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Ear, by Terry Freedman

Ear, by Terry Freedman

New audio articles added

October 29, 2020

Good news for readers of this blog who prefer to listen to articles rather than read them. I’ve created audio versions of some more blog posts. You can find all of the audio by clicking on this link:

Audio directory

Or you can listen to the most recent ones by looking through the blog posts below.

Featured
Discipline in the classroom: what, why and how (2026)
February 11, 2026
Discipline in the classroom: what, why and how (2026)
February 11, 2026

I’ve deleted some redundant code and changed a dead link. The rest still stands, and I still abide by it. Mty motto: don’t smile before half-term.

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February 11, 2026
10 reasons to use comics and cartoons in the classroom (Updated)
December 17, 2025
10 reasons to use comics and cartoons in the classroom (Updated)
December 17, 2025

There are at least ten good reasons to use cartoons or comics in your lessons. This article explains what they are, with links to research and useful resources.

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December 17, 2025
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August 14, 2025
The pros and cons of having an e-learning committee in a school
August 14, 2025

In my past roles as ICT Co-ordinator or e-learning co-ordinator, I have formed and chaired an ICT or e-learning committee. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having such a body?

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August 14, 2025
Testing pupils using stories (Update)
June 29, 2023
Testing pupils using stories (Update)
June 29, 2023

Here’s a different and more engaging way of testing pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding. This is an updated version of an article I wrote in 2020. This version includes some ChatGPT-generated additions.

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June 29, 2023
Resources, copyright, useful tips for using education technology in the classroom
January 1, 2022
Resources, copyright, useful tips for using education technology in the classroom
January 1, 2022

This issue of my Computers in Classrooms newsletter, dates from 2001. I am reproducing these newsletters partly in order to make sure that some of the history of using education technology is preserved, and partly because some of it is still relevant. That applies especially to the Tips section.

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January 1, 2022
Review: Audio for Authors (Yes, it IS relevant for teachers!)
December 31, 2021
Review: Audio for Authors (Yes, it IS relevant for teachers!)
December 31, 2021

Many moons ago I started my own podcast. It was called Terry Freedman’s Education Technology podcast, and it consisted of useful hints and tips for teachers of Computing and related subjects. I have to say that I found it hard going.

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December 31, 2021
My experiments with transcribing audio
November 10, 2021
My experiments with transcribing audio
November 10, 2021

I was surprised, at first, to discover that dictating articles is very easy. When I thought about it though, I realised that it should not have been surprising at all.

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November 10, 2021
Books of 2020 -- now with audio
January 1, 2021
Books of 2020 -- now with audio
January 1, 2021

Yesterday I published a blog post entitled Books of 2020, a list of the books I’ve (mostly) read in 2020. Well, it’s a bit of a long read at around 4,000 words, so I’ve created an audio version of it as well.

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January 1, 2021
Books of 2020
December 31, 2020
Books of 2020
December 31, 2020

These are the books I’ve encountered in 2020.

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December 31, 2020
Audio version of the Digital Education newsletter
November 9, 2020
Audio version of the Digital Education newsletter
November 9, 2020

As an experiment, I thought I’d create an audio version of the most recent issue of my newsletter, Digital Education.

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November 9, 2020
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Recent book reviews
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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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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?

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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.

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