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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 7h

This is tomorrow!
Still time to sponsor me. I’m
Hoping to get it done in 2 hours.

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · Aug 4

Right. I've entered a half marathon (for the first time in my life!) on 12th October and am raising money for Cancer UK. If you'd like to donate great, if not, please share the link :)
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/davids-...

“Acid on the radio, acid on the brain” Danny Willson, The Second Summer of Love

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 8h

For the tiny number of you following my novel, The Second Summer of Love, we're onto chapter 6...
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 6

The promise and danger of neuroscience

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 12h

Teachers love a good brain scan, but neuroscience tells us far less about teaching than we like to think. New 2025 studies show neuromyths still thriving in classrooms worldwide. It’s time to stop mistaking neurofolklore for knowledge. 🧠👇
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

With the advent of increasingly inexpensive access to brain imaging technology, neuroscience has entered a fascinating period of rapid advancement.

Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 1d

Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question: breakfast or brains? www.youtube.com/live/FASKHwB... with me & @trivium21c.bsky.social

YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 12h

Teachers love a good brain scan, but neuroscience tells us far less about teaching than we like to think. New 2025 studies show neuromyths still thriving in classrooms worldwide. It’s time to stop mistaking neurofolklore for knowledge. 🧠👇
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

The promise and danger of neuroscience

With the advent of increasingly inexpensive access to brain imaging technology, neuroscience has entered a fascinating period of rapid advancement.

The Trouble with Multiple Intelligences

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 1d

Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory is a comforting myth dressed up as science: conceptually muddled, empirically empty, and educationally useless. We don’t need eight kinds of genius, we just need decent evidence. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

How seductive ideas undermine our understanding of intelligence and invite pseudoscientific thinking

Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 1d

Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question: breakfast or brains? www.youtube.com/live/FASKHwB... with me & @trivium21c.bsky.social

YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!

www.youtube.com

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 1d

The Scond Summer of Love
Chapter 5
Dawn over Coventry. The music’s faded, but it’s still thrumming in their bones. Luke, Rich, and Eddie watch the sky turn a haunted blue and realise it isn’t just the night that’s ending.
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 5

“I used to think that the day would never come that my life would depend on the morning sun” New Order, True Faith

The Trouble with Multiple Intelligences

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 1d

Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory is a comforting myth dressed up as science: conceptually muddled, empirically empty, and educationally useless. We don’t need eight kinds of genius, we just need decent evidence. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

How seductive ideas undermine our understanding of intelligence and invite pseudoscientific thinking

a man in a white shirt is holding a sword and says finish her !!!

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 2d

Probs not though. We’re very good at justifying our actions to ourselves

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 3d

ALT: a man in a white shirt is holding a sword and says finish her !!!

media.tenor.com

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 3d

Not that it should matter but was she some sort of official?

How ‘true’ inclusion cuts exclusions

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Avs in Exile @avs-in-exile.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely adore Little But Fierce. We have been playing with our kids for a while now. The kids love it and it has been fun to see them grow in their imaginations and math skills. Thanks so much @dcbradshaw.com

TTRPGkids ➡️ GameHole Con! @ttrpgkids.com · 3d

@dcbradshaw.com is launching Little But Fierce soon on Kickstarter!

It's an indie rewrite of D&D that's made just for kids; sign up today here:
https://loom.ly/ElOeYKw

And check out the TTRPGkids review of Little But Fierce here:
https://loom.ly/mu8jtkE

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Michael Tidd @michaelt1979.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever I read an article like this about reducing exclusions, I want a chance to hear from teachers in the school. The ones actually dealing with the behaviours in the classroom.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

A new approach to inclusion has helped one school to reduce exclusions to zero and significantly cut suspensions. Phil Humphreys and Kiran Gill explain how

www.tes.com

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 4d

Chapter 3
“Tonight: growing concern over the rise of so-called ‘acid house’ parties…”
While Trevor McDonald warns the nation, Luke and Rich were on the phone begging a lift to Coventry.
The weekend is coming – and the bass is building.

#SecondSummerOfLove
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 3

“Wonder what's cooking at the house tonight” - Flash and the Pan, “Waiting for a Train”

“Wonder what's cooking at the house tonight” - Flash and the Pan, “Waiting for a Train”

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 4d

Chapter 3
“Tonight: growing concern over the rise of so-called ‘acid house’ parties…”
While Trevor McDonald warns the nation, Luke and Rich were on the phone begging a lift to Coventry.
The weekend is coming – and the bass is building.

#SecondSummerOfLove
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 3

“That second hand living, it just won’t do” - Jesus and Mary Chain, Head On

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 5d

Chapter 2 of The Second Summer of Love:
In the Fighting Cocks, the air hangs thick with stale lager and the ghosts of half-forgotten bands. Luke and Rich hatch a plan over bad Guinness and worse ideas and the rave begins to feel like a reality...
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 2

The Second Summer of Love

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 6d

What do you do when you’ve written a novel?
Mine began as an excavation of late-80s Birmingham, pirate radio, the birth of rave.
The Second Summer of Love: 77 chapters of sweat, basslines & coming-of-age.
First beat drops below. Subscribe for future chapters...
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

A novel set in Birmingham during 1989 set against the backdrop of illegal raves and dodgy charity scams

The Second Summer of Love

David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 6d

What do you do when you’ve written a novel?
Mine began as an excavation of late-80s Birmingham, pirate radio, the birth of rave.
The Second Summer of Love: 77 chapters of sweat, basslines & coming-of-age.
First beat drops below. Subscribe for future chapters...
open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

A novel set in Birmingham during 1989 set against the backdrop of illegal raves and dodgy charity scams

Balancing accountability & trust: five principles for effective statutory assessment

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: When Sweden scrapped national testing, grades went up but learning went down.
Statutory assessment is how a system keeps itself honest.
Light-touch, high-trust, curriculum-aligned. Tim Oates and intelligent accountability, explained.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Tim Oates argues that national tests should be light-touch, high-trust, and curriculum-aligned in order to keep standards visible without distorting what is taught

Balancing accountability & trust: five principles for effective statutory assessment

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: When Sweden scrapped national testing, grades went up but learning went down.
Statutory assessment is how a system keeps itself honest.
Light-touch, high-trust, curriculum-aligned. Tim Oates and intelligent accountability, explained.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Tim Oates argues that national tests should be light-touch, high-trust, and curriculum-aligned in order to keep standards visible without distorting what is taught