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20 Oct 2021
I'm just going to leave this here for future reference.
No doubt I'll end up retweeting this in 2022.
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Michael Browne retweeted
The final entry in Wendy Cope's Collected Poems (2025)
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1 Jul 2025
I wrote several pieces on the Leaving Cert. and Junior Cycle exams in June.
English Paper 1: michaelbrowne.org/2025/06/07…
English Paper 2: michaelbrowne.org/2025/06/23…
Junior Cycle English:
michaelbrowne.org/2025/07/01…
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4 Jun 2025
The debacle of the Junior Cycle English exam was clear from the beginning.
I wrote this in 2015.
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21 Feb 2025
Irish policy-making. Like a kite in a hurricane.
21 Feb 2025
Schools told to prepare for AI in class as detection methods ‘will not work’ irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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Michael Browne retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Creative writing at 2nd level as envisioned by Norma Foley;
1st yr- lots of small to medium pieces trying to build maturity onto their primary school work.
2nd yr- paragraphs in isolation.
3rd yr - paragraphs in isolation.
4th yr- a module.
5th yr-AI will do it.
6th yr- none
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5 Dec 2024
I was never told that the Internet would destroy education.
Actually, I was told that we should embrace the Internet and that students don't need to know anything. I was told this by people introducing the new Junior Cycle.
Now we're being told they don't even have to create.
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3 Dec 2024
My open 'letter' to the Chair of the NCCA LC English Development Group.
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25 Nov 2024
A short blog for your morning coffee or commute.
What if a student's home life was replicated in an exam hall?
Here I imagine that scenario in relation to the new Leaving Cert projects (AACs) @NormaFoleyTD1 insists on despite opposition from experts.
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20 Nov 2024
Yawn.
Another pie-in-the-sky, naive, and unserious take on SC reform.
20 Nov 2024
Students deserve a reformed Leaving Cert that prepares them for the modern world irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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This is bananas from Michael O’Leary.
This wasteful expenditure only known about because of my work, using FOI laws that are actively being destroyed by government.
The ministers in charge of our busted FOI system and the OPW? Fine Gael TDs:
breakingnews.ie/general-elec…
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Michael Browne retweeted
13 Oct 2024
To be clear: you don’t learn to read through play.
12 Oct 2024
Discovery learning involves trying things out, experimenting and getting it wrong. This is how young children learn. Instruction is a far less efficient way to do this, as anyone who has spent any time with 3-7 year olds can tell you.
You can tell children things as many times as you want. You can read a perfectly designed script that explains phonics. And then that child will turn around and say 'How can I become a caterpillar?' and your speech is halted in its tracks.
What we say to children and what they learn are very different things. Children learn through discovery and play. If we don't understand that, then we do them a grave disservice.
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19 Sep 2024
The Government (and, dare I say, the Universities) don't want to talk about the elephant in the room: the CAO. Your argument makes sense, but any system, non-exam components or not, is going to be influenced by the CAO process. @ainehyland
19 Sep 2024
Thank you for your positive review of my article which expresses concern that allocating 40% of Leaving Cert marks for a non-exam components could widen the gap between advantaged and less advantaged students. @humphreyjones @astiunion @TUIunion @EducateTogether
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Michael Browne retweeted
18 Sep 2024
New blog!
What will Norma Foley's legacy be?
I look at English and the new Drama, Film and Theatre course.
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6 Jun 2024
I cobbled together some thoughts on English Paper 1.
michaelbrowne.org/2024/06/06…
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Michael Browne retweeted
22 May 2024
The slides on the left are from my Personal Writing Unit and were delivered free of charge to teachers of English as part of a series of webinars with @TraleeESC. The Unit was a labour of love.
The ones on the right have been for sale to students across Ireland, but not by me.
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Michael Browne retweeted
9 May 2024
An important post here about the very real and practical problems with vague curriculums.
Vagueness is often the political solution to hard problems. But it doesn't solve them - it just creates more problems down the line.
"Curriculum for Wales needs clarity not ambiguity" My latest blog on the current state of education in Wales. Inspired by @lucy_crehan @garethdjevans
@daisychristo @AndyLewis_RE
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"Curriculum for Wales needs clarity not ambiguity" My latest blog on the current state of education in Wales. Inspired by @lucy_crehan @garethdjevans
@daisychristo @AndyLewis_RE
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8 May 2024
I gave a brief presentation at the #englishmeet , hosted by @sccenglish , this day last week.
Some follow up notes and a resource here: michaelbrowne.org/2024/05/07…
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Michael Browne retweeted
2 May 2024
(New). On yesterday evening's English Meet @sccdublin including summaries of and slides from the 6 presentations. A lovely evening and the best kind of CPD.
Many thanks to Annie Donnelly, @BarragryMiriam @shadowfax06 @de_Bruner & @MorrinMiss.
juliangirdham.com/blog/engli…
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