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Learn something new, and have a good laugh, with Digital Education! Photo from Stencil. Licence: CC0

Learn something new, and have a good laugh, with Digital Education! Photo from Stencil. Licence: CC0

What's in the next issue of Digital Education?

October 17, 2017

The forthcoming issue of the Digital Education ezine features 9 interesting articles. This article gives you the lowdown on three of the topics covered, and how to sign up to it.

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In Digital Education, News & views Tags Digital Education, girls, badges, books, photos
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In the next issue of Digital Education

September 20, 2017

Algorithms, book reviews and review copies of my book. All in the latest issue of Digital Education.

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In Digital Education, News & views Tags Digital Education
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Women and girls and technology: a matter of biology?

September 20, 2017

Are girls and women biologically predetermined to not be natural programmers? No, I don't think so either. This article contains some interesting points based on recent discussions, and links to (hopefully) useful articles.

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In Computing, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Digital Education Tags girls, women in computing, women in technology, Google, biology, gender
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Why recipes are a poor way of teaching algorithms -- and why they're not

September 12, 2017

Recipes as algorithms is one of the themes I'll be exploring in the next issue of Digital Education, which will be out soon.

Other themes include 'Is educational research worth the paper it's written on?' and much, much more.

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In Digital Education, Computing, News & views Tags algorithms, recipes, Research, Educational research, dDigital Education
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The latest Digital Education newsletter

August 16, 2017

Exclusive article about the forthcoming changes in the EU's data protection laws, pseudoscience (?), biological determinism, back to school resources and more are in the current issue of the Digital Education newsletter. 

Read on for the full list of contents of this free newsletter.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags Digital Education
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Digital Education newsletter: what's in the next issue?

August 11, 2017

There's a lot of food for thought in the forthcoming issue of the Digital Education newsletter, plus useful resources and tips. Read on for more information.

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In Digital Education, News & views Tags Digital Education

The Great Training Robbery, Part 13 of 13

August 9, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 12 of 13

August 8, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 11 of 13

August 7, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 10 of 13

August 4, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft
The early August issue of Digital Education is out now!

The early August issue of Digital Education is out now!

Fake news, bad algorithms and drones -- in the latest issue of Digital Education

August 3, 2017

Algorithms are based on maths, and maths is objective, right? You might change your mind about that when you've read Weapons of Math Destruction, which I've been reading.

You can read my review in the latest issue of Digital Education, plus information about drones, fake news, and going back to school after the summer break, plus a good money-saving offer on an online graphics application, plus a bunch of other stuff. Read on for more details and for a sign-up form.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Digital Education

The Great Training Robbery, Part 9 of 13

August 3, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

What I've been reading: The Art of People

August 2, 2017

One of the most fundamental of so-called '21st century skills' is surely knowing how to interact with other people. This book contains some interesting strategies, though I am not sure all of them will work in the UK!

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In Bookshelf, Digital Education, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Dave Kerpen, Art of People, book review, review, 21st century skills

The Great Training Robbery, Part 8 of 13

August 2, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

Fake news and FLoSR

August 1, 2017

Why is it that whenever a problem arises in society, some people's first recourse is to say that schools need to deal with it? And in the context of fake news, what can media organisations do to address the issue?

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In Digital Education, News & views, Thinking aloud Tags fake news, FLoSR

The Great Training Robbery, Part 7 of 13

August 1, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 7 of 13

August 1, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 6 of 13

July 31, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 5 of 13

July 28, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 4 of 13

July 27, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft
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