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Personalising Learning in the Age of Knowledge

Posted by | Published on October 14, 2017

“The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.”                           […] 

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NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: San Francisco #4

Posted by | Published on May 25, 2016

San Francisco is a wonderful city to explore with many homes and buildings having memorable architecture.  Tacy Trowbridge hosted my visit to Adobe in San Francisco (located […] 

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NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: Washington #3

Posted by | Published on May 21, 2016

“The Genographic Project is an ambitious attempt to answer fundamental questions about where we originated and how we came to populate the Earth. Through your […] 

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NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: New York #2

Posted by | Published on May 14, 2016

“From its inception, a PDS education was founded on relationships and learning by doing; it valued play as creative cognitive growth and working together as […] 

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NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: New York #1

Posted by | Published on May 7, 2016

“No one should come to New York…unless he is willing to be lucky.”                         […] 

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The Handmaid’s Tale #review and my #reading in April  →

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“Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior to viewing the Tribeca film festival […] 

Did Orwell smoke opium in Burma?  →

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George Orwell spent five years working as a police officer during the 1920s before unexpectedly resigning to become a writer. There is compelling circumstantial evidence to suggest he experimented with […] 

Orwell’s typewriter  →

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“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up at table, and I asked […] 

Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*  →

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“He hated Scotsmen!”    Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly because he disliked he idea of family origins […] 

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