It's Your Time You're Wasting

It's Your Time You're Wasting

The Education YouTube Channel with David Didau and Martin Robinson

Should Mobile Phones be Banned In Schools? 30/04/2021

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Should Mobile Phones be Banned In Schools? The English Education Secretary declared that Mobile Phones should not be used or seen during the school day. Favourite children's poet , Michael Rosen, disa...

The Battle at Batley Grammar: Is there a Culture War in Schools? - Episode 9 Season 2 26/03/2021

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The Battle at Batley Grammar: Is there a Culture War in Schools? - Episode 9 Season 2 teacher is in hiding after teaching an RE class in which were shown images of Mohammed. Pupils were asked to not attend the school and are be...

Pointy Elbows and Choices: Doug Lemov and Changes to Education - Episode 8 Season 2 14/03/2021

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Pointy Elbows and Choices: Doug Lemov and Changes to Education - Episode 8 Season 2 We look at the pressure 'pointy-elbowed parents' might put on teachers and schools in order to get their little Clives and Jemimas the grades they 'deserve',...

Tattooed Teachers, and Who Makes the Rules?! - Episode 6 Season 2 26/02/2021

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Tattooed Teachers, and Who Makes the Rules?! - Episode 6 Season 2 Should teachers have tattoos? Should school houses be named after dead white men, or after more recent and respected celebrities? Are exams going to be asses...

Exams, Tests, AI, Commissioners and Tsars - Episode 5 Season 2 19/02/2021

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Exams, Tests, AI, Commissioners and Tsars - Episode 5 Season 2 We discuss Pearson's exam review, Artificial Intelligence that 'reads' pupils' emotions, the outgoing children's commissioner, Anne Longfield's parting speec...

Powerful Knowledge, Decolonisation and Should Private Schools Be Abolished? Prof. Michael Young 16/02/2021

Powerful Knowledge, Decolonisation and Should Private Schools Be Abolished? Prof. Michael Young Prof. Michael Young talks to Martin Robinson about - What is knowledge? Knowledge in Education and its relationship to the curriculum. What is the difference...

Powerful Knowledge, Farage and the Churchill House Farrago, and more in Episode 4 Season 2 12/02/2021

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Powerful Knowledge, Farage and the Churchill House Farrago, and more in Episode 4 Season 2 In which David Didau and Martin Robinson discuss Nigel Farage and his viewpoint on the Churchill House controversy and what about JK Rowling house too? There...

The Recovery Curriculum: What are our Pupils Recovering From? Episode 3 Season 2 06/02/2021

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The Recovery Curriculum: What are our Pupils Recovering From? Episode 3 Season 2 Looking at the appointment of Sir Kevan Collins as Recovery Tsar, the calls for recovery curriculums, the need for well-being and mental health support, pote...

E.D. Hirsch On Cultural Literacy and Educating a Citizen. Full Interview. 28/01/2021

E.D. Hirsch On Cultural Literacy and Educating a Citizen. Full Interview. E D Hirsch talks to David Didau and Martin Robinson about his latest book, 'How To Educate A Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation', and t...

Truth and Lies - What Should Schools Teach? Biden, Gorman's Poem, Fronted Adverbials - Ep.2 Season 2 23/01/2021

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Truth and Lies - What Should Schools Teach? Biden, Gorman's Poem, Fronted Adverbials - Ep.2 Season 2 A look at the newly released UCLPress second edition of What Should Schools Teach? PDF available here for free: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/165026 wi...

Testing Times: Exams replaced by Exams? Lateral Flow Tests, Curriculum and Defining Education. 17/01/2021

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Testing Times: Exams replaced by Exams? Lateral Flow Tests, Curriculum and Defining Education. We're back for season 2 with our hosts Martin Robinson and David Didau plus an interview with Bennie Kara!Looking at the mess the English government is makin...

Testing Times: Exams replaced by Exams? Lateral Flow Tests, Curriculum and Defining Education. 16/01/2021

We are back! Take a look at Series 2, Episode 1 in which we look at exams being replaced by exams, Lateral Flow Tests, diversity and defining education.

Testing Times: Exams replaced by Exams? Lateral Flow Tests, Curriculum and Defining Education. We're back for season 2 with our hosts Martin Robinson and David Didau plus an interview with Bennie Kara!Looking at the mess the English government is makin...

Covid Chaos! Episode 17 25/12/2020

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Covid Chaos! Episode 17 With John Tomsett, Jane Manzone, Al McConville

Covid Chaos! Episode 17 23/12/2020

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Covid Chaos! Episode 17 With John Tomsett, Jane Manzone, Al McConville

Rethinking Assessment - replace GCSEs! - Al McConville - Full Interview 23/12/2020

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Rethinking Assessment - replace GCSEs! - Al McConville - Full Interview Alistair McConville, the Director of Learning and Innovation, Bedales School, talks about his work on Assessment at Bedales and also with the organisation 'R...

Primary Teaching through a Pandemic - Jane Manzone - Full Interview 22/12/2020

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Primary Teaching through a Pandemic - Jane Manzone - Full Interview Jane reflects on the year: kids, curriculum, online and face-to-face teaching, and catching Covid...

18/12/2020

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Eton Teacher Sacked - Toby Young - Free Speech for teachers? 15/12/2020

Eton Teacher Sacked - Toby Young - Free Speech for teachers? The General Secretary of the Free Speech Union talks about the sacking of the Eton teacher, Will Knowland, arguing the case for his reinstatement. The discus...

Things Fall Apart - Exams, Inset days and the Eton Teacher - Episode 16 12/12/2020

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Things Fall Apart - Exams, Inset days and the Eton Teacher - Episode 16 Including interviews with Sam Freedman and Toby Young, discussing exams, free speech for teachers to express their own views as well as the need for a range ...

Drama for Learning - Tim Taylor - Full Interview 09/12/2020

Drama as pedagogy:

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Drama for Learning - Tim Taylor - Full Interview Tim Taylor discusses Mantle of the Expert and why he doesn't like the word 'Oracy'. What role does drama for learning have in curriculum delivery and is it a...

The Students Knew I Was A Marxist - Claire Fox - Full Interview 08/12/2020

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The Students Knew I Was A Marxist - Claire Fox - Full Interview Sharing her thoughts on culture wars in the classroom, Baroness Fox of Buckley talks about free speech in the classroom, both for teachers and pupils. She ta...

Didau & Robinson - It’s Your Time You’re Wasting! 05/12/2020

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Debate, Oracy and Free Speech - Episode 15 05/12/2020

Discussing the Eton Teacher furore, amongst other things:

Debate, Oracy and Free Speech - Episode 15

Debate, Oracy and Free Speech - Episode 15 04/12/2020

Tonight 6pm! With Claire Fox, Tim Taylor, Mary Clare Myatt, Sarah Davies, David Didau, Martin Robinson

Debate, Oracy and Free Speech - Episode 15

The Interdisciplinary School - Carl Gombrich - Full Interview 02/12/2020

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The Interdisciplinary School - Carl Gombrich - Full Interview Do we expect students to specialise too early? Does our nation suffer because of the educational divide between the two cultures of Art and Science? Carl and...

Data and the Primary School - James Pembroke - Full Interview 01/12/2020

Data and the Primary School - James Pembroke - Full Interview How best to measure progress and attainment in a Primary School? Data fiend James Pembroke takes us through all the issues, whether it's the Phonics check, t...