Another barrier to entry — but one that can be easily resolved.
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Students working, by Terry Freedman
11 things to do in 5 minutes in your computer lessons
What can your students do in the odd five minutes in computing lessons? Here are eleven suggestions.
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Review: New Media in the Classroom: Rethinking Primary Literacy
This provides a great deal of information about the different aspects of "literacy” and how digital tools can be brought into the service of literacy in the primary school.
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This book takes you through the process of designing connected devices from prototyping to launching. In doing so it considers prototyping embedded, physical and online devices, types of business model, techniques for writing code and ethical considerations. It's biggest drawback, of course, is that it was published twelve years ago. software, programming and technology have moved on since then. So, potentially worth reading for the principles, but perhaps not so much for the practical aspects.
Review: Designing the internet of things
This book takes you through the process of designing connected devices from prototyping to launching.
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Presentation on a mobile phone, by Terry Freedman
Revisited: Actually, it IS about the technology (partly)
“It’s not about the technology” sounds logical, but in my experience it is certainly not the whole story.
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Review: Amazing Worlds
A very good showcase for what can be achieved from a partnership between imagination and AI.
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Review: Understanding the digital world: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
Although the subject matter sounds as dry as dust, the author has managed to make it really interesting. Everything is described and explained in plain English.
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Quick look: The Teachers' Standards in Primary Schools
This is very well set out. It takes each standard, and gives you ideas on how to achieve it, and what success in this context looks like.
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Quick look: How Computer Games Help Children learn
When I was teaching Econnures I realised that I could have taught quite a chunk of the synabus if I'd been able to run Sim City on the school network.
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Quick look: Tubes: Behind the scenes at the internet
We are all so accustomed to using the internet, searching the world wide web — "going online" — that most of us most of the time probably do not stop to consider the question: yes, but where exactly is it?
Read MoreNon-constructive proof and coding
A mathematical approach to solving a problem without actually doing anything about it.
Read MoreThe stimulating classroom (Updated)
How can technology help to make your classroom a vibrant, exciting place of learning?
Read MoreFollowing instructions is usually a good idea
I asked Claude to convert a pdf flyer into an HTML format I could insert into a Markdown block in Squarespace. Here’s the result…
Read MoreMy mate Claude
I’ve been experimenting with using artificial intelligence apps to help me format documents. Here is a description of the process I went through.
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Oulipo flyer screenshot, by Terry Freedman
I used Claude to help me write a blurb for my course
In a couple of weeks’ time I shall be teaching a course called Creative Writing Using Constraints, at the City Lit in London. I felt that the blurb on the City Lit’s website was a bit mundane. So I got AI to write a better one.
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clock. by Terry Freedman
No such thing as a loose end
What can your students do in the odd five minutes in computing lessons? Here are ten suggestions.
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Terry's desk, drawn by Terry Freedman
How I used Notebooklm for writing a blog post
I was recently commissioned to write a blog post for an organisation. They gave me loads of stuff in different formats to draw on. Here’s how I coped!
Read MoreAI Cynicism #2
An AI expert recently advised people to just subscribe to the premium version of one of the AI apps, rather than waste time hopping between several free ones all the time. Hmmm….
Read MoreAI Cynicism #1
I came across a “resource” recently that consists of hundreds of “ready-to-wear” AI prompts.
Read MoreUsing fiction as a vehicle for discussing technology
How might you use fiction as a vehicle for teaching computational thinking? Here are some ideas.
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