The book contains some interesting ideas.
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Review: Making Good Progress?
Daisy Christodoulou carefully picks apart the pitfalls of various kinds of assessment, drawing on different subject areas to do so.
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Review: Effective Teaching: Evidence and Practice
Although this is a few years old now (2018), it has stood the test of time.
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Review: The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age
If you’re of a mathematical bent this could be just the book to delve into.
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Backlist: The Written World
Writing was invented ‘only’ a few thousand years ago. It’s a fascinating story.
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Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce
What does it take to become an expert? And what can the Computing teacher do about it?
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Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution
The title of this book invites curiosity: what were the other three ‘revolutions?
Read MoreReview: How I review books on edtech
My views on what constitutes a book on edtech are fairly catholic. Indeed, it would me more accurate to denote the books I review as books for teachers of ICT, Computing, digital literacy etc etc,, rather than books on edtech. The latter tend to have titles like “How to teach Computing”, or “How to use Excel in the classroom”.
Read MoreReflections: What's the point of book reviews?
So many authors think they ought to be the recipient of the Nobel prize for literature.
Read MoreReview: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
This book differs from many of the books and articles I’ve read about memory because it delves into the physical changes that occur in different situations.
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