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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?

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Back Catalogue, Backlist, On this day Tags Books, review, reviews, book review, book reviews, Matthew Syed
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6 routines for Computing lessons Revisted

July 7, 2025

Routines are good, because pupils know what to expect. They are able to predict what is going to happen, and when. Some pupils, whose home lives are chaotic and unpredictable, may even feel safe because of routines.  Here are some routines that I think are useful for Computing lessons.

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In Computing, On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Michael Marland, routine, structure

A rubric for assessment? What a joke! Revisted

July 7, 2025

A lighthearted look at rubrics as a form of assessment.

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In On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Assessment Tags rubrics, assessment
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Professional Development in Technology (Updated)

July 7, 2025

The key question to ask about anything in education is “So what?”. If you can’t answer that question truthfully and convincingly in terms of students learning outcomes, then why are you undertaking that activity?

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In News & views, On this day Tags in-service training, professional development

On this day: Set trivial assignments for students of Computing stuck at home

May 28, 2025

Why set students real-world, life-changing, humanity-saving problems when trivial challenges are likely to prove equally, if not more, useful?

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In Blast from the past, On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags trivial, code, programming, HEMS, problem-solving

On this day: City Learning Centres: The end?

May 19, 2025

A failure to ask the question, when encouraged to adopt a new thing, “So what?”. I'm by no means a Luddite, but I think critical judgment is rather important.

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In News & views, On this day, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags CLC, City Learning Centres, budget, cuts, archive

On this day: Hazardous Environments

April 4, 2025

Hazardous environments: I like to think of this as being a metaphor for any situation in which one is challenged.

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In News & views, Blast from the past, On this day Tags challenge, challenges, hazardous environment, levels, skills

On this day: reasons to use education technology in lessons

March 11, 2022

Sometimes you need to convince colleagues to think about using educational technology in their lessons, or to identify where in their scheme of work they could incorporate it.

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In On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags technology, education technology
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On this day: websites to stimulate computing project ideas

January 29, 2022

Enjoy exploring these websites for ideas for projects for Computing.

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In On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags PBL, projects, project-based learning

On this day: a spreadsheet grade predictor

December 7, 2021

On December 7th, 2015, I wrote an article explaining how you could set up a spreadsheet in Excel to help you predict and analyse students’ grades.

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In On this day, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags spreadsheet, grade predictor

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On this day: Thoughts about Alexa

November 5, 2021

I can’t get used to just barking orders at someone. Whatever happened to courtesy?

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In News & views, On this day Tags Alexa, digital assistance

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On this day: what the mind sees

November 2, 2021

Here’s a link to an article about the mind playing tricks.

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In On this day Tags The mind

Cross-curricular ed tech evaluation, by Terry Freedman

9 criteria for evaluating a school’s education technology and 8 criteria regarding Computing provision

October 22, 2021

Whether you are moving to a new school, or staying where you are, it’s good to stand back and try to gauge what the school’s education technology and Computing are like. Why you would want to do that if taking up a new post is obvious: you want to see how the land lies so that you can start to identify any improvements that could be made.

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In News & views, On this day Tags evaluating, evaluating ed tech, evaluation

The problems with rubrics

October 21, 2021

Rubrics look like an easy way to tackle assessment. But they can be deceptive in that respect, and can cause the unwary to slip up.

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In Assessment, From the Archives, On this day, Blast from the past Tags assessing ICT, assessing Computing, assessment, rubrics

On this day: 5 reasons to join Computing communities

October 2, 2021
Making community software sustainableTeaching can be a lonely profession, especially if, as is often the case, you are the sole teacher of ICT or Computing in your school. Whether you’re on your own or part of a team, I’d thoroughly recommend joining a community or several. Why?
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In Computing, On this day Tags ICT, PLN, Personal Learning Network, communities, computing

On this day: Presentation: 10 stimulating ideas for the Computing curriculum

October 2, 2021

This is an article I originally published on 2 October 2017. The conference it refers to has been and gone, but I’ve added a few annotations relating to my methodology.

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In Computing, Professional development, News & views, On this day Tags conference, Edutech, Education Conferences
Archives, by Terry Freedman

Archives, by Terry Freedman

On this day: my blogging course contingency plan

July 22, 2021

Like many other people, last year I was in the position of having to run my introductory course about blogging online. Just in case things went pear-shaped, I came up with a contingency plan.

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In On this day, News & views, Professional development Tags blogging taster
Archives, by Terry Freedman

Archives, by Terry Freedman

On this day: words have precise meanings (or should have)

June 25, 2021

On 25 June 2020 I wrote about words and their connotations. That was in the middle of lockdown, and was prompted by a specific news story. But the general principle still applies.

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In On this day, News & views Tags meanings, words
On this day, by Terry Freedman

On this day, by Terry Freedman

On this day #22: When to be over-cautious

February 22, 2021

I’ve seen a lot of half-baked initiatives emanating from schools. As for governments, well it’s almost what we’ve come to expect.

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In From the Archives, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, On this day Tags caution, checklist, 25 ways to make yourself unpopular
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On this day #21: An interesting meeting at Bett

January 19, 2021

Gosh! It’s ten years since I wrote about meeting at Bett someone who had approached me for advice from the other side of the world. How far off those days seem right now.

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In From the Archives, On the lighter side, On this day Tags Bett, Advice
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Recent book reviews
Backlist: The Written World
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
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
Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution

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

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A book review for your English department colleagues perhaps
A book review for your English department colleagues perhaps

Some of these stories are so richly told, it can almost seem as though you’re right there with him.

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Review: Pen Names
Review: Pen Names

OK, so this has nothing to do with education technology, but we all read (I hope!). A very interesting examination of the pen names some authors have adopted, and why.

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Review: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History
Review: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

There's a really interesting section in this book about how ceramic storage of data and information is probably the most likely medium to stand the test of time.

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A book review for your biology colleagues perhaps
A book review for your biology colleagues perhaps

The subject under discussion here is how human physiology has developed in different ways, in response to different conditions around the world.

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Review: Social Media for Academics
Review: Social Media for Academics

This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!

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Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example
Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

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Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.

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