Podcast appearances and mentions of ian gilbert

Joy Of Learning Season 14 Episode 1 - Recording of the session hosted at The Fabindia School as a part of the Learning Forward India Academy Professional Learning Program, focusing on Reading, Reflection and Relationships. The teachers, young and old, new and experienced, and young people take time to explore Values and take their learning forward. Take time to capture the values that people who know you would use to describe you. How do others perceive you, and what values are present or absent in their minds? Would these values be different depending on the context, e.g. as a work colleague, parent, wife/husband/partner? Be honest with yourself. Are our values always positive traits? I was once asked about the expression of anger and whether it should be considered a value. Does anger feature as a value in your list, and if so, how do you deal with it? Joy Of Learning (JOL) comes from The Little Book of Values: Educating Children to Become Thinking, Responsible and Caring Citizens by Julie Duckworth and Ian Gilbert, exploring twenty-two values taught through schools. We live in a society consumed by materialism and the desire for more. The future of education rests on immutable values: Appreciation, Caring, Cooperation, Courage, Freedom, Friendship, Happiness, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Love, Patience, Peace, Quality, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Thoughtfulness, Tolerance, Trust, Understanding, and Unity. This program will inspire you by using examples of where the values are already being used by children and adults in schools and share practical tools to stimulate discussion and philosophical debate. It will also help people take stock of their values and how they wish to lead their lives.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/learningforward/support

In Episode 50, The Occupational Philosophers chat with Ian Gilbert, the founder of Independent Thinking, a unique and highly influential organisation in education across the UK.  Independent Thinking seeks to move beyond teaching and learning, into motivation, creativity and leadership, social justice, neuroscience, inclusion, the environment and well-being. He is a prolific author with many books including the ever-popular Thunks collection, and ‘Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've Got Google?' He is committed to ongoing classroom work with children and young people, delivering keynotes and workshops at conferences around the world, and through his continuous work with teachers and leaders in schools, Ian has shown a whole generation of educators that there is always another way.  He sets the bar when it comes to speaking to teachers, children and school leaders about his vision for education and unless someone is complaining their brain hurts, he knows he hasn't got the message across yet. In this episode, Ian and The Occupational Philosophers explore: How we all need to capture those ‘sparks' of creativity and imagination Why the mainstream education system is fundamentally flawed What education and learning might look like in 2052 The power of ‘Thunks' and how they can help you think more deeply  How to harness the diversity of thought and creativity within your team Why not thinking is the best way to improve your thinking Can you solve a problem through the medium of mime? As always, there are some original thought experiments with this episode featuring: Whose question is it anyway? Thunk Tank Learn more about Ian https://independentthinking.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisiangilbert The Little Book of Thunks https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Book-Thunks-questions-Independent-ebook/dp/B005R25LKK Why do I need a teacher when I have Google? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Need-Teacher-When-Google/dp/0415468337 The Working Class  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Class-Poverty-education-alternative/dp/178135278X Toria Bono - Tiny Voices https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiny-Voices-Talk-Engagement-Empowerment/dp/1781354111/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2S8EVO98VNIOD&keywords=tiny+voices&qid=1668164141&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C389&sr=1-1   References https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay https://www.instagram.com/mrdoodle   The Occupational Philosophers hope you enjoy the show (they really enjoyed making this episode of their not-so-serious business podcast.) And as The Occupational Philosophers always say: stay curious, make stuff, play more, have fun, and date life. Say Hello to the OP's www.occupationalphilosophers.com Their day jobs JOHN: https://www.bowlandconsulting.com/ SIMON: www.simonbanks.com.au SIMON SHOWREEL: https://youtu.be/YZQdJI6qGvg  

In this episode Toria chats to Ian about her upcoming book 'Tiny Voices Talk'. As you will hear, Ian has been instrumental in helping Toria to realise her dream of creating a book that lifts more 'tiny voices' up. Ian Gilbert is an award-winning educational author, editor, entrepreneur, speaker and innovator currently based in the Netherlands and Wales after living and working in Hong Kong, Chile, Dubai and the UK. He founded the UK-based pioneering educational organisation Independent Thinking in 2004 and is happiest, he says, when he is making people's brains hurt.To get hold of a copy of Tiny Voices Talk order here - https://www.independentthinkingpress.com/books/teachingskills/tiny-voices-talk/ and if use the code ITL25 you'll get a 25% discount! Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please share it with others and I would love it if you would leave a review on Apple, Spotify or anywhere else. The Tiny Voices Talk book is out now . Use the code ITL25 to get 25% off it until the end of 2022. https://www.independentthinkingpress.com/books/teachingskills/tiny-voices-talk/

Rhythmical Mike is a spoken word artist from Derbyshire. He performs across the UK and has made recent appearances in venues as diverse as YNot festival, Bearded theory, London's Chill Pill, Sheffield Hallam University, sharing the stage with high profile artists such as Russell Brand, Rizzle Kicks, Hollie McNish and Akala. As well as poetry performances, Rhythmical Mike regularly runs poetry workshops and recitals for schools, youth centres, charities and more around the country. He spoke at the Telegraph Festival of Education 2017. Rhythmical Mike's poetry will be featured in a forthcoming publication from Independent Thinking Press, ‘Working Class' edited by Ian Gilbert. His first collection of poetry is soon to be published “Life's beautiful game”. Rhythmical Mike is also a star of YouTube, with poems such as ‘Smile' and ‘You Got This' gaining many thousands of hits. His short film of ‘Life's Beautiful Game' is winning him admirers across the world. Mike's Takeaways Our path isn't defined by school that's just the first steps. If you have a loved one who is struggling with the school system, show them that it's not the be all in life, there are thousands of professions we all know people who are making money doing nothing that that was taught in school. They need reminding. Also that they are strange for not knowing what they want to do for the rest of their life aged 15! Not many people do! Make sure your child hasn't had his confidence knocked at school especially if he's dyslexic, we hide it well, looking back on my life I realised I had the belief it's better to be the naughty kid than to feel stupid kid Show them spoken word, grime, rap film studies if they aren't engaged with English and see it this engages them. Young adults open up and are so much more engaged if you show your vulnerability abs any hardship with them first otherwise they can just think you're one of them, what do you know! If you don't know where you're going or what it why, Then taken that one next step and following your curiosity is always enough, this is where your joy will be. Listen go the friends you meet, the trips you want to go on and it will unfold. Quite often travelling and going away is the most amazing mission and self discovery but the change and what mark you can make of the world will be at home! Look around in your community and see what you can offer. Us creatives see the invisible stuff you will know what your town needs. Look and see what lights you up? What makes you obsessed? What makes you not look at your phone? That's the thing everything else can be learned as a skill, passion is uniquely yours. If there's not a scene, make a scene Contact Mike  https://theoldfarmbus.co.uk/ http://www.rhythmicalmike.co.uk/

Described as having a breathtaking understanding of how to engage even the hardest to reach of children, Jonathan has established a reputation for delivering inspiring and creative inset both in the U.K. and internationally. He has worked for many years on the kind of compelling and inspirational teaching strategies that lead to incredible outcomes and is still in the thick of it as the deputy head at a large inner city primary school in Sheffield. Jonathan has also shared his passion for learning through his role as an Advanced Skills Teacher, Lead Teacher for Sheffield Local Authority, and associate of Ian Gilbert's http://www.independentthinking.co.uk/ (Independent Thinking) company. Jonathan is passionate about working with schools to create learning opportunities that are designed not just to impart knowledge, but also to engage, inspire, and most importantly, make children think. http://guerrillaeducation.co.uk/ (http://guerrillaeducation.co.uk/) https://www.independentthinking.co.uk/ (https://www.independentthinking.co.uk/) The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Get a FREE e-copy of their professional journal at https://nape.org.uk/journal (nape.org.uk/journal)

One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves and the have-nots. Unfortunately, successive governments both in the UK and abroad have gone about solving it the wrong way. Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour no excuses and compliance , and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo. Their thought-provoking commentary, ideas and impassioned anecdotal insights are presented in the form of essays, think pieces and poems that draw together a wealth of research on the issue and probe and discredit the current view on what is best for children from poorer socio-economic backgrounds. Exploring themes such as inclusion, aspiration, pedagogy and opportunity, the contributions collectively lift the veil of feigned equality of opportunity for all to reveal the bigger picture of poverty and to articulate the hidden truth that there is always another way. This book is not about giving you all the answers, however. The contributors are not telling teachers or school leaders how to run their schools, their classroom or their relationships the field is too massive, too complex, too open to debate and to discussion to propose off-the-shelf solutions. Furthermore, the research referred to in this book is not presented in order to tell educators what to think, but rather to inform their own thinking and to challenge some of the dominant narratives about educating the feckless poor. This book is about helping educators to ask the right questions, and its starting question is quite simple: how can we approach the education of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in a way that actually makes a difference for all concerned? Written for policy makers and activists as well as school leaders and educators, 'The Working Class' is both a timely survey of the impact of current policies and an invaluable source of practical advice on what can be done to better support disadvantaged children in the school system. Edited by Ian Gilbert with contributions from Nina Jackson, Tim Taylor, Dr Steven Watson, Rhythmical Mike, Dr Ceri Brown, Dr Brian Male, Julia Hancock, Paul Dix, Chris Kilkenny, Daryn Egan-Simon, Paul Bateson, Sarah Pavey, Dr Matthew McFall, Jamie Thrasivoulou, Hywel Roberts, Dr Kevin Ming, Leah Stewart, (Real) David Cameron, Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Shona Crichton, Floyd Woodrow, Jonathan Lear, Dr Debra Kidd, Will Ryan, Andrew Morrish, Phil Beadle, Jaz Ampaw-Farr, Darren Chetty, Sameena Choudry, Tait Coles, Professor Terry Wrigley, Brian Walton, Dave Whitaker, Gill Kelly, Roy Leighton, Jane Hewitt, Jarlath O Brien, Crista Hazell, Louise Riley, Mark Creasy, Martin Illingworth, Ian Loynd, David Rogers, Professor Mick Waters and Professor Paul Clarke. Here is the Spotify link I mentioned. Some crackers on there. This is the ITPress link to the book if it helps. This resource might be useful too from the ITL site.

In this episode I am joined by Fran Morgan and Ellie Costello from Square Peg, a social enterprise that was set up in 2019 to shine a light on the plight of the many young people who struggle to attend school for various reasons. Fran and Ellie were inspired to set up Square Peg following their own experiences as parents of young people who have struggled to attend mainstream. As Fran points out in the conversation, one day her daughter refused to go to school, and it was like being plunged into freezing water - total shock, and an increasing awareness that there is scant help for the parents and carers of young people who struggle to go to school for any length of time. Fran and Ellie have since come to realise that the current situation – with school budget cuts, problems in the SEND and mental health systems and increasing anxiety amongst children and young people – means that things are far worse for families today than theft were even ten years ago. Working closely with another organisation, Not Fine In School, Square Peg has achieved an incredible amount in its first year, including appearances on various national television news programmes, articles in the mainstream and education press and questions being asked in parliament. This is a eye-opening conversation in which we discussed Fran and Ellie's experiences as parents of young people who were ‘not fine in school'; the jaw-dropping statistics around absenteeism, school refusal and exclusion; and School Differently, a new organisation that Fran and Ellie have set up with Ian Gilbert and others to look at how we might urgently rethink a school system that serves so many young people so poorly. LINKS: Square Peg: https://www.teamsquarepeg.org Poem - https://www.emilyperlkingsley.com/welcome-to-holland School Utopia - https://www.teamsquarepeg.org/school-differently Petition: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/create-a-new-absence-code-for-school-refusal Book: Changing our minds, by Naomi Fisher: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi-fisher/changing-our-minds/9781472145505/ Not fine in school Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NotFineInSchoolPublicPage/ Book - Hey Warrior: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hey-Warrior-Karen-Young/dp/1912678004 Fran Morgan on Channel 4 news: https://www.channel4.com/news/parents-fined-because-their-sen-children-wont-go-to-school Fran Morgan on BBC Breakfast TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9An8doDKO8&t=3s School differently: https://www.schooldifferently.net/ The Rethinking Education podcast is hosted and produced by Dr James Mannion. You can contact him at https://rethinking-ed.org/contact, or via @RethinkingJames on Twitter. You can join the Rethinking Education Mighty Network here: https://rethinking-education.mn.co

Mark Taylor chats to Ian Gilbert, a patron of National Association for Primary Education. Since founding Independent Thinking in 1994, Ian has built a global reputation as an educational thinker, innovator, entrepreneur, speaker and award-winning editor and writer. He was listed by the IB magazine as one of their top 15 ‘educational visionaries'. Never happier than when he is making children's brains hurt, he has a unique first-hand perspective on the world of education having lived and worked in schools and universities in the UK, the Middle East, South America and Asia. He is now sharing his time between Rotterdam, where his wife is an international school principal, and their home in the middle of nowhere deep in West Wales. He wasn't always interested in exotic foreign travel and meeting interesting people from different countries, as he started off his educational career teaching French in Northampton. He didn't really want to be a French teacher and, while you would think not wanting to teach French to people who didn't want to learn it might be a match made in heaven, it was only ever really a stepping stone. His main ambition was to work with young people in the areas that most fascinated him then and in which he has become such an important figure today – thinking, learning, motivation, creativity and helping all members of the school community be the best they can be. Through his many books including the ever-popular Thunks collection, his ongoing classroom work with children and young people, his keynotes and workshops at conferences around the world and his continuous work with teachers and leaders in schools, Ian has shown a whole generation of educators that there is always another way. Following a chance meeting in the staff room, Ian was encouraged to set up Independent Thinking in 1994 and, since then, has built up a unique educational organisation that acts as a platform for some of the UK's leading innovative educators and school leaders as well as serving as a ‘lighthouse' for so many practitioners who might otherwise fall prey to the idea that silence is respect, obedience is behaviour, grades measure education and teaching and learning are the same thing. Website https://www.independentthinking.co.uk/ (www.independentthinking.co.uk) Social Media Information @ITLWorldwide on Twitter independentthinkingworldwide on Instagram You can listen to all NAPE podcasts on their website https://nape.org.uk/nape-podcast (nape.org.uk/nape-podcast) or any podcast platform. Links available here https://nationalassociationforprimaryeducation.captivate.fm/listen (https://nationalassociationforprimaryeducation.captivate.fm/listen) For everything Education on Fire please visit https://www.educationonfire.com/ (www.educationonfire.com/) Support this podcast

Mark Taylor chats to NAPE patron Ian Gilbert. Since founding Independent Thinking in 1994, Ian has built a global reputation as an educational thinker, innovator, entrepreneur, speaker and award-winning editor and writer. He was listed by the IB magazine as one of their top 15 ‘educational visionaries’.  Never happier than when he is making children’s brains hurt, he has a unique first-hand perspective on the world of education having lived and worked in schools and universities in the UK, the Middle East, South America and Asia. He is now sharing his time between Rotterdam, where his wife is an international school principal, and their home in the middle of nowhere deep in West Wales. He wasn’t always interested in exotic foreign travel and meeting interesting people from different countries, as he started off his educational career teaching French in Northampton. He didn't really want to be a French teacher and, while you would think not wanting to teach French to people who didn't want to learn it might be a match made in heaven, it was only ever really a stepping stone. His main ambition was to work with young people in the areas that most fascinated him then and in which he has become such an important figure today – thinking, learning, motivation, creativity and helping all members of the school community be the best they can be. Through his many books including the ever-popular Thunks collection, his ongoing classroom work with children and young people, his keynotes and workshops at conferences around the world and his continuous work with teachers and leaders in schools, Ian has shown a whole generation of educators that there is always another way.  Following a chance meeting in the staff room, Ian was encouraged to set up Independent Thinking in 1994 and, since then, has built up a unique educational organisation that acts as a platform for some of the UK’s leading innovative educators and school leaders as well as serving as a ‘lighthouse’ for so many practitioners who might otherwise fall prey to the idea that silence is respect, obedience is behaviour, grades measure education and teaching and learning are the same thing. Website https://www.independentthinking.co.uk/ (www.independentthinking.co.uk) Social Media Information @ITLWorldwide on Twitter independentthinkingworldwide on Instagram The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Get a FREE e-copy of their professional journal at https://www.educationonfire.com/education-on-fire/201-read-write-code-with-jeremy-keeshin/nape.org.uk/journal (nape.org.uk/journal)

The joy of learning diaries: Hope and Friendship - HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP are essential for a TEACHER. Friendships are strengthened only with the level of MATURITY. FRIENDSHIP is the ULTIMATE of HOPE. And HOPE lies within YOU!! We build the future of education on immutable values alone: Appreciation, Caring, Co-operation, Courage, Freedom, Friendship, Happiness, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Love, Patience, Peace, Quality, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Thoughtfulness, Tolerance, Trust, Understanding & Unity. Joy Of Learning (JOL) is based on The Little Book of Values: Educating Children to Become Thinking, Responsible and Caring Citizens by Julie Duckworth and Ian Gilbert; explores twenty-two values that we can teach through schools. This program will inspire you by using examples of where the values are already being used by children and adults in schools and share practical tools to stimulate discussion and philosophical debate. It will also help people take stock of their values and wish to lead their lives. Narrated by Mohini Chauhan of The Doon Girls' School at Dehradun. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learningforward/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/learningforward/support

Ian Gilbert is a globally renowned educational thinker, innovator, entrepreneur, speaker and award-winning editor and writer, who was listed by the IB magazine as one of their top 15 ‘educational visionaries'. Ian has authored many brilliant books including the Little Book of Thunks, Independent Thinking and Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? - all three of which we discuss in this conversation. He is also a skilled editor and has curated and edited many more excellent tomes, including notably The Working Class: Poverty, Education and Alternative Voices. This is a fascinating conversation in which we discuss thunks - Ian's brilliant invention for making children's brains hurt; neoliberalism, the ideology that underpins so many of our educational woes; and our shared love of philosophy for children, an approach that has been in the headlines this week for all the wrong reasons. To name just a few juicy morsels. Here are some of the books we talked about in this podcast: The Little Book of Thunks - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005R25LKK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 A tin of thunks - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Tin-of-Thunks-by-Ian-Gilbert-/164501869061?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5337839255&customid=&toolid=10001 Independent thinking - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GY5781Y/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p2_i5 Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LC9DHT4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p2_i3 The Working Class: Poverty, Education and Alternative Voices - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BB8GP3F/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2 The Rethinking Education podcast is hosted and produced by Dr James Mannion. You can contact him at rethinking-ed.org/contact, or via @RethinkingJames on Twitter.

Humility and Appreciation, narrated by Mohini Chauhan of The Doon Girls' School at Dehradun. The future of education will be built on immutable values alone: Appreciation, Caring, Co-operation, Courage, Freedom, Friendship, Happiness, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Love, Patience, Peace, Quality, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Thoughtfulness, Tolerance, Trust, Understanding & Unity. Joy Of Learning (JOL) is based on The Little Book of Values: Educating Children to Become Thinking, Responsible and Caring Citizens by Julie Duckworth and Ian Gilbert, explores twenty-two values that can be taught through schools. This program will inspire you by using examples of where the values are already being used by children and adults in schools and share practical tools to stimulate discussion and philosophical debate. It will also help people to take stock of their values and how they wish to lead their life. There is always something to appreciate, in someone, even the worst character will have something to be appreciated. So we should appreciate it as that's the only way to build the self-esteem of a student. In a class there are braggers or the boasters who are the opposite of humility, probably they are most in need of appreciation as they haven't achieved much. And the people who achieve appreciation or are acknowledged tend to be most humble because everyone knows and applauds them. So I think if the teacher focuses on what can be appreciated and bringing ng their self-esteem up by saying good things then they will also come to a point where they will start appreciating themselves and then become HUMBLE. Humility is at the RECEIVING end and Appreciation is at the GIVING end, that is why these two values sync very well. The bottom line is a child has to be a GOOD HUMAN BEING. If the children are coming out of school as good human beings then obviously they were taught by good human beings. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learningforward/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/learningforward/support

We continue the theme this week of hearing from true experts in the field of education.Ian Gilbert has been one of the foremost leaders internationally in the field of curriculum change and advocating for a system in which students think and learn for themselves.Founder of Independent Thinking, a platform that serves the most innovative and creative minds in education, Ian's works cover a range of topics, aimed at students themselves, those involved in the teaching of students and everyone in between.This roundtable discussion, alongside Qualified Tutor's Founder, Julia Silver, and Lead Facilitator, Adrian Conway, brings out the most important and most topical conversations at this time, with a real focus on challenging the norms in education and how we must alter the way students view their education.If you want to have your voice heard, learn more about online tutoring and participate in engaging discussion while meeting other, like-minded tutors, visit https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/ and join the conversation today.If you would like to be part of the UK's first ever Level 3 Qualification in Tutoring, enrol now by clicking here and be the first in a new crop of motivated, committed, qualified tutors. Over 8 hours of workshop-style sessions led by industry experts, you'll set yourself apart in a crowded space.If you want to have your voice heard, learn more about online tutoring and participate in engaging discussion while meeting other, like-minded tutors, visit https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/ and join the conversation today.We can't wait to see you there.Don't forget to review the show - we'd love to hear how you found the advice, guidance and discussions inside. On Apple, find the Ratings & Reviews tab underneath the list of episodes - thank you.

Why Do I Need Teacher When I've Got Google? Banyak yang bisa kita pelajari di Google. Hampir semua ketrampilan. Google tak permah marah, jengkel dan selalu bisa minta diajarin ulang. Bagaimana dengan para guru di kelas? Diinspirasikan dari buku karya Ian Gilbert yg judulnya "Why Do I Need Teacher When I've Got Google?". Kalau guru nggak punya kelebihan dari Google, maka ke laut aja. Nah, bagaimana membuat kita punya keunggulan komparatif daripada Google? Simak obrolannya yuk ! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthony-dio-martin/message

Do you think there is a one-in-a-billion chance that a cow could paint a smiley face? This is one of the many questions we try to answer in this weeks episode! Questions for this episode are taken out of The Book of Thunks by Ian Gilbert and The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock Use the promo code MOOP to get 10% off your entire cart when you visit RogueEnergy.com

This week, the boys are joined by their super close friend, Ian Gilbert. We discuss privilege, peeing on the bus, Mark Johnson (AKA Daddy Weatherman) and most importantly, the fact that Josh Peck most definitely slayed on Drake an Josh.

Grey and Brady discuss questions from The Book of Thunks by Ian Gilbert and The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock. Sponsors: Amazon Prime Channels: only pay for the channels you want with Prime Video Channels. - start your free trials of over a hundred channels at tryprimechannels.com/hellointernet Backblaze: unlimited, cloud backup for Macs and PCs for just $5/month - get a fully-featured 15 day free trial at backblaze.com/hellointernet HelloFresh: $30 off your first week of HelloFresh at hellofresh.com/hellointernet with promo code Hello Internet Listeners like YOU on Patreon Show Notes: Discuss this episode on the reddit The Book of Thunks by Ian Gilbert The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock Is an official executioner a murderer? Would you rather a family member married a traffic warden or a millionaire con artist? Would a Martian know a beautiful woman if it saw one? Is it better to do your best and lose than it is to perform below par and win? If a waiter leaves an item off the bill and you say nothing, is that stealing? Are you a different person by the end of each day? Could you ever learn too much? If your name is part of who you are, would someone with the same name as you have a similar identity? If cows evolved to be cleverer, should we stop eating them? Can you be afraid of fairies? If I read a magazine in a shop without paying for it, is that stealing? Would a baby born on a deserted island know right from wrong? If genetic research identifies that you have a condition that means you will die in ten years, should you be told, whether you want to know or not? Is it okay for your job to be really boring if it pays well? Would you be happy if you had all you wanted? Would you play Russian roulette with 1 in 10 chance, if winning meant you got $100,000,000? Would you take your dream holiday for one month, if it meant you couldn't remember it?

In one of the most thought-provoking and important episodes we have ever had on the podcast, Paul talks to author, teacher and founder of Independent Thinking, Ian Gilbert. The result is a no-holds-barred, uncompromising critique of the state of education in England today and what we should be doing about it. Listen at your own … Continue reading Re-framing the Education Debate with Independent Thinker, Ian Gilbert – PP191 →

In this podcast, recorded at the ASCL Cymru annual conference, General Secretary Geoff Barton talks to: • ASCL Field Officer Barbra Lund on the distinctiveness of the Welsh education system • Headteacher Maureen Harris on her school in Merthyr Tydfil and her legacy as ASCL Cymru President 2016-17 • Headteacher Eithne Hughes on her work in developing a culture of teacher research • CUREE Chief Executive Philippa Cordingley on the excitement of the Wales vision and how school leaders can make teacher research happen • Conference interpreter Rhys George on the Welsh language • Independent Thinking’s Ian Gilbert on global trends in education • and Ross McGill (aka @TeacherToolkit) on how we can reduce teachers’ workload

Lots of good stuff in this episode. The guys discuss the movie career of a guy named Mike Jerome Putnam in greater detail than expected. Also, details of how we want our funerals to go and we get input from the audience in real-time. Ian Gilbert joins us to provide an update on getting Seattle to change their motto to "Miserable wetness that never ends" and we get serious to discuss the gap our churches have left regarding community at the expense of the real gospel. Enjoy.

Lots of good stuff in this episode. The guys discuss the movie career of a guy named Mike Jerome Putnam in greater detail than expected. Also, details of how we want our funerals to go and we get input from the audience in real-time. Ian Gilbert joins us to provide an update on getting Seattle to change their motto to "Miserable wetness that never ends" and we get serious to discuss the gap our churches have left regarding community at the expense of the real gospel. Enjoy.

Lots of good stuff in this episode. The guys discuss the movie career of a guy named Mike Jerome Putnam in greater detail than expected. Also, details of how we want our funerals to go and we get input from the audience in real-time. Ian Gilbert joins us to provide an update on getting Seattle to change their motto to "Miserable wetness that never ends" and we get serious to discuss the gap our churches have left regarding community at the expense of the real gospel. Enjoy.