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Review: The Complete Learner's Toolkit

October 25, 2020

As far as I am aware, every cross-curricular initiative, at least in secondary education, has failed: ICT, maths, English, economic literacy… they all wind up with non-specialist teachers attempting to teach those subjects or skills. It is, at the risk of understatement, a big ask.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags Schools Week, Complete Learner's Toolkit, Jackie Beere

Review of The Fourth Education Revolution Reconsidered

October 15, 2020

Will Artificial Intelligence help to transform education?

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Audio Tags Sir Anthony Seldon, AI, artificial intelligence, review, audio

Quick look: A Beginner's Guide to Learning HTML5 (and Smacking Zombies Upside the Web Development) (Undead Institute)

October 7, 2020

A quick look at this guide, which at the time of writing was free.

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In Quick Looks, Reviews, Bookshelf Tags HTML5, HTML, book
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Click the cover to see this book on Amazon UK (affiliate link)

Review: Learning Theories for Everyday Teaching

September 11, 2020

Is this book useful as a quick way in to educational research that’s relevant to classroom practice?

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In Bookshelf, Research, Reviews Tags Learning Theories for Everyday Teaching, review

Review: The Fourth Education Revolution

September 11, 2020

Will robots and AI take over from teachers?

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Research Tags Sir Anthony Seldon, education revolution, artificial intelligence
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Book review: How Charts Lie (short version)

September 6, 2020

We are presented with charts all the time. But are they telling us how things really are?

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In Bookshelf, Books in Brief, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags How Charts Lie, review

Book review: The Meritocracy Trap

September 5, 2020

I’ve gone slightly off-topic with this book review, but I thought it provided an interesting thesis which may be useful to consider as part of bigger picture than only technology.

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In Bookshelf, Discussion topic, Research Tags Meritocracy Trap, review, society

Book review: 50 Teaching and Learning Approaches

September 4, 2020

Can a book that summarises educational theories in a series of vignettes be a substitute for in-depth study?

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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Research Tags reseach, teaching and learning, review

Book review: 100 Top Tips - Microsoft Excel, by Sean McManus

September 3, 2020

Could this book of 100 top tips for using Excel benefit heads of department or subject leaders?

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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Audio Tags Excel, McManus, review, spreadsheets, AUDIO
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Click the cover to see the book on Amazon UK (affiliate link)

Review: Your Press Release is Breaking My Heart

August 5, 2020

Finding it hard to get the media to report your school’s achievements? You may find this guide useful.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags press release, marketing, Janet Murray, Review, book review, bookshelf
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Paper work, by Terry Freedman

Book review bulletin 1

May 13, 2020

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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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Round-up, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags book reviews, reviews, bulletin
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Book review: Teachers vs Tech?

May 7, 2020

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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In Bookshelf, Research, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Daisy Christodoulou, Teachers vs Tech, research, Educational research, book review, review
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Book review: How Charts Lie

May 3, 2020

This is a good book to read, and definitely one you’ll want in your armoury of resources.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Audio Tags book reviews, book review, How Charts Lie, Alberto Cairo, charts, graphs, data

Book review: Little Quick Fix: Find the theme in your data

April 22, 2020

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

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In Bookshelf, Research, Reviews, Audio Tags book review, book reviews, review

Book review: Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine

March 29, 2020

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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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Unintended consequences, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags artificial intelligence, AI, Hannah Fry
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Book review: Leaders Eat Last

March 27, 2020

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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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Reviews Tags book review, Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last, leadership, ICT leadership
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Click the cover to see the book on Amazon (Amazon Associate link)

Book Review: Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America

March 23, 2020

Don’t let the country-specific title put you off. This is a very useful (and readable) book.

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In Bookshelf, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags fake news, Fake news, media literacy, digital media literacy, Goering, Thomas
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Click the cover to see the book on Amazon (affiliate link)

Review: The School Fundraising Handbook

March 2, 2020

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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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Reviews Tags review, book review, fundraising, Schools Week

Review: Are Your Kids Naked Online? Updated

February 10, 2020

A book of e-safety advice for parents.

Updated.

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In Bookshelf Tags online safety, e-safety, Safeguarding, Safer Internet Day, book review, book reviews
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Review of Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder

January 8, 2020

I learnt more science from reading this book than I learnt in five years of secondary school.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags science, experiment, book review
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