Prize draw: win an ed tech book

December 2, 2018

Subscribers to the Digital Education newsletter have the opportunity to win a copy of one of the books listed below. I’ve reviewed both very positively.

Teachers’ Guide to Tech 2018

I reviewed this in October 2018: Teacher’s Guide to Tech

Living in the Digital World

I reviewed this in the current issue of Digital Education.

The prize draw closes tonight (2nd December 2018) at midnight, London (England) time. There are two copies of each book to be won. To be in with a chance, subscribe to Digital Education, which is free.

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.