Could this book of 100 top tips for using Excel benefit heads of department or subject leaders?
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Review: Your Press Release is Breaking My Heart
Finding it hard to get the media to report your school’s achievements? You may find this guide useful.
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Paper work, by Terry Freedman
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I’ve recently reviewed four ed tech-related books. Here are links to them. They are: Teachers vs Tech? * How charts lie * Little quick fix: finding the theme in your data * Hello world: how to be human in the age of the machine
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Book review: Teachers vs Tech?
Two cheers for this well-researched book. If I were still a head of department in a school I would buy a copy or two to lend to interested colleagues, especially NQTs, despite my criticisms.
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Book review: How Charts Lie
This is a good book to read, and definitely one you’ll want in your armoury of resources.
Read MoreBook review: Little Quick Fix: Find the theme in your data
How do you find out what main themes are coming through your qualitative research data? In short, how can you see the wood for the trees? This is the issue which this book addresses
Read MoreBook review: Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine
Several books have been published over the last few years dealing with artificial intelligence. These books display varying levels of hysteria or anger, so it was a refreshing change to read a more balanced approach.
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Book review: Leaders Eat Last
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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Book Review: Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America
Don’t let the country-specific title put you off. This is a very useful (and readable) book.
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Review: The School Fundraising Handbook
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.
Read MoreReview: Are Your Kids Naked Online? Updated
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Review of Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder
I learnt more science from reading this book than I learnt in five years of secondary school.
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Quick look: The Meritocracy Trap
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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Review of Computing and Related Qualifications
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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Review of Dear Data
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 MoreReview: Trust me, I'm lying
In 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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Quick look: Hello World
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
Book review round-up to 22 September 2019
Here is a set of links to the educational computing books I’ve reviewed up till 22 September 2019.
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Review of Practical Pedagogy
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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Review of The Science of Learning
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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