Bett 2017 Bulletin #4

January 23, 2017

I'm working on the next issue of Digital Education, my newsletter. It will contain quite a bit of information about Bett, which takes place later this week:

Overall theme of Bett this year
Guide to the main areas
Interesting new products from selected exhibitors
Complete list of keynote speakers
Link to list of all speakers
My list of interesting-looking seminars

Plus some non-Bett stuff too!

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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.