Feb 2, 2019How hospital is like a classroomOn the morning of December 31, 2018, I was hospitalised with complications related to cancer — but that’s not important right now. What is important is that I spent nearly a month in a hospital bed, with a lot of time to think, and a lot of that thought was…Education8 min readEducation8 min read
Dec 18, 2018The downstairs* maid has definitely been sacked.What a mess she’s left! There’s a tumour there that’s too big to take out without busting open my bladder, so the whole gear needs to go: bladder, ovaries, uterus, lymph nodes, the works. …Cancer2 min readCancer2 min read
Nov 20, 2018What’s going on downstairs?When I was in primary school, I used to wet my pants. That’s shameful, right? …Health4 min readHealth4 min read
Published in FutureWe·Aug 30, 2018Are we over-gendering our educational futures?It seems that everywhere I look these days there’s a gender inclusion policy, a drive to remove gendered barriers, a focus on girls in STEM… and while most of me is cheering the initiatives, there’s another part of me that wonders if we’re not applying labels that risk excluding those…Women4 min readWomen4 min read
Published in FutureWe·Aug 11, 2018The Doctor Who EffectHow many times do we turn on the computer, open the newspaper, or hear on the radio a story about lazy young people, teenagers without direction, selfish technophiles? Well, here’s your daily antidote to all of that negativity, because teenagers are incredible and this one will definitely inspire you. Ishita…Space6 min readSpace6 min read
Published in FutureWe·Jul 28, 2018The Job Space Race and the Invisible MandateImagine being at school, spending up to thirteen years preparing for the same future your parents were prepared for, only to emerge into a world in which the job you’ve always (been told you) wanted no longer exists. By popular estimate, around 65% of jobs that exist today will not…Education4 min readEducation4 min read
Published in FutureWe·Jul 10, 2018Community, collaboration and connectivityCommunity is a concept that is constantly being redefined. It’s been debated by everyone from Aristotle to Zapffe, and the arguments will no doubt go on for as long as there are two humans left to form some sort of cooperative unit. On 1 July FutureWe, in partnership with online…Education4 min readEducation4 min read
Jul 4, 2018Women’s Walls and the Fractured God/dessWhen I was at University many years ago, doing my B.A., the Arts Faculty ran a great initiative for a semester in which the women’s toilets on the first floor were open for graffiti. …Poetry9 min readPoetry9 min read
Published in FutureWe·Jun 29, 2018Zak Zielezinksi: in his own wordsWhat do Ancient Egypt, a book exchange and a Palo Alto startup have in common? This guy. Meet Zak Zielezinksi, CEO of Declara, an online space which Zak describes as “a community-based, content-centric knowledge sharing and collaboration platform for professionals — in particular, teachers and educators — to engage in…Education11 min readEducation11 min read
Published in FutureWe·Jun 12, 2018The Value of WhyOne of the great challenges facing teachers in today’s classrooms is that of student disengagement. For an increasing number of students, traditional methods of teaching (direct instruction, textbooks/ prepared notes, etc) are simply not enough to keep their attention and provide opportunities for deep learning. Some see this as indication…Education3 min readEducation3 min read
