given the relatively few books I read each year, it’s statistically unlikely I have actually read the best books (for education folk) in 2025. But here’s the thing: it’s my blog post, my ball, and so I get to choose the teams! So what follows isn’t a definitive list, but a reflective one. These […]
Another invitation arrived this weekend (compliments of the bots feeding my social media feed) offering me another packaged AI solution to mark all my student essays. Here’s the title: The #1 AI Essay Grader for Teachers And here’s the hook: Reduce grading time by 80%. Grade your entire class’s essays in 2 minutes or less and […]
Sitting down with a glass of wine this week, half-heartily trying to read (Politics on the Edge), I noticed my son was utterly absorbed by something he was reading on the computer. Even from where I was sitting on the other side of the room, I could see he was on Wikipedia. Curious, I asked […]
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