This is a great book for dipping into in order to read about different teaching and assessment strategies, backed up by research.
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Review: Outstanding Formative Assessment: Culture and Practice
This book contains numerous assessment for learning techniques.
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Review: New Media in the Classroom: Rethinking Primary Literacy
This provides a great deal of information about the different aspects of "literacy” and how digital tools can be brought into the service of literacy in the primary school.
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This book takes you through the process of designing connected devices from prototyping to launching. In doing so it considers prototyping embedded, physical and online devices, types of business model, techniques for writing code and ethical considerations. It's biggest drawback, of course, is that it was published twelve years ago. software, programming and technology have moved on since then. So, potentially worth reading for the principles, but perhaps not so much for the practical aspects.
Review: Designing the internet of things
This book takes you through the process of designing connected devices from prototyping to launching.
Read MoreReview: The Batsford Book of Chess for Children New Edition: Beginner’s chess for kids
This book doesn’t have any education technology, but I think the game of chess is a worthwhile activity for kids for developing strategic thinking skills.
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Review: Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time (Pearson Resources for 21st Century Learning)
The authors of this book, ran several projects which entailed collaboration between students in classrooms in different countries.
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Quick look: Transforming behaviour in the classroom
There is plenty in this book to like, and it will provide you with more ideas and strategies than you may already be aware of. But …
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Review: Understanding the digital world: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
Although the subject matter sounds as dry as dust, the author has managed to make it really interesting. Everything is described and explained in plain English.
Read MoreReview: 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 MoreReview: 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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Review: Teach Fast
The book contains some interesting ideas.
Read MoreReview: 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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