Review: Power Up, by Matthew Lane

July 9, 2026

This book looks at the maths concepts — and, to some extent, the physics concepts — hidden in popular video games.

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Review: Teacher Geek

June 24, 2026

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: Making Good Progress?

June 1, 2026

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

June 1, 2026

There is plenty in this book to like.

Review: Dear Data

November 6, 2025

The authors spent a year sending each other postcards on a different theme each week, with pictorial representations of the data they had collected.

Backlist: The Written World

July 7, 2025

Writing was invented ‘only’ a few thousand years ago. It’s a fascinating story.

Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce

July 7, 2025

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

Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution

July 7, 2025

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

Review: Next Practices - An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers

May 12, 2025

Is a 2014 book on managing the computing provision in a school still worth buying?

EdTech Diary: Talking the talk

August 23, 2024

Imagine the scene: a visiting dignitary, or an inspector, is shown into your classroom and, as is expected of anyone in that situation, walks around the room chatting to the pupils. She notices...

Review: Quiet Power, by Susan Cain

August 9, 2024

Introverts thrive by being allowed to be quiet, having time for reflection and not being required to 'perform' all the time.

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.