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Review: The Art of Uncertainty (two reviews in one)

March 5, 2025

The Computing department would find the section on facial recognition interesting, because apart from possible ethical concerns, the fact is that even if the system has high accuracy, most of its identifications will be wrong.

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Review: The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism (two reviews in one!)

March 5, 2025

I was intrigued to discover that a popular news magazine of the sixties had been anticipated by Defoe.

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Quick look: AI For Educators

February 14, 2025

There are some good ideas here, especially for prompts.

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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich -- Extended review

February 4, 2025

Nearly a hundred years after the Nazi phenomenon people are still asking the question: how could apparently ordinary or, in some cases, highly cultured, people commit such terrible crimes.

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Education book reviews of 2024

January 15, 2025

This pdf contains the reviews of mine that were published in Teach Secondary magazine in 2024.

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Review: Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

October 7, 2024

It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.

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Review: Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry

October 7, 2024

Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...

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Review: Making Sense Of Chaos – A Better Economics for a Better World

September 20, 2024

Before you rush off on the grounds that this book has nothing to do with Computing, let me reassure you that it does.

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Bjork & Bjork’s Desirable Difficulties in Action

September 19, 2024

The original work on which this volume is based has perhaps been honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

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Review: Coderspeak – The language of computer programmers

September 18, 2024

This book won’t necessarily help a student pass a computing exam, but it will almost certainly make them a more aware, and thus better, programmer.

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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.

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Quick look: Desirable difficulties in action

July 17, 2024

The idea of desirable difficulties has always appealed to me. In my teaching I’m partticularly in favour of applying Vygotsky’s concept of the zone of proximal development.

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Review: The Collaboration Book – 41 Ideas for Working Better

June 27, 2024

Most people would agree that collaboration is a good thing – so how can we collaborate more effectively in school settings?

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In Bookshelf, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Reviews Tags collaboration, reviews

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Review: Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

June 25, 2024

This book might not directly address obvious aspects of the music curriculum, but it can certainly give teachers access to a rich seam of facts and anecdotes with which to embellish their lessons.

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Review of Destination Time Travel, by Steve Nallon

May 17, 2024

A book on temporal adventures may seem like an odd inclusion here, but it can actually be used in many ways.

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Review: The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI, by Justin Hutchens

May 17, 2024

AI might not be ‘intelligent’ in the strictest sense – but it can certainly appear to be, which is almost as worrying.

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Review of Tips for teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching

May 16, 2024

Don’t let this book’s size (nearly 600 pages) put you off. It’s comprehensive, and very well structured and laid out.

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Quick looks: The collaboration book

March 20, 2024

I’ve just sent Teach Secondary magazine my review of this book, so I can’t say much before that’s published.

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Review: The Book at war

February 19, 2024

The Book at War is a fascinating study of how books and other reading matter have variously influenced politics, propaganda and history over time.

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Review: Iterate: The secret to innovation in schools

February 16, 2024

Having endured some fairly dreadful ‘initiatives’ in my time, delivered from on high with the directive to ‘make it work’, I approached Iterate with some trepidation.

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