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Get the most from visiting authors

April 25, 2025

You might think an author visit wouldn’t be of much use in a subject like Computing, but you’d be mistaken.

Books for the classroom, by Terry Freedman

How to get the most from school author visits

July 26, 2019

As well as having an ed tech library, why not look into inviting an author of a computing book to speak to your pupils?

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.