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Against the Comfortable Curriculum
At the University of Gloucestershire Festival of Learning, I was delighted to be invited to deliver a keynote lecture and spoke on the theme of Against the Comfortable Curriculum: Inclusion, Decolonisation, Justice, and the Trouble with “Good Practice”. I did not set out to argue that good practice is bad. Nor did I suggest that…
Brain Rot, AI Slop and the Work of Thinking
How can we teach and work in what Adam Aleksic calls our ‘hypermediated reality’? I spoke today at EdTech World Forum in London on Education in an Age of Brain Rot, AI Slop and Cognitive Offloading. The title is not elegant, like my usual efforts… But it tries to capture the feeling many of us…
Eating the tompouce
There are some things that resist being done neatly. I am fond of sweet pastry-related offerings—to put it mildly. So, on my many trips to Groningen, when I saw something that looked (and largely behaved) like a vanilla slice, I had to give the tompouce a go. But unlike the vanilla slice eating of my…
I Taught Philosophy for 20 Years. Here’s What I Learned.
[Apologies for the clickbait title!] I taught philosophy for at least 20 years. Long enough to become reasonably confident in what I was doing and then realise that at least some of that confidence was misplaced. We tend to think we are teaching philosophy when we explain arguments, optimistically set readings, and guide students through…
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Dave Webster 