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Reading and research, by Terry Freedman

Reading and research, by Terry Freedman

Book review round-up to 22 September 2019

September 25, 2019

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

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August 15, 2026
Review: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
August 15, 2026

Hopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.

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August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
Review: Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
August 15, 2026

Finding Fibonacci is a memoir of the authors’ quest to find out about Fibonacci.

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August 15, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Quick look: The Teachers' Standards in Primary Schools
August 14, 2026

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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August 14, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Quick look: How Computer Games Help Children learn
August 14, 2026

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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August 14, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Quick look: Reinventing Project-Based Learning
August 14, 2026

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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August 14, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Quick look: The Human Touch
August 14, 2026

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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August 14, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Quick look: Better Living through science
August 14, 2026

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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August 14, 2026
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August 14, 2026
Quick look: Tubes: Behind the scenes at the internet
August 14, 2026

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?

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August 14, 2026
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August 6, 2026
Quick look: Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) do leaders make a difference?
August 6, 2026

I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference.

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August 6, 2026
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June 26, 2026
Review: The Shortest History of AI
June 26, 2026

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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June 26, 2026
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When.jpg
Review: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Hopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.

Read more →
finding fibonacci.jpg
Review: 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.

Read more →
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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.

Read more →
How Computer Games Help Children learn.jpg
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.

Read more →
Reinventing Project-Based learning.jpg
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.

Read more →
The human touch.jpg
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.

Read more →
Better Living through science.jpg
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.

Read more →
Tubes.jpg
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 more →
profits, prophets.jpg
Quick 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.

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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.

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