I finally gave up on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. However, I did finish two books I’d been reading for a while, The Great Hunt and In Search of Deeper Learning. The Great Hunt got better at the end, but the book was a slog and I’ve decided I’m not going to read anymore of The Wheel of Time series. The teaching book was interesting because it gave descriptions of other schools. Teachers work in a bubble, so I liked reading about how other schools operate. That said, the authors have a few misguided ideas about what constitutes ‘deep learning’ and how important it is for 13 to 17 year olds.

My current stack (see below) contains one novel (which I’m loving) and usual history, pedagogy, self-help, and biography. The two books I find myself wanting to pick up most frequently are The Cradle of Citizenship (civics pedagogy) and the biography of writer John le Carré.