Putting children and teachers at the heart of primary education: A new briefing paper from Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years) sets out recommendations for the next government to widen the curriculum and promote hands-on learning. Read on: ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…

Great to hear Dr Lili Golmohammadi’s excellent talk UCL Knowledge Lab yesterday… IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Seen here with the Catalogue of Touch - groundbreaking research with IN_TOUCH_UCL Carey Jewitt Ned Barker

#182 with John Potter 💙 w/ Cassandra Jenkins Cassandra Jenkins The Triffids The Go-Betweens James Yorkston DAWN LANDES arooj aftab Courtney Marie Andrews @theleaflibrary and more mixcloud.com/richard-graham…

I’m one of the commissioners for this. I’m happy to have been chosen, and think it could make a real difference. But I’m sad that it’s some this. Playing freely is the most natural way for children to learn, grow & be. It should be so easy. But we adults have made it so hard.

Happy International Day of Play! Great new initiative from Centre for Young Lives Sign up & learn about (or give evidence on) the Right To Play, Learning Through Play and more … Tim Gill Dr Kate Cowan Play Observatory Julia Bishop @DARECOLLABORATE Dr Yinka Olusoga centreforyounglives.org.uk/play-commissio…

Research by Dominic Wyse and Professor Alice Bradbury (Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years)) is exploring the most effective ways to teach children to read – advocating for a more balanced approach to teaching reading over a narrow focus on phonics. #WeAreIOE

A privilege to be here - wonderful on histories of involvement and connections to Freire… Culture as a verb!

Fantastic @theleaflibrary at Bishops' House last night in Sheffield with Mike from 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 L⎈ST MAP on guitar… The Lost and Found on Tribe FM looking forward to new music from them soon

Excellent ReMAP blog from Annie Davey ReMAP 'Ways of [Machine] Seeing' Engaging Art & Design teachers with issues around AI @JulianMcDougall IOE Research IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Dylan Yamada-Rice @ellieracheldare UCL Knowledge Lab Michelle Cannon reflect.ucl.ac.uk/remap-collabor…

Great to see it with you Kate!

#186 w/ John Potter 💙 lcdsoundsystem LANKUM plus upcoming EndOfTheRoadFestival 2024: richardhawley Gruff Rhys Sam Morton Samantha Morton Lætitia Sadier DAWN LANDES @ichiloaoba and other brilliant music mixcloud.com/richard-graham…

"We are keen to blame anything from smartphones to social media to video games for the problems that our kids are experiencing – anything, that is, except ourselves."

Young V&A WINS #MuseumOfTheYear 2024 and the £120,000 prize. 🏆 Congratulations to the team! Young V&A 🎉

Congratulations Young V&A #musemoftheyear Art Fund from all your friends at the Play Obsevatory John Potter 💙 Dr Kate Cowan Julia Bishop Dr Yinka Olusoga @cathbannister1 Valerio Signorelli Michelle Cannon Amazing Achievement! CatherineRitmanSmith Helen Charman Sophie Sage 👏👏👏😌

We’re overjoyed that we’re the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024! 🎉   It’s been fantastic to be part of a shortlist of brilliant museums. We'll be investing the prize in supporting the creativity of early-years who live in low-income households across the Thames Estuary (1/2)

That moment when your highly talented, conscientious, scholarly colleague tells you that they've been 'provisionally selected for redundancy'. Angry, sad, infuriated. Goldsmiths UCU UCU

Revised manuscript of our new book on play and the Opies submitted to UCL Press - time to celebrate! Playing the Archive: from the Opies to the Digital Playground. Lovely cover pic of the Time Telephone! 🙏 to all the team. Dr Kate Cowan John Potter 💙 Julia Bishop

.@theaieducatorX says teacher shortages means we NEED AI. He blocked me on LinkedIn for this response. Watch out for AI guys, folks. x.com/theaieducatorX…

#190 w/ John Potter 💙 A @lostmap special w/ @kin__bote Sara Wolff Susan Bear Pictish Trail @afterlands_music Laura Elmendorp plus Gillian Welch retrospective the brilliant @Woommusic and much more mixcloud.com/richard-graham…

10,000 more children in poverty since the election, because of the two-child benefit cap. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…