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Review: Dear Data

November 6, 2025

The authors spent a year sending each other postcards on a different theme each week, with pictorial representations of the data they had collected.

Backlist: The Written World

July 7, 2025

Writing was invented ‘only’ a few thousand years ago. It’s a fascinating story.

Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce

July 7, 2025

What does it take to become an expert? And what can the Computing teacher do about it?

Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution

July 7, 2025

The title of this book invites curiosity: what were the other three ‘revolutions?

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

May 12, 2025

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

EdTech Diary: Talking the talk

August 23, 2024

Imagine the scene: a visiting dignitary, or an inspector, is shown into your classroom and, as is expected of anyone in that situation, walks around the room chatting to the pupils. She notices...

Review: Quiet Power, by Susan Cain

August 9, 2024

Introverts thrive by being allowed to be quiet, having time for reflection and not being required to 'perform' all the time.

Recent book reviews

Quick look: Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters

Chapters look at how technology is used around the world, online communities, and building a culturally just infrastucture, amongst other topics.

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Quick look: Artificially Gifted: Notes from a Post-Genius World

The author, Mechelle Gilford, explores how AI may render our usual way of interpreting the concept of “gifted” obsolete.

Quick look: Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives

Dr Bot discusses something I hadn’t really considered…

Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition

Rovelli draws readers into his world by describing the development of theories that scientists have posited to try and explain our world and the universe beyond.