Here is a set of links to the educational computing books I’ve reviewed up till 22 September 2019.
Incidentally, if you’re fed up with books you have to read, and would prefer an unreadable one with lots of tables to consult instead, then check out my latest opus. It’s called Computing and related qualifications, and is intended to make it quicker and easier for the Head of Computing in English schools to find a computing qualification that would suit some or even all of their students.
Here’s the link: Computing and related qualifications
Some of these stories are so richly told, it can almost seem as though you’re right there with him.
OK, so this has nothing to do with education technology, but we all read (I hope!). A very interesting examination of the pen names some authors have adopted, and why.
There's a really interesting section in this book about how ceramic storage of data and information is probably the most likely medium to stand the test of time.
The subject under discussion here is how human physiology has developed in different ways, in response to different conditions around the world.
A few hundred years ago editors were more like collators. They would gather together bnits and pieces of news from various sources and writers and produce a pamphlet.
This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!
Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.
In some respects one could view this book as a single warning repeated 64 times.
Taking readers from the Middle Ages to (more or less) the present day, Gray charts how the places where we do our shopping and what we buy have changed over the centuries.
As a source of potential ideas and inspiration, the book could be very useful indeed.