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Review: The Fundraising Handbook by Lindsey Marsh

December 2, 2022

One of the chief banes of my life as a head of computing in a comprehensive school was acquiring enough money to develop the subject and to improve the experience of using education technology for everyone across the school.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags Review, fundraising

Review: Book Wars

April 9, 2022

The digital revolution was not just about books, but social factors, personal desires, institutional goals and more.

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Review: 50 Tech Tuesday Tips

January 12, 2022

All of the tools mentioned are free of charge, or have a freemium pricing model. This is important because as a school teacher, Richard understands the importance of affordable solutions.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Review, Richard Byrne

Review: Teaching Machines (for SchoolsWeek)

November 28, 2021

Here is a very strange paradox. On the one hand, everyone agrees that a key ingredient for success in life is having great teachers. On the other, there’s a relentless narrative that education is somehow broken and that fixing it entails replacing teachers or transforming some or all of what they do.

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In History, Bookshelf, Reviews Tags Teaching Machines, Audrey Watters, Review
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Book review: Your Press Release Is Breaking My Heart

April 18, 2021

Most press releases are boring. Even worse, some are annoying. And the people who send them can be even more annoying. I can tell you these things with some authority because I receive dozens of them a day.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags PR, Janet Murray, Review
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Review of The Read Aloud Cloud

February 25, 2021

What a strange book this is!

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On this day #16: The trouble with women

January 18, 2021

When I was reading about Ada Lovelace I found it quite appalling that in her days men thought women were too mentally fragile to cope with mathematics or science.

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Review of Science Fictions

January 13, 2021

This is an example of why hype can, in own way, be dangerous. It detracts time, energy and financial resources away from interventions that may be less exciting to look at but which actually work better.

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Review of Scratch Programming in Easy Steps

December 31, 2020

The book starts with an introduction to the Scratch 3 environment, and in next to no time the reader is creating a program.

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In Bookshelf, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Reviews Tags Scratch, Sean McManus, Programming, Review
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Review: Your Press Release is Breaking My Heart

August 5, 2020

Finding it hard to get the media to report your school’s achievements? You may find this guide useful.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags press release, marketing, Janet Murray, Review, book review, bookshelf

Exclusive: Review of Bett 2017

January 18, 2017

An exclusive review of Bett 2017, even before it's taken place!

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