Fake news, bad algorithms and drones -- in the latest issue of Digital Education

August 3, 2017

The current issue of my newsletter Digital Education is another bumper reading feast. Here are the main features:

Fake news – almost exclusive content
Technology: take nothing for granted
Digibyte: online graphics (a great time-saving offer)
Two cheers for the Department of Education (DfE)
Digibyte: back to school
The great training robbery: a senior leadership perspective
If This Then That, but then what?
What I'm reading -- Weapons of Math Destruction
Droning on

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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.

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?

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.

Review: Teach Fast

The book contains some interesting ideas.

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.