When technology goes wrong (Updated)

February 21, 2022

Just a couple of cogitations – hopefully worthy -- about technology and our relationship with it.

The trouble with technology

September 19, 2019

To the adage "Never work with children or animals", I would add, "or technology" -- which is somewhat worrying given that I have been involved in educational technology for over 20 years.

When technology goes wrong

October 12, 2011

Just a couple of cogitations – hopefully worthy -- about technology and our relationship with it.

Analogue or digital?

Is there any advantage in having an analogue watch face to a digital one, or vice versa?

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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.

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Review: Making Good Progress?

Daisy Christodoulou carefully picks apart the pitfalls of various kinds of assessment, drawing on different subject areas to do so.

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Review: Principles and Practices of Assessment

There is plenty in this book to like.

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Review: Effective Teaching: Evidence and Practice

Although this is a few years old now (2018), it has stood the test of time.

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Review: One for maths teachers

This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace and a host of other areas and people.

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Reviews: Two for History teachers

Two books on the Nazi era.

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Review: One for English teachers

No book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?

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Review: The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age

If you’re of a mathematical bent this could be just the book to delve into.

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Review: How to lie with statistics

Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.

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