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I'm Mark Taylor and I interview educators from around the world so that I can enable you to support your children to live, learn and grow to their full potential

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Ger Graus Gets Gritty – Season Announcement

September 29, 2025

Professor Dr Ger Graus OBE will be joining me for a dedicated season based on his book – Through a Different Lens – Lessons from a Life in Education.We will discuss in more depth the 6 chapters:1. The benefit of hindsight and the lessons learned. This includes family influences, school experiences, teachers, being a teacher…

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Top 10 Educational Resources

September 22, 2025

Today we highlight 10 previous episodes and the educational resources created or shared by my guests. These include: Reading Writing and Spelling with Jane Considine Let’s Learn About Science with Dr. Stephanie Ryan Artis Foundation – Integrating the arts throughout learning Nurture Resilience, Empathy and Global Citizenship with Lyfta Sir Linkalot – Spelling App WHO…

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Can AI create an engaging summary of a book focused interview?

September 15, 2025

In advance of our Ger Graus season which will be based on his book Through a Different Lens – Lessons from a Life in Education I have created a summary podcast of our previous conversation (Ep 439) using NotebookLM. This is as – described on it’s website – ‘the AI research tool and thinking partner…

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Top 10 resources you can use to support learning

As discussed by guests on the podcast these include:

A Children's Podcast, Mentoring, Online Teaching and Learning Tool, Science, Maths, Spelling, Reading & Writing, Arts, Resilience Empathy & Global Citizenship, Parent Engagement, Whole School Mental Health

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Most Recent Blog Posts

Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk

08 Nov 2016

This is a video of a TED talk given by Sir Ken Robinson.
These ideas and others explained in his books have really inspired me to make Education On Fire a reality.

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Hackschooling makes me happy. Logan LaPlante TED Talk

07 Nov 2016

Logan LaPlante’s TED talk as a thirteen year old explains what it is to be a hacker. Watch how he explains what education and learning is for him.

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