Can technology have a beneficial effect on mental health and wellbeing?
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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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Review: Learning Theories for Everyday Teaching
Is this book useful as a quick way in to educational research that’s relevant to classroom practice?
Read MoreReview: The Fourth Education Revolution
Will robots and AI take over from teachers?
Read MoreBook review: The Meritocracy Trap
I’ve gone slightly off-topic with this book review, but I thought it provided an interesting thesis which may be useful to consider as part of bigger picture than only technology.
Read MoreBook review: 50 Teaching and Learning Approaches
Can a book that summarises educational theories in a series of vignettes be a substitute for in-depth study?
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How reliable is neuroscience?
If 10% of studies in neuroscience are flawed, how can you know which ones are OK?
Read MoreWords are important because they have connotations
You could imbibe the entire day’s news just by reading the first paragraph of each article in the newspaper. But what you would miss out on is any nuance or deep explanation. Unfortunately, when research in ed tech is reported in news outlets, the nuances and caveats, and useful information like sample size, are lost as well.
Read More7 insights from nudge theory
An interesting experiment was carried out a few years ago in the USA. A school sent out postcards to parents simply asking them to improve their child’s attendance.
Read MoreBook review: Talk Triggers
Talk Triggers is a word-of-mouth marketing guide with a difference: lots of examples of success stories, but also a logical analysis of why they worked.
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Book review: Teachers vs Tech?
Two cheers for this well-researched book. If I were still a head of department in a school I would buy a copy or two to lend to interested colleagues, especially NQTs, despite my criticisms.
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Covid19: Document it!
Looking on the bright side, if you have started teaching your classes online, or setting work for your pupils online, this forced closure of many schools is a great opportunity to carry out some research.
Read MoreBook review: Little Quick Fix: Find the theme in your data
How do you find out what main themes are coming through your qualitative research data? In short, how can you see the wood for the trees? This is the issue which this book addresses
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How Germs Spread: a new MeshGuide
This is a timely guide on how germs spread — and how to teach good practice to children.
Read MoreBett2020: Eye Gaze UPDATED!
A short account of a talk about Eye Gaze, which helps teachers to know what pupils with PMLD are looking at, and what they are ignoring.
Read MoreArticles about AI in the media
Journalism in the field of AI: is it biased?
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Research reading, by Terry Freedman
Teaching Computing: What the research says
What do we know about the pedagogy of teaching Computing? Do teachers spot students’ misconceptions? Can general principles of instruction be applied to the teaching of Computing? Plus other interesting questions.
Read MoreReport on the Edusummit 2019 conference
The Edusummit conference has a different format from most. This is a report on the conference, which will be publishing a call to action and an ebook of papers in the near future.
Read MoreComputing and computing-related qualifications
Here in England the Government, in its quest to put Computing on the map, did its best to make sure the rest of the map was blank – by getting rid of qualifications that lots of students took (especially girls).
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Robot made of Lego, at John Lewis, Photo by Terry Freedman