“Some of it is laugh-out loud funny, but some of it, about his reference being spiked, made me angry …”
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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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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 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.
Read MoreQuick look: Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters
Chapters look at how technology is used around the world, online communities, and building a culturally just infrastucture, amongst other topics.
Read MoreQuick look: Artificially Gifted: Notes from a Post-Genius World
The author, Mechelle Gilford, explores how AI may render our usual way of interpreting the concept of “gifted” obsolete.
Read MoreQuick look: Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives
Dr Bot discusses something I hadn’t really considered…
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Quick look: My boss is a moron
I borrowed this book from the library yesterday and have had to stop reading it.
Read MoreQuick looks: Listen in: How radio changed the home
Back in the 1930s, radio was the cutting edge technology in the home.
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The history of news is not simply the history of printing inventions
A few hundred years ago editors were more like collators. They would gather together bnits and pieces of news from various sources and writers and produce a pamphlet.
Read MoreQuick looks: VIBE Coding by Example
For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.
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Quick looks: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
It was a great source of pride to me, getting hundreds of students through their A levels and encouraging them to go to university. But for some time I have asked myself a question: would I recommend this route now?
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Goodwin covers the reasons he left academia, scholars, students and the system. Then he proposes some solutions.
Read MoreQuick look: AI For Educators
There are some good ideas here, especially for prompts.
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