The #twistedpair list

The #twistedpair blogging challenge asks you to put together an unlikely pairing of characters - these can be historical, contemporary or fictional - and write about the connection they have (however tenuous) and how it relates to teaching and learning. Here is the original challenge. You can use any of the pairings listed there or create a strange pair of your own.

So, what is the thinking behind this challenge?

Going through the process of thinking about this should involve a lot of creative, lateral thinking, and the end result will be a unique perspective on education - on a blog post which we can all enjoy reading and learning from. If we try this out ourselves, perhaps we can adapt this and similar ideas to promote good writing skills for our students too!

Below is a growing list of all the awesome, thought provoking blogs that people are publishing as their responses to the #twistedpair challenge. Join in!

Maha Bali - Audrey Watters meets Doc McStuffins
Niall Barr - Walter Bright, Professor Branestawm and me (Walter Bright // Prof Branestawm)
Sue Beckingham - Enquire within upon everything (Pablo Picasso // Sir Tim Berners-Lee)
Chris Betcher - Twisted pair (Pablo Picasso // Sir Tim Berners-Lee)
Steve Brophy - Know thy context
Amy Burvall - Madonna meets McLuhan (Madonna // Marshall McLuhan)
Amy Burvall - Twisted Pairs (The Beatles // Alfred Hitchcock)
Amy Burvall - Twisted Pairs: Pedagogy from the Unlikely
Amy Burvall - Leonardo Da Vinci meets Billie Holliday

Vanessa Camilleri - It's all about Spiderman and Paulo Freire

Lee Mark Davis - Of Grace and Mansbridge (W.G. Grace // Albert Mansbridge)
Debsnet - Coaching fields forever (Strawberry picking // coaching)
HJ DeWaard - What Dewey and Yoda reveal about learning (John Dewey // Yoda)
Charlene Doland - Downton Abbey and Frog and Toad

Terry Elliott - Epictetus and Mojo Nixon
Terry Elliott - A short ride on a fast hoverboard
Wendy Eiteljorg - Twisted Pair (5th graders // 12th graders)

Enoch Hale - Learning transformation or Chindogu?
Scott Haselwood - Doctor Who + Jack Sparrow + Leonardo da Vinci + Me
Sarah Honeychurch - Fools march in (Alexander Pope // Roobarb and Custard)
Sarah Honeychurch - Kicking down the cobblestones (Dave Cormier // The Red Queen)
Sarah Honeychurch - Blogging is a way of life (Mr Motivator // Steve Wheeler)
Sarah Honeychurch - Making an ass of you and me (Aristotle // Chicken Licken)
David Hopkins - Connor MacLeod and Wile E Coyote

Andrew Jacobs - Spoonful of sugar (Mary Poppins // Isambard Kingdom Brunel)

Gordon Lockhart - Connection not content (Hound of the Baskerville // MOOCow)

Richard Martin - Fork in the cat (Erwin Schrödinger // Jonny Wilkinson)

Laura Ritchie - The music lesson and the walnut tree

Tania Sheko - How Seinfeld and Maria Montessori influence me as an educator
Tania Sheko - #twistedpair for teacher PD (Slideshare)
Andrew Smith - How Monty Python and Albert Einstein inform my professional outlook (Albert Einstein // Monty Python)

Wendy Taleo - To twist or not to twist? That is the question (Deleuze and Guattari // Yuen et al)
Steve Turnbull - Talking gibberish - from nonsense to meaning in learning (Jack Bauer // Teletubbies)

Colin Warren - If at first you don't succeed... (Wile E Coyote // Sisyphus)
Sue Watling - Klimt and the Venus of Willendorf
Steve Wheeler - Danger illustrated (Socrates // Maria von Trapp)
Steve Wheeler - Einstein, Monty Python and lateral thinking
Steve Wheeler - I want to break free (Nelson Mandela // Jack Sparrow)
Noeline Wright - Heston Blumenthal and the research process

If you notice one that is missing, let me know in the comments section below, and I will add it to the list.

Photo by Greg Jordan on Flickr


The #twistedpair list by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.