Cancelled by researchED

A few months ago, I registered for a researchED conference, to be held in Melbourne next week. I am sceptical of researchED, but I am also genuinely curious to know what these guys are about. It seems I’m not gonna find out.

Today, I got a call from one of the conference organisers, to “discuss” my registration. She queried the email address I provided, which made no sense, and then denied querying it, but we soon got to her “concern”: when registering for the conference, I had given my “company name” as assholesRUS. Continue reading “Cancelled by researchED” →

Two Questions of the Neo-Explicit-Teaching Gang

Regular readers will be aware that I have been writing on my annoyance with the new and growing cult of “explicit teaching”. Sure, it is a much needed correction to the old and seemingly, hopefully, declining cult of inquiry game-playing. But a cult is still a cult, and the spiritual and authoritative leaders of this new cult seem unwilling take any responsibility for, or even acknowledge the existence of, the perverting of good teaching principles into mandated madness. Continue reading “Two Questions of the Neo-Explicit-Teaching Gang” →