Good customer service is more important than ever now.
Read More(Re) Learn 2020: a new online learning festival
This online conference looks quite interesting. Not all of it seems to concern ed tech, but it might be useful to attend anyway because of the different perspectives of international speakers.
Read MoreOn this day #5: The importance of not being nice
It’s important to be nice — but even more important to be honest. I wrote this article on 10 November 2011, and still think it holds true today.
Read MoreCourse: Writing for blogs: a taster
What is MVT, and why have I adopted the MVT approach?
Read MoreTechnology and wellbeing
Can technology have a beneficial effect on mental health and wellbeing?
Read MoreUPDATED! Should governments concern themselves with education technology?
UPDATED! Do we really want incompetent central administrations getting directly involved in schools’ ed tech?
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Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage. From the British Library. Licence: Public Domain
Ada Lovelace Day
Imagine what Ada Lovelace might have achieved had Babbage actually built his “computer” and she hadn’t died at the age of 36.
Read MoreOn this day #4: Government initiatives
Well, this is very timely. On 12 October 2018 I wrote an article stating that I have grave doubts about governments getting involved in ed tech initiatives because, somehow, they usually mess them up, or at least the initiatives don’t work. Yet now there’s a report calling for more government involvement in ed tech. No thanks!
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Something ain't right, by Terry Freedman
Not planning is such a time-wasting non-activity
As a rule, I am incredibly meticulous when it comes to planning. I will create a detailed checklist, which can sometimes take me a good hour, and then work my way through methodically from start to finish. But not always….
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Tips for Online Teaching, by Terry Freedman
New *Free* ebook: Tips for Online Teaching
This new, potentially prize-winning embodiment of beautiful literature, is now available to subscribers of my Digital Education newsletter. Here’s what the book contains…
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Tips for online teaching
Tips for online teaching: free gift
For the benefit of subscribers to my newsletter, Digital Education, I’ve created a short ebook called Tips for online teaching. It’s available in three versions: PDF, Kindle and ePub.
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Webinar, by Terry Freedman
Department for Education webinars
The Department for Education is running a series of webinars about returning to school.
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World Teachers' Day
What’s the focus of World Teachers’ Day — and week — this year?
Read MoreReasons to have a double opt-in system for newsletters
Ever since I started my newsletter — which is now in its 20th year — I have used a double opt-in system. What does that mean, and why do I do it?
Read MoreWill Bett 21 happen?
For more than 30 years, London has hosted the Bett show, a mega education technology exhibition/conference. Will it go ahead in 2012?
Read MoreOn this day #2: Freedom from constraints
When Academies and Free Schools were announced, the prospect of freedom was alluring — to an extent.
Read MoreThe myth of the unchanging classroom
Is it really true that classrooms haven’t changed since the year 1600?
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Vote for me! By Terry Freedman
Authors of education books earn a fortune!
Is it true that education authors earn a fortune?
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Robot Reporter, by Terry Freedman
Automated writing part 1
The Guardian newspaper has published an article “written” almost entirely by AI. How worried should writers be?
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Footprints -- Covid19, by Terry Freedman
Teachers' experiences in the time of Covid
What has been the experience of teachers during this pandemic? An interim report will be discussed in a couple of virtual symposia.
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