Friday Photo: Cycle Hire

September 3, 2010

In London we now have a cycle hire scheme. The idea is to get people going by bike rather than car, bus or train. Not a bad idea

Friday Photo: Fans

August 27, 2010

I took these photographs of a domestic fan – one in colour, the other in black and white – simply because I liked the look of the pattern.

Friday Photo: Ship in a Bottle

August 20, 2010

A ship in a bottle may not sound interesting to you if you’re not of a nautical bent. But one weighing 4 tons?

Friday Photo

August 13, 2010

Helping to get a new series off the ground is a photo of a great advertising hoarding from the London tube. How could you use it in your ICT/educational technology classes?

Recent book reviews

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: 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.

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A 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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