Leaving aside issues of copyright and related matters, two things strike me about this question….
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I should have indexed stuff better, and paper updates
I have kept every single article I have ever written, but…
Read MoreAI Cynicism #2
An AI expert recently advised people to just subscribe to the premium version of one of the AI apps, rather than waste time hopping between several free ones all the time. Hmmm….
Read MoreAI Cynicism #1
I came across a “resource” recently that consists of hundreds of “ready-to-wear” AI prompts.
Read MoreAI-"written" books
It is not easy to tell just by looking at the cover, but here is what I suggest.
Read MoreThe great training robbery
Someone posted in a Facebook group recently that he thinks he's been ripped off. He was pretty sure that someone who had attended a training course of his had taken his materials and then run the training in their school. So, what can you do to lessen the chance of something like this happening to you?
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Black and white sketch photo of Terry Freedman
Every so often my natural masochistic tendencies kick in and I feel compelled to respond to people on Linkedin.
Read MoreWhy I (almost) never revise old blog posts
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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An AI experiment to summarise student feedback
An AI summary of feedback received on a course.
Read MoreElevator speeches
Sometimes, the elevator speech I hear was presumably crafted whilst going from the top floor to the bottom floor in a very tall building.
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The Joint Consultative Committee
Every so often I read about a headteacher caving in to students ‘demanding’ their rights, or demanding something or other. The usual technique is to go from zero degrees to boiling in no seconds flat, bunking off lessons to ‘protest’. My response would be to (a) suspend the lot of them
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How useful is AI for generating words?
As it happens, I first addressed this question in 2012, and the first part of this essay, down to the part about robots, is taken from the notes I made then. My opinion hasn’t changed, in spite of the enormous strides in AI in the last twelve years.
Read MoreA Single Comment on my School Report Turned my Life Around
A letter to one of my secondary school teachers.
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books to be reviewed by Terry Freedman
Navigating nonfiction books
One of the first things I look for when reviewing a non-fiction book is whether or not it contains an index. If it does, the next thing I check is whether the index is actually useful.
Read MoreMy worst IT training days #4: Too much admin on a course (Updated)
How the admin involved in a course led to its being abandoned by one group of trainers.
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Reflections on technology in the time of Covid19
Teaching and learning have moved online to a greater or lesser extent, with varying degrees of success. What has this meant, and what might it mean?
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Teaching topics that rarely, if ever, come up in the exam
Do I want my students to learn this subject, or do I want them to become thinkers in this subject?
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Barbed wire, by Terry Freedman
Teaching behind bars
Not all teaching of classes of adults is equal. At the time I had had plenty of experience of teaching adults, but it had never occurred to me that there was a possibility I could be physically harmed by the people I was teaching.
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Shopping mall, by Terry Freedman
11 edtech-related marketing trends in 2021
It’s difficult to predict the future, so please regard this article as a reflection of what may happen and probably should happen in the area of marketing in the coming year.
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Not sure, by Terry Freedman
Twitter: a re-evauation
I imagine I’ll be on Twitter for a while yet, but I do find myself spending less and less time on it, and engaging in conversations less and less.
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