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Review: Effective Teaching: Evidence and Practice

May 24, 2026

Although this is a few years old now (2018), it has stood the test of time.

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In Backlist, Books in Brief, Bookshelf, Professional development, Research, Reviews Tags Effective Teaching, learning, reviews

"There's a problem in education and someone needs to do something about it"

May 24, 2026

All too often, however, keynotes by so-called “visionary” speakers leave me feeling both uninspired and uninformed.

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In News & views, Professional development Tags Computing conferences, ICT conferences, big name speakers, celebrity speakers, conferences

What I've learnt from teaching online

April 14, 2026

Since a couple of courses I signed up for moved online, along with my own courses, I find it interesting to observe the issues people have (and to discover new ones).

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In M-learning, On the lighter side, Professional development, Unintended consequences, Tips for teachers, Blast from the past Tags Online classes, webinars, mistakes, Covid19, Covid-19

9 Good reasons to attend: the ones to put to senior leaders

November 7, 2025

All of the reasons to attend that I’ve suggested in 21 reasons to attend conferences are valid, but they are personal, in a sense. So here are 9 suggested arguments that may appeal to your senior leadership team.

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In Professional development, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags education conferences, senior management, senior leadership

21 Reasons to attend conferences

October 14, 2025

It’s often difficult to get time out of school to attend a conference, but I think you should try and get to at least one a year.

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In Professional development Tags education conferences

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Quick look: My boss is a moron

September 30, 2025

I borrowed this book from the library yesterday and have had to stop reading it.

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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, Quick Looks Tags reviews, quick looks, boss
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It won’t be as bad as you think! Picture: Terrified, by Terry Freedman

8 Tips for Newly-qualified teachers

September 16, 2025

Your first few weeks at school may seem terrifying, but hopefully it won’t be as bad as you think! Here are 8 tips you may find useful.

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In News & views, Professional development, Tips for teachers Tags NQTs, new teacher, new school
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Feedback, by Terry Freedman

Feedback on my recent blogging course

August 4, 2025

Only one person left a comment. Still, quality not quantity, that’s what I say.

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In Professional development Tags course, course evaluations, feedback

On this day: The (digital) revolution comes to the London Barbican

June 18, 2025

I remember this exhibtion: it was pretty good, and I’m not somebody who is easily impressed. I thought the ideas were very creative, and I liked the interactivity.

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In Computing, Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags Barbican, Digital Education, Digital Revolution, exhibition
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Still relevant (sadly): How to lie with statistics, by Darrell Huff

May 4, 2025

Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.

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In Bookshelf, Professional development, Reviews Tags book reviews, book review, How to lie with statistics, Darrell Huff

Why I (almost) never revise old blog posts

April 30, 2025

One of the reasons I keep a blog is that it is still a great way of finding out what I think about things.

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In Reflections, News & views, Professional development Tags old blog posts, blogging

Blogger, by Terry Freedman

Blogging is not dead!

October 28, 2024

There is still a great interest in writing blogs. One of the reasons I know this is that my course on blogging currently has twelve sign-ups. That may not sound a lot, but many courses at the City Lit have far fewer.

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In Professional development Tags course, blogging

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The human touch

October 3, 2024

I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI, especially for summarising long documents. But the summaries lacked the human touch.

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In AI, Professional development, Research, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Computing education, Notebook LM, AI, artificial intelligence

AI in education Conference

February 9, 2024

Sessions include how schools can use AI effectively, curriculum and teaching methods, and assessment.

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In AI, Professional development Tags AI, artificial intelligence, conference

8 Reasons educators should blog

December 28, 2023

I think everyone involved in education should have a blog! Here, in no particular order, are my reasons.

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In News & views, Professional development Tags blogging, rreasons to blog, why blog

A lesson, by Terry Freedman

50 features of excellent ICT and Computing lessons

November 28, 2023

What makes an excellent ICT or Computing lesson? In this document I've tried to encapsulate the answer to that question.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, Tips for teachers, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags excellent ICT, excellent computing

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New online blogging course

November 2, 2023

I will be running another online course in blogging in the evenings of the 17th and 24th November 2023.

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In News & views, Professional development, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags blogging taster

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What makes a good training day? 12 suggestions and a link

September 1, 2022

Training days don't have to be dire. If you have choice in how you spend at least some of the day, here are twelve suggestions, plus a link to a humorous audio recording.

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In Professional development Tags training day, cpd, professional development, pirates

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Upcoming events

June 10, 2022

The following events may be of interest to teachers.

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In News & views, Professional development Tags events, conferences
Reading (cartoon), by Terry Freedman

Preparing for a head of department post doesn’t only involve reading. Picture credit: Reading (cartoon), by Terry Freedman

The benefits of supply teaching...

March 13, 2022

I don’t think I would go so far as to recommend supply teaching as a career option, even temporarily. However…

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In Professional development Tags HoD, supply
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Review: 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.

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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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Quick 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.

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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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