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Terry Freedman, writer, editor, righter of wrongs, ranter

Some highlights from Digital Education

June 27, 2018

The latest issue of my newsletter, Digital Education, was sent out a few days ago. Here are a few extracts from the latest issue...

Books in brief

Mini reviews of the following books:

  • Technically wrong
  • Bad choices
  • Machine learning and human intelligence
  • New dark age: technology and the end of the future
  • Flat Earth news

Prize draw

A chance to win a copy of Reflective Practice.

The state of Computing in England

"In short, one has the very strong impression that this qualification [Computer Science] is highly elitist. In an era when organisations are falling over themselves to promote diversity, sometimes even seeming to forget what their reason for existing is, it is at the very least morally questionable to promote such a qualification."

"I have compiled a list of available ed tech-related qualifications for the UK. You can use it to check what’s available or is going to be available. I have not included any qualifications that are going to be examined for the last time this year. You can download it from the subscribers’ only page."

What I've been reading

Full-length reviews of:

  • Reflective Practice
  • The Secret Teacher

Plus...

  • Focus on fake news
  • Useful applications
  • Useful articles
  • and more.

If you like the sound of any of that, you can subscribe for free by going to this page:

Digital Education

In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags Digital Education
← Who are you REALLY meeting?What I've been reading: Reflective Practice →
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