AI might not be ‘intelligent’ in the strictest sense – but it can certainly appear to be, which is almost as worrying.
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Review of Tips for teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching
Don’t let this book’s size (nearly 600 pages) put you off. It’s comprehensive, and very well structured and laid out.
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From EdTech to PedTech (full review)
Those of us who have held responsibility for embedding digital technology across a school will all have tales of well-meaning management who, frankly, didn’t have a clue.
Read MoreReview: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Who would have thought that a material as commonplace as paper could have such a rich history and profound effect on our lives?
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Review: Once upon a prime
As someone who had little in the way of mathematical prowess at school, I initially opened Prime with some trepidation.
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Review: First Year Teaching
This is the guide I wish I’d had when I started teaching.
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Review: From EdTech to PedTech (excerpt)
Those of us who have held responsibility for embedding digital technology across a school will all have tales of well-meaning management who, frankly, didn’t have a clue.
Read MoreTechnicians – The David Sainsbury Gallery at the Science Museum: full review
Should you ever find yourself in the unlikely circumstance of having to choose between me administering medication or waiting for a paramedic, my advice would be to wait.
Read MoreReview: A Little History of Music by Robert Philip (YUP)
I asked the AI module built in to Squarespace to write a paragraph on why music is relevant to teachers of Computing. Here’s what it said…
Read MoreReview: The Liars of Nature and the nature of liars: Cheating and deception in the living world
The key question at the heart of this book is perhaps this – if honesty is the best policy, why is dishonesty so rife in nature?
Read MoreQuick look: From EdTech to PedTech
Academics tend to write learned articles that, I suspect, are read mainly by other academics, so anything that can translate some of that research into practical advice is to be welcomed.
Read MoreReview: Sensational: A new story of our senses, by Ashley Ward
Research apparently shows we may actually have up to 50 senses, and even that figure isn’t universally agreed upon.
Read MoreReview: The A-Z of Great Classrooms, by Roy Blatchford
I’m personally yet to be convinced by the benefits of dictation, and the idea of teaching English via a cross-curricular approach has been tried with less than satisfactory results. Nevertheless, this is a great source of ideas.
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I was no good at welding either
Review of technicians exhibition
Should you ever find yourself in the unlikely circumstance of having to choose between me administering medication or waiting for a paramedic, my advice would be to wait.
Read MoreReview: Strange Code: Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again
Given how much there already is to cover in the computing curriculum, why spend time exploring programming languages that are, so to speak, way off the beaten track?
Read MoreReview: Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
My review of this book has recently been published in Teach Secondary magazine. I thought some readers might be interested in spotting the differences between the published version, and the copy I submitted.
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Review of the hieroglyphs exhibition
Taking place at the British Museum in London, the exhibition could be used to provide interesting perspectives or links to several subjects — including programming.
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Video by Terry Freedman — nothing to do with the exhibition, but I thought it looked science fictiony.
Review of a science fiction exhibition
There’s a great science fiction exhibition on at the Science Museum in London at the moment — until 4 May 2023. Science |Fiction is a great medium for discussing technology…
Read MoreHow can CHatGPT be used in education? And can it write decent book reviews?
I asked ChatGPT, and here’s what it said…
Read MoreReview: The Science of Learning
Evidence-based education tends to be regarded in much the same way as Oscar Wilde viewed advice: useful for other people.
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