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Some notes on failing in ICT and Computing

May 15, 2025

Failure seems to be the zeitgeist  at the moment. How should schools deal with students’ mistakes?

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In News & views, Unintended consequences Tags failure

Rules of Engagement Updated

May 15, 2025

Do we need gimmicks, new-fangled techniques to keep kids engaged in lessons?

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In News & views Tags AfL, assessment for learning, classroom experiment

Archival

May 4, 2025

I’ve created a special area of the Digital Educatioon Supplement, which is an online supplement to my newsletter, Digital Education.

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In News & views, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags archive

Why I (almost) never revise old blog posts

April 30, 2025

One of the reasons I keep a blog is that it is still a great way of finding out what I think about things.

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In Reflections, News & views, Professional development Tags old blog posts, blogging

Digital literacy is about asking the right questions Updated

April 29, 2025
All the toothpaste you actually needBeing digitally literate is not just about knowing how to use programs or being aware of copyright law. It’s also about being able to ask the right questions. This is another reason to have a news section in your Computing lessons
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In News & views Tags DNA, News, digital literacy, toothbrush

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The trouble with Substack

April 16, 2025

There is a lot I like about Substack, but…

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In News & views Tags Substack
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Conference: Next steps for AI in Education in England

April 9, 2025

Last year I attended and reported on a similarly-named conference. The Westminster Forum is running another one this year.

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In AI, News & views Tags aI, Westminster Forum

Competition deadline situation: imminent

April 4, 2025

This collection of work by Gay Talese is utterly brilliant, and contains items that haven’t seen the light of day in a long time.

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In News & views Tags competition, deadline, Talese

On this day: Hazardous Environments

April 4, 2025

Hazardous environments: I like to think of this as being a metaphor for any situation in which one is challenged.

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In News & views, Blast from the past, On this day Tags challenge, challenges, hazardous environment, levels, skills
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An unrestricted link

March 26, 2025

Last week I announced a competition to win a copy of A Town Without Time, the new collection of work by Gay Talese. Here is the link again, this time with an unrestricted link!

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In News & views Tags A town without time, Gay Talese, Competition

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The DfE's foray into AI for education: the good news and the (potentilly) bad news

March 20, 2025

We don’t have very long to wait before the educational AI projects funded by the Department for Education are unveiled, if all goes to plan. But I have some concerns.

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In Assessment, AI, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views Tags AI, assessment, DfE

Questions, by Terry Freedman

What is 'mastery'?

March 18, 2025

The devil is in the detail, and the subject is not apolitical.

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In News & views Tags National Curriculum review, mastery

Quick look: Bad Education

March 18, 2025

Goodwin covers the reasons he left academia, scholars, students and the system. Then he proposes some solutions.

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In Quick Looks, News & views Tags quick look, universities, Goodwin, review
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My lesson was inspected and all things tech went wrong

March 5, 2025

I have long been of the opinion that inspectors should just drop in, unannounced.

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In News & views Tags inspection, observation

The 60 MInute Writer

December 2, 2024

My course at the City Lit.

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In News & views Tags creative writing, course

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A news update

November 7, 2024

Here are a few items that I hope will be of interest to you.

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In News & views Tags news

Blogger, by Terry Freedman

Writing for blogs

October 11, 2024

Every so often I read some pundit, or usually a journalist pretending to be a pundit, suggesting that blogs are dead. What can I say? They’re not.

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In Discussion topic, News & views Tags blogs, blogging

Reflections: What's the point of book reviews?

October 7, 2024

So many authors think they ought to be the recipient of the Nobel prize for literature.

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In News & views, Backlist, Blast from the past, From the Archives, Discussion topic Tags book reviews, book reviewing

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Success redefined

August 27, 2024

I’ve been thinking about definitions of success recently.

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In News & views, Discussion topic Tags success

I was a teenage geek (Updated)

April 15, 2024

One day when I was 15, I was milling around in this youth club trying to look cool, when someone came up to me and asked me if I’d be interested in joining a cinematography club. I’d never touched a cine camera in my life.

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In Autobiography, News & views Tags club, computer club, computing, consultation, geek, Computing Programme of Study
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