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Getting touchy and feely about Computing -- illustrated

September 3, 2024

Making it possible for students to come face to face with real things from times gone by can have an electrifying effect on them. This is especially so when teaching Computing.

Ada Lovelace Day 2021

October 13, 2021

Imagine what Ada Lovelace might have achieved had Babbage actually built his “computer” and she hadn’t died at the age of 36.

Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage. From the British Library. Licence: Public Domain

Ada Lovelace Day

October 13, 2020

Imagine what Ada Lovelace might have achieved had Babbage actually built his “computer” and she hadn’t died at the age of 36.

Have Ada Lovelace in your Computing or education technology classroom

February 13, 2019

Help to bring education technology alive by introducing a letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage into your Computing or education technology classroom.

The importance of touch in Computing

December 1, 2017

Making it possible for students to come face to face with real things from times gone by can have an electrifying effect on them. This is especially so when teaching Computing.

Getting touchy and feely about Computing

December 21, 2015

Making it possible for students to come face to face with real things from times gone by can have an electrifying effect on them. This is especially so when teaching Computing.

Recent book reviews

Review: Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World

This book could prove useful to schools keen to cultivate their own dedicated ‘back to nature’ area.

Review: Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home

A couple of generations before the first internet cafés were opened, someone attempted pretty much the same thing by opening a ‘radio café’.

Review: Level Up Your Lesson Plans: Ignite the Joy of Learning with Fun and Educational Materials

This book is awash with ideas.

Review: Conversations With Third Reich Contemporaries: : From Luke Holland’s Final Account

This may be useful for the Hiostory department in your school.

Review: The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic

I was surprised to read some of the clearest explanations of neuroscience I've yet come across.

Review: Nature's Memory

One would think that the stories told by the exhibits in natural history museums are reasonably objective and factual, but apparently not.

On this day in 2010: Review of the Dell Latitude 2110

“Oooh!” “Ah!” “Oh my!”. Such were the collective gasps emanating from the Freedman household when I unpacked the Dell Latitude 2110 Netbook I’d been sent to review. Slim, striking and silent (but enough about me), the Latitude certainly makes the grade as far as aesthetics are concerned. But how does it actually perform?