lockdown — Terry Freedman's ICT & Computing in Education blog — ICT & Computing in Education

4 ways to enhance your free offer to schools

March 20, 2021

Unfortunately, having a plethora of free services and products can cause a few headaches for schools in the longer term.

Working with schools during lockdown: 7 activities that work

March 19, 2021

A lot of edtech businesses and other organisations provide resources, and some provide lesson plans. Unfortunately, the resources on their own can become just one more free resource, and the lesson plans are often useless.

Working with schools during lockdown

June 16, 2020

Although visiting schools is unlikely to be possible in the foreseeable future (even if schools were to reopen completely), you can still help them out. Here are 7 ways you might do so.

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Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce

What does it take to become an expert? And what can the Computing teacher do about it?

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Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution

The title of this book invites curiosity: what were the other three ‘revolutions?

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A book review for your English department colleagues perhaps

Some of these stories are so richly told, it can almost seem as though you’re right there with him.

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Review: Pen Names

OK, so this has nothing to do with education technology, but we all read (I hope!). A very interesting examination of the pen names some authors have adopted, and why.

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Review: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

There's a really interesting section in this book about how ceramic storage of data and information is probably the most likely medium to stand the test of time.

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A book review for your biology colleagues perhaps

The subject under discussion here is how human physiology has developed in different ways, in response to different conditions around the world.

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Review: Social Media for Academics

This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!

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Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

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Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.

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