Oh joy! The next issue of Digital Education is out today!

Coming soon: Digital Education!

April 21, 2016

Here's what the next issue of my newsletter, Digital Education, contains:

SAMR and digital signage
Assessment as a process of scientific discovery
The Assistive Technologies Conference
ICT and Computing: original research by Kay Sawbridge
Musings
Useful tips
Research news
What I've been reading: reviews of Teacher Proof, the Substitute Teacher Manual, and How to lie with statistics
What I'm currently reading
Conferences
Competition: win a copy of Karl Beecher's Brown Dogs and Barbers, which is all about Computing.

It's set to be sent out at 1pm today, so sign up now to make sure you get it!

Recent book reviews

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.

Review: 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?

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.

Review: Teach Fast

The book contains some interesting ideas.

A question of leadership

I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference. I think my views can be classified as macro and micro.