Jonathan Porter

Deputy Head (Academic) at Radley. Formerly Michaela and @TeachFirst. Interested in theology, philosophy, politics and education.

[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

I've written about our new government's plans for education. And why I'm really worried.

[The Spectator @spectator]

'The broader worry is that our new government isn’t capitalising on, or even curious, about what works.'

✍️ Jonathan Porter

https://t.co/zC75nY3OkR

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Unsupervised assessed work is dead. This cannot endure. You can't manage a system like this.

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

Interesting. James Flynn (discoverer of the Flynn effect) arguing that screens were responsible for declining IQ back in 2009:

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

The Finns are so civilised…

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

We want to believe that technology is a neutral container for ideas. It isn’t. It changes the way we think and engage with content.

https://t.co/RNP4pBlY8V

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

And it starts with a pretty good definition of poetry:

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The most hard-hitting 2 sentences in all of talent development research:

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Analysis of US college syllabi by the Open Syllabus project shows that bell hooks is assigned more than Aristotle, Judith Butler more than Plato, Edward Said more than than Kant, and Foucault more than everybody. (Thanks to Jon Shields for these comparisons.) https://t.co/Nz2lIgf4po

[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

@CapelLofft I have the same. Agree. Interestingly, one of Dorothy Sayers' sources when writing 'The Man Born to be King'.

[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

Relatedly, one of the things I don't think we know enough about is how typing and hand-writing affect thinking differently. Seems obvious to me that knowing you can more easily edit/move text changes the thinking process as kids learn to write.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

Just need to find 23 days of spare time to rewatch this.

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

20 years ago today the iconic 2005 Ashes began.

This week across @BBCSport we’ll be marking the anniversary.

“How to win the Ashes” @BBCiPlayer & @BBCOne 2310 tonight.

And DON’T miss “Settling the Score” from Wednesday where we set the drama of 2005 to
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[Slow Ways @SlowWaysUK]

What an incredible collective achievement! Well done team #SlowWays!

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[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

Hard agree. The mistake is thinking that complex thoughts can be separated from writing. But writing and thinking are symbiotic: they improve each other as they interact.

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

I think the decline of literacy actually is the underlying problem - reading and writing enable us to have more complex thoughts. As Walter Ong and Eric Havelock say you can't have philosophy in Ancient Greece without the invention of writing.

[Amanda Spielman @amanda_spielman]

1. Assessment myths are swirling again, especially around GCSEs, and especially around GCSE maths. So here’s an attempt to explain some of the issues that often seem to flummox people.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Reminder that the Old English word for a library was “bookhoard” (bōchord)

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I'd stick a pillory outside every Tube station, and make six hours in it the default punishment for fare dodging. Doesn't cost much money, humiliates the criminal, and doesn't ruin the life of young eejits who get tempted in the moment.

[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

Noteworthy that 'handwritten and closed book' exams are dismissed as 'rote learning'. Will come as a real shock to [checks notes] every intellectual until 5 minutes ago.

[Harry Samuels @hnjsamuels]

I suspect this change at Oxford is the beginning of a broader trend. Students doing their exams without browser-limiting software or active proctoring (which I imagine is prohibitively expensive) is just not viable in the age of ChatGPT.

[Clare Sealy @ClareSealy]

New blog!

https://t.co/udb3qkUs1N

[Jonathan Porter @JHC_Porter]

@holydisrupter Is there a 10am service at Holy Trinity in Salcombe tomorrow? In the South Hams with family and would like to come to your service!