What Works Conference

June 7, 2021

The London Book Fair people are once more putting on the What Works conference on 9th June 2021. The programme looks really interesting.

The London Book Fair 2017 Photo by Terry Freedman

Interim report on the What Works Conference

March 15, 2017

A very brief note about the What Works conference I attended, with a link to my London Book Fair Bulletin #1.

The What Works Conference

March 13, 2017

Alongside the London Book Fair is the What Works education conference. As you may have surmised from its proximity to the LBF, it focuses on educational publishing.

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.