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Most of us have worked for all kinds of leaders, some good, some bad, some outstanding, others dismal, plus the odd one or two whose presence or absence appears to make no difference at all. But what makes someone a great leader?
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Don’t let the country-specific title put you off. This is a very useful (and readable) book.
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One of the chief banes of my life as a head of computing in a comprehensive school was acquiring enough money to develop the subject and to improve the experience of using education technology for everyone across the school. I only wish this book had been available when I needed it most.
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I learnt more science from reading this book than I learnt in five years of secondary school.
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We like to believe that meritocracy is a good thing, in that it rewards effort, and acts as a great leveller. Is that actually the case?
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Bob Harrison writes: “We have a computing curriculum and suite of qualifications which neither meet the needs of all pupils nor the needs of a rapidly evolving digital workplace and world.”
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This book covers an immense range of the kinds of data that we ‘store’. The authors spent a year sending each other weekly, themed postcards. These contained not words, but pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read MoreIn TMIL, Holiday demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate the news. A must-read for teachers of media or digital literacy.
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Hello World, by Hannah Fry, offers an interesting perspective on some of the problems besetting artificial intelligence algorithms.
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Reading and research, by Terry Freedman
Here is a set of links to the educational computing books I’ve reviewed up till 22 September 2019.
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Are new technologies useful or merely a distraction? How do we give pupils the skills they need to navigate the world when they leave school when we’re not sure what that world will be like? What is the proper place for evidence-informed education and educational research?
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This book aims to solve the difficulties teachers face in accessing educational research through the approach of presenting each research study as a double-page spread.
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This is a very interesting, thought-provoking and readable book. I’ve only read 25% so far, but it’s looking good so far.
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A page from Cool Coding.
A few initial thoughts on a book about programming and how computers work.
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Why do many people seem to be addicted to their smartphones? This book explains how we get drawn in to constantly checking for updates, and suggests what we might do about it.
Read MoreIf only all terms and conditions were presented like this!
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Computing and Related Qualifications
Here’s a brief note about why I wrote this mini-guide, and a couple of screenshots from its pages.
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If you’re looking for a course in computing or a related area, and you live in England, look no further! This ebook contains over 200 entries all in one place.
If you’re looking for a course in computing or a related area, and you live in England, look no further! This ebook contains over 200 entries all in one place.
Read MoreI recently received this massive tome, the Excel 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
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