“Some of it is laugh-out loud funny, but some of it, about his reference being spiked, made me angry …”
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Are we in, or entering, a post-literate society?
I know that there are people who think that Tik-Tok videos and other (very) short-form content is a kind of literacy that’s on a par with reading, but I have my doubts.
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Review: Amazing Worlds
A very good showcase for what can be achieved from a partnership between imagination and AI.
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: 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?
Read MoreQuick look: Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) do leaders make a difference?
I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference.
Read MoreReview: The Shortest History of AI
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?
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Review: Teacher Geek
Every so often I like to take a look, or another look, at a book published a while ago, and today I’ve been looking at Teacher Geek, by Rachel Jones.
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Review: Teach Fast
The book contains some interesting ideas.
Read MoreA question of leadership
I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference. I think my views can be classified as macro and micro.
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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.
Read MoreReview: One for maths teachers
This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace and a host of other areas and people.
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