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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Now is the perfect opportunity to test the proposition that schools are unnecessary. Are kids able to self-motivate, do relevant work at the appropriate level and maintain a good and healthy social life?
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Here are the incredibly annoying things that I’ve heard because people have kept their microphones on during online discussions.
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Around 2007 I had a widget embedded in my blog that enabled me to convert the text to an audio file. That stopped working. I’m trying out another one now, and here are my initial results.
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Has Covid-19 proven that education technology has been an utter failure?
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The use of technology to put classes online makes it even more important for teachers and students in online classes to spend some time getting to know the technology they will be using — even if they think it won’t be a problem for them.
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Should you be feeling bereft because of the absence of new articles on this website, here is some good news.
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I’ve been working from home for several years now, so I thought I would share some strategies I’ve found that work for me. These won’t be entirely relevant if you are now spending most of your time teaching online, but I hope that at least some of these suggestions will help.
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Recently I have been wrestling with my conscience: should I continue to write my usual kind of blog posts, which often assume that teachers reading it are physically in school or some other educational setting, or not?
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I have just published an article that provides both useful advice and a chuckle to everyone who is now having to conduct most or even all of their work online. I hope you enjoy it.
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Jean-Louis Dutaut, the editor of Schools Week, very kindly wrote a testimonial about my work.
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Don’t work for nothing, and don’t expect others to. Be professional!
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Some of the e-safety resources listed here are for adults, some for parents, and others are useful for discussing with (older) students.
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With very insightful commentary on the trends spotted, this report is well worth downloading.
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As well as education technology and related matters, I also write about writing.
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An interesting variation on the story-telling app.
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I have my doubts about whether building a 3d model is helpful beyond a certain age, but it has a certain appeal.
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Some time ago I compiled a list of ways in which pupils could be unsafe online. The list was extremely long….
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UPDATED! Constraints may not always be a bad thing, and sometimes can even be positively advantageous.
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