DriverlessCrocodile on Oliver Burkeman Warning: “Recovering perfectionist” Oliver Burkeman is about to be everyone’s new favourite (anti) guru. With apologies (to you and him) for… Read More »Reading: Oliver Burkeman on information overload, big rocks and the British Library
This is a great take on the benefits of reading clusters of books on a common theme. I like the way it takes the idea… Read More »Slava Akhmechet on reading in clusters
I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. It’s one of the best war novels I’ve read, and served as the final book in… Read More »Trilogy: Books as Network
Paul Romer: On growth, my number two on human capital would be to think about skills throughout the whole skill and income distribution, especially if… Read More »Paul Romer on literacy, dyslexia, inequality and the joy of reading
Children’s fiction… offers to help us to refind things we may not even know we have lost. Adult life is full of forgetting… When you… Read More »Katherine Rundell on children’s books and imagination
You can’t force young people into literature. They need to be led by pleasure and wonder. Creating a new generation of readers is important. When… Read More »“Led by pleasure and wonder”: Dana Gioia on creating a new generation of readers
Children’s books today do still have a ghost of their educative beginnings, but what they are trying to teach us has changed. Children’s novels, to… Read More »Katherine Rundell on learning from children’s books
A lot of children’s fiction has a surprising politics to it. Despite all our tendencies in Britain toward order and discipline – towards etiquette manuals… Read More »Katherine Rundell on the subversive politics of children’s books
I’m a couple of chapters away from finishing Les Miserables,* thanks to the enthusiasm of a friend** and to Nick Senger’s excellent chapter-a-day read-along schedule.***… Read More »Castles on Clouds
Flippity.net has a load of clever templates that turn Googlesheets into various educational things. We’ve just used the “Manipulatives” template to make this card-sorting game… Read More »Resource recommendation: online card-sorting game maker from Flippity