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cover of VIBE coding by example

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Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

June 1, 2025

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

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In AI, Quick Looks, Reviews Tags reviews, VIBE, programming, Artificial Intelligence
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Computing discussion topic

May 23, 2025

A topic to discuss with your students perhaps: the hidden bias in algorithms.

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In Computing, News & views, Discussion topic, AI Tags discussion, algorithms, bias, objectivity, AI, Artificial Intelligence

On this day: Do kids still need to learn how to code?

April 30, 2025

A week or so ago we were chatting to a neighbour. She said she thinks her daughter, who looked about six years old, should learn how to code, as that’s the future. Didn’t I agree? I’m afraid I said that didn’t.

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In AI, Discussion topic Tags AI, artificial intelligence, Hello World
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Review: AI Snake Oil: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

April 23, 2025

My review of this for Teach Secondary magazine has just come out. Here is the published version, followed by the copy I submitted, which is slightly longer because it has a little more detail.

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In AI, Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, AI Snake Oil, artificial intelligence
Using AI in school

Using AI in school

Conference: Next steps for AI in Education in England

April 9, 2025

Last year I attended and reported on a similarly-named conference. The Westminster Forum is running another one this year.

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In AI, News & views Tags aI, Westminster Forum

How I reduced my marking time from 4 hours a week to 15 minutes

April 1, 2025

Reading each student’s work each week, at a rate of ten minutes each, took nearly two and a half hours. Thinking of suitable comments, adding them in to the appropriate place in Google Classroom, and updating my spreadsheet markbook took another hour and a half.

Something had to be done.

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In AI, Alternatives, On the lighter side Tags marking, assessment, automation, spreadsheet

Should the Computing curriculum be ditched?

March 28, 2025

This is a serious question. What is the point of teaching kids computer programming, when AI can do all the hard work?

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In AI, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags Computing, curriculum

An AI experiment to summarise student feedback

March 26, 2025

An AI summary of feedback received on a course.

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In AI, Research, Reflections Tags AI, Notebook LM, feedback

A big question mark, by Terry Freedman

The DfE's foray into AI for education: the good news and the (potentilly) bad news

March 20, 2025

We don’t have very long to wait before the educational AI projects funded by the Department for Education are unveiled, if all goes to plan. But I have some concerns.

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In Assessment, AI, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views Tags AI, assessment, DfE

When AI can write as well as this, I'll worry! Plus a prize competition.

March 18, 2025

To paraphrase what Arthur C Clarke said about teachers, any writer that can be replaced by a computer probably should be.

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In AI, Reviews Tags AI, quick looks, review

Dystopian visions: Computers don't argue (Updated with reference to AI)

October 16, 2024

The writer does an excellent job of both reflecting the annoyance of dealing with a computer program that has no flexibility as well as no intelligence, and highlighting the need for programs to invite human input when the consequences of not doing so can be catastrophic.

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In Discussion topic, Dystopian Visions, AI Tags Dystopian visions, computers don't argue, automated communications, AI

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Shape of the Future: How education system leaders can respond to the provocations of AI

October 7, 2024

I used Google’s Notebook LM to summarise this report. I have done this to bring the report and its main points to your attention, and to put Notebook LM through its paces.

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In AI, Research Tags Shape of the Future, AI, artificial intelligence

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The human touch

October 3, 2024

I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI, especially for summarising long documents. But the summaries lacked the human touch.

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In AI, Professional development, Research, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Computing education, Notebook LM, AI, artificial intelligence

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The KCL Report on the future of Computing Education

October 1, 2024

The Computing curriculum report from Kings College makes some great recommendations for fixing the failures of the current curriculum.

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In AI, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Research Tags computing education, curriculum, artificial intelligence, AI

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The future of AI in Education: notes on a Westminster Education Forum Conference

September 30, 2024

A few months ago I attended a Westminster Education Forum about the use of AI in Education. I spent quite some time going through the transcript and making notes, but then I thought: why not use AI to do the work?

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In AI, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence, Westminster Education Forum

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Using AI to mark students' work: postscript

September 16, 2024

I didn’t think AI's answer was good enough. I didn’t ask how ethical the proposals were. I asked it to mark an Economics essay.

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In AI, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags AI, artificial intelligence, grading, marking, essay-marking

Using AI to mark students' work

September 13, 2024

The Department for Education in England is running a study on how AI might be used for marking work. I thought I’d test AI’s ability to mark a student’s economics essay.

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In AI, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence, marking, essay-marking

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Suggestions for using AI in education

September 11, 2024

I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI. Not for creative writing I should add: I think AI has a long way to go before it will tempt me to eschew the likes of David Foster Wallace, Nabakov or Orwell. But for helping one think and, I’m sure, for admin, I think it’s a game-changer.

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In AI, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence
A blogger, by Terry Freedman

A blogger, by Terry Freedman

AI for bloggers?

July 16, 2024

In my recent blogging course, I abandoned my carefully-prepared lesson, or part pf it, threw caution to the winds, and suggested to the class that we experiment with using AI for writing blog posts. Here’s a partial blog post it came up with, which you will agree is utter rubbish…

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In AI, History, Discussion topic Tags blogging, AI, artificial intelligence

I prefer a malignant super computer to a benificent one

May 31, 2024

Imagine being in the situation where your kitchen won't allow you to rustle up an egg in case you burn yourself.

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In AI, Discussion topic Tags AI, artificial intelligence, singularity
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Recent book reviews
Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example
Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

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Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.

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Review: The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History
Review: The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History

In some respects one could view this book as a single warning repeated 64 times.

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Review: The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street 
Review: The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street 

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.

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Review: Extraordinary Learning For All
Review: Extraordinary Learning For All

As a source of potential ideas and inspiration, the book could be very useful indeed.

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Review: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
Review: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

One has the impression that the main role of the university these days is to maximise profit, while that of the majority of teaching staff is to ensure the ‘correct’ views are passed on to students. All the while, students’ main concern seems to be to seek protection from anything that might make them feel unsafe.

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Review: Next Practices - An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers
Review: Next Practices - An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers

Is a 2014 book on managing the computing provision in a school still worth buying?

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Still relevant (sadly): How to lie with statistics, by Darrell Huff
Still relevant (sadly): How to lie with statistics, by Darrell Huff

Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.

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Quick looks: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
Quick looks: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

It was a great source of pride to me, getting hundreds of students through their A levels and encouraging them to go to university. But for some time I have asked myself a question: would I recommend this route now?

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Review: The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World
Review: The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World

At first glance, you might take this to be one of those books full of affirmations and anecdotes designed to lift your mood.

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