An interesting look at how differently societies across the globe view and use technlogogy.
Read MoreReview: The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
The written word has endured for millennia, and herein you'll discover why.
Read MoreReview: Craftland: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
A book that offers a glimpse into the way traditional crafts were practised before the Industrial Revolution.
Read MoreQuick look: Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters
Chapters look at how technology is used around the world, online communities, and building a culturally just infrastucture, amongst other topics.
Read MoreQuick look: Artificially Gifted: Notes from a Post-Genius World
The author, Mechelle Gilford, explores how AI may render our usual way of interpreting the concept of “gifted” obsolete.
Read MoreQuick look: Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives
Dr Bot discusses something I hadn’t really considered…
Read MoreReview: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition
Rovelli draws readers into his world by describing the development of theories that scientists have posited to try and explain our world and the universe beyond.
Read MoreReview: Dear Data
The authors spent a year sending each other postcards on a different theme each week, with pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read MoreReview: Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity
What place might Blueprints merit on a teacher’s bookshelves?
Read MoreReview: Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World
This book could prove useful to schools keen to cultivate their own dedicated ‘back to nature’ area.
Read MoreReview: Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home
A couple of generations before the first internet cafés were opened, someone attempted pretty much the same thing by opening a ‘radio café’.
Read MoreReview: Level Up Your Lesson Plans: Ignite the Joy of Learning with Fun and Educational Materials
This book is awash with ideas.
Read MoreReview: Conversations With Third Reich Contemporaries: : From Luke Holland’s Final Account
This may be useful for the Hiostory department in your school.
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Quick look: My boss is a moron
I borrowed this book from the library yesterday and have had to stop reading it.
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Review: The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic
I was surprised to read some of the clearest explanations of neuroscience I've yet come across.
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Review: The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
In Wren's telling, the real history of the news isn't just a chronology of technological inventions.
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Review: Nature's Memory
One would think that the stories told by the exhibits in natural history museums are reasonably objective and factual, but apparently not.
Read MoreQuick looks: Listen in: How radio changed the home
Back in the 1930s, radio was the cutting edge technology in the home.
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Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce
What does it take to become an expert? And what can the Computing teacher do about it?
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A book review for your English department colleagues perhaps
Some of these stories are so richly told, it can almost seem as though you’re right there with him.
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