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
Hopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.
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.
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.
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.
Although this book is published by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, the focus is not on IT at all.
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.
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?
I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference.
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?
