Hopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.
Read MoreReview: Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Finding Fibonacci is a memoir of the authors’ quest to find out about Fibonacci.
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Quick look: The Teachers' Standards in Primary Schools
This is very well set out. It takes each standard, and gives you ideas on how to achieve it, and what success in this context looks like.
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Quick look: How Computer Games Help Children learn
When I was teaching Econnures I realised that I could have taught quite a chunk of the synabus if I'd been able to run Sim City on the school network.
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Quick look: Reinventing Project-Based Learning
I can verify from first hand experience that PBL kept students highly engaged, and helped them to develop skills such as working with others and independent research.
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Quick look: The Human Touch
Although this book is published by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, the focus is not on IT at all.
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Quick look: Better Living through science
I have often thought that I would have been much more interested in science at school, and been much more successful at it, had the teachers taught us anything of practical value.
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Quick look: Tubes: Behind the scenes at the internet
We are all so accustomed to using the internet, searching the world wide web — "going online" — that most of us most of the time probably do not stop to consider the question: yes, but where exactly is it?
Read MoreUpdated: Reflections on assessing computing
This article began life as three separate articles, partially in the form of a diary. The “Levels” it refers to have long since been consigned to the dustbin of history, and the agencies mentioned joined the choir celestial a long time ago. But still, I think the thought processes involved are still apposite, even if the contexts have changed.
Read MoreQuick look: Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) do leaders make a difference?
I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference.
Read MoreNon-constructive proof and coding
A mathematical approach to solving a problem without actually doing anything about it.
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Review: Power Up, by Matthew Lane
This book looks at the maths concepts — and, to some extent, the physics concepts — hidden in popular video games.
Read MoreThe stimulating classroom (Updated)
How can technology help to make your classroom a vibrant, exciting place of learning?
Read MoreReview: The Shortest History of AI
How is it that ChatGPT, Claude and other Al models appear to perform so well at certain complex tasks that some people become convinced that they're sentient — only for them to then promptly fail at simple tasks that even a child could handle?
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Review: Teacher Geek
Every so often I like to take a look, or another look, at a book published a while ago, and today I’ve been looking at Teacher Geek, by Rachel Jones.
Read MoreIs Plagiarism Really a Problem? An example of the experimenter effect
I don’t often get annoyed when I read the newspaper these days –- well, not more than once per page anyway…
Read MoreICT Lessons and internet privacy -- a timely issue?
As the UK government is planning to ban social media for under-sixteen year-olds I thought this might be relevant in an oblique sort of way.
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Sale, by Terry Freedman
Courses discount
My courses running in June and July at the City Lit can now be applied for using a 15% discount code.
Read MoreFollowing instructions is usually a good idea
I asked Claude to convert a pdf flyer into an HTML format I could insert into a Markdown block in Squarespace. Here’s the result…
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Review: Teach Fast
The book contains some interesting ideas.
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