We like to believe that meritocracy is a good thing, in that it rewards effort, and acts as a great leveller. Is that actually the case?
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Review of Computing and Related Qualifications
Bob Harrison writes: “We have a computing curriculum and suite of qualifications which neither meet the needs of all pupils nor the needs of a rapidly evolving digital workplace and world.”
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Review of Dear Data
This book covers an immense range of the kinds of data that we ‘store’. The authors spent a year sending each other weekly, themed postcards. These contained not words, but pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read More5 Must-have conference apps UPDATED
If you go to at least one conference a year, you should consider using one or more of these apps.
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Think outside the box, photo by Terry Freedman
Tony Parkin's "Non-review" of the Bee Digital Marketing to Schools Summit 2019
“Disruptive technologist” Tony Parkin has performed a valuable service by collating the tweets relating to the recent Marketing to Schools Summit. Here is a link to his round-up.
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Print Friendly. Screenshot by Terry Freedman
Review of Print Friendly
The layout of articles on some websites may be beautiful on screen, but make it a nightmarish experience to print the articles out. Print Friendly is a good solution to this problem.
Read MoreReview of Bee Digital's Marketing to Schools Summit
What is the Marketing to Schools Summit, and what was good, and not so good, about it?
Read MoreReview: Trust me, I'm lying
In TMIL, Holiday demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate the news. A must-read for teachers of media or digital literacy.
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newsguard toolbar shield, screenshot by Terry Freedman
Review of Newsguard
Newsguard is a service that rates websites for honesty, transparency and trustworthiness. It evaluates websites against several criteria, such as whether information is gathered and presented responsibly. A browser extension will enable you to see at a glance whether or a not a site they have evaluated is trustworthy.
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Quick look: Hello World
Hello World, by Hannah Fry, offers an interesting perspective on some of the problems besetting artificial intelligence algorithms.
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Review of The Science of Learning
This book aims to solve the difficulties teachers face in accessing educational research through the approach of presenting each research study as a double-page spread.
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Imaginary Cityscape, photographed by Terry Freedman
Review of Imaginary Cities
The Imaginary Cities exhibition at the British Library is an interesting merger of art and programming. Here are my thoughts on it.
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Quick looks: Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America
This is a very interesting, thought-provoking and readable book. I’ve only read 25% so far, but it’s looking good so far.
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What I've been reading: Offline
Why do many people seem to be addicted to their smartphones? This book explains how we get drawn in to constantly checking for updates, and suggests what we might do about it.
Read More8 podcasts for primary school teachers
The headline is a bit of a misnomer: in fact, there are 7 podcasts for teachers and one for kids. But that would have made for a pretty awkward title!
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Filming in progress, by Terry Freedman
10 video channels for Computing teachers
UPDATED Here are ten video channels of potential interest to teachers of Computing.
Read More10 podcasts for Computing teachers
UPDATED Here are ten podcasts that will help you understand more about computing or give you some ideas of things you can discuss in your lessons
Read MoreBook review: Excel 2019 Bible
I recently received this massive tome, the Excel 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
Read MoreBook review: Access 2019 Bible
I recently received this hefty volume, the Access 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
Read MoreBook review: How to think like a coder
This book aims to teach you how to think like a coder, rather then merely learning how to code. How far does it succeed?
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