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Tom Breeze

Tom Breeze

Nov 4, 2026

5:51
And that's why I think it's really important.
5:55
And one of the things I've learned about book titles is that you've got to read them very carefully and you say teaching and learning.
6:02
And, you know, we both know from our jobs that it's so tempting or it's so easy sometimes to just reduce teaching to a series of strategies or a series of kind of performances that you replicate.
6:15
You know, thinking about your washing machine manual, you know, just press button B and stand back and let the magic happen.
6:20
But it's clear from that title and from knowing you as well that you wouldn't be writing that book.
6:26
You want to be talking also about what's going on under the hood when that teaching is happening, understanding how the learning is happening, which is a complicated and difficult business, isn't it?

6 MINS LATER

12:08
So, yeah, I look at working memory in quite a bit of detail in the book, but there are lots of tasks that help you think about thinking, which sounds a bit better, but that's the point.
12:22
Yeah, no, you're right.
31:24
And then what happened? Where did you go after that?
31:26
So Google Advertising, Google AdWords was working really well for me for a long time.
31:32
And then Google, as they grew, they realized they didn't like certain things.
31:37
So they didn't like people having landing pages that were just purely a page dedicated to capture someone's details.
31:44
They don't mind it now, but they didn't like it for a period.
31:46
Is that the Google slap? That was the Google slap, yeah.
31:49
Yeah, we've been around the block for a while.

9 MINS LATER

40:22
And then the Panda update caused all kinds of challenges for people.

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