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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

The Great Training Robbery, Part 3 of 13

July 26, 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 2 of 13

July 25, 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 1 of 13

July 24, 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, the great training robbery and a bunch of other stuff

July 20, 2017

The next issue of the Digital Education will soon be out. Here's a brief guide to what's in it.

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In Bookshelf, Digital Education, Research, News & views Tags Digital Education, Fake news, training, theft

Take part in an education research survey

July 20, 2017

Professor Sarah Younie and her colleagues are undertaking research about, er, research. Do you find educational research useful in your teaching? What would make it more useful? Please take part in a brief survey that is looking into questions like these.

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In News & views, Research Tags Mesh Guides, Sarah Younie, research, Educational research, survey
Photo by Jills, issued on a CC0 licence.

Photo by Jills, issued on a CC0 licence.

The Computing curriculum in England: A timeline of hopes and experience

July 5, 2017

Has the Computing Programme of Study been an unequivocal success? In my article It Wasn’t Me Wot Done It, Sir! The Depressing State Of Computing As A Subject, I said that many students were voting against Computing qualifications with their feet, and also that girls were under-represented. Moreover, I stated that the situation was entirely predictable (many of us indeed had predicted it).

In this article I set out what I see as the key milestones in the journey to where we are now. I have included quotes from the sources, and also given the source in each case so that you can check out the sources yourself. 

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In Computing, History, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Research Tags Computing curriculum, Computing

Coming up in Digital Education

July 3, 2017

The next issue of Digital Education is just about to be published. It includes a chance to get a free book, and a competition. Read on to find out what else is in it.

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

It wasn’t me wot done it, Sir! The depressing state of Computing as a subject

June 30, 2017

Here in England, students are voting with their feet: the numbers studying Computing at higher levels are going down. I hate to say "We told you so" but....

It's not as if nobody warned 'them'.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views Tags Computing, Computing curriculum, Computing Programme of Study

Making the Computing curriculum interesting

June 29, 2017

The Computing curriculum doesn't have to sound boring and nothing but coding. 

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In Big ideas, Computing, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Computing, Andrew Morrish, curriculum

How to get the most out of ISTE17 (and other conferences)

June 23, 2017

Listen to my interview with Vicki Davis about how to get the most out of #iste17 and other conferences -- and grab my book for £0.99/$0.99 or equivalent (plus VAT if applicable) -- a third of its usual price.

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In Bookshelf, Interview, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, News & views Tags 10 minute teacher podcast, Coolcatteacher, Vicki Davis, ISTE17, conferences

Today's ed tech to-do list

June 22, 2017

What's my day looking like so far? Main item on my to-do list: don't die from the heat. My most-looking forward to item? Writing the latest issue of my newsletter.

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In News & views Tags diary, to-do list, CV, resume

Deciding what ed tech to buy: who ya gonna call?

June 21, 2017

What does the latest research from Besa tell us about who schools listen to when it comes to ed tech product recommendations?

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In News & views, Research Tags Besa, ICT report, Ed Yech report, evaluations, reviews

Where's the ed tech action? Maybe under your nose!

June 20, 2017

Not everything is a million miles away or up in the cloud, when it comes to education technology.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Professional development Tags Hub Central, Lab Central, local, hyperlocal
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