I’ve called today’s rule the rule of eclecticism because it’s about learning from different, and disparate, disciplines.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #2 The rule of detailed analysis (Updated)
Anyone who voluntarily leaps off a board which is 10 metres high – imaging three double-decker buses stacked on top of each other with a car balancing on top – has to be nuts. That’s not me saying that, but Leon Taylor…
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Lessons from the world of sports: #1 The 1% improvement rule (Updated)
Small, perhaps seemingly insignificant, improvements can make a big difference.
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Screenshot of part of the People Database, by Terry Freedman
An interesting way to make use of pivot tables
Pivot tables help you to see possible questions that might otherwise have remained hidden.
Read MoreAmazon Study
Amazon has launched Amazon Study. It comprises free resources in maths and science for different age groups.
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4 things to bear in mind when using Google Classrooms as a teacher
These are the things I’ve discovered from personal experience.
Read MoreFeedback From A Course Called Writing The Oulipo
It’s been estimated that if you were to read one a minute for 24 hours a day it would take you around 200 million years to get through them all.
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Authentic Learning and Education Technology
To the casual listener, stride piano, boogie woogie piano and rock-n-roll piano all sound pretty much the same. Yet Fats Waller, perhaps the most famous stride pianist, detested boogie woogie. And nobody could deny the hint of menace in Long John Baldry’s voice as he sings his song....
Read MoreDon’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock-n-roll!
The state of Computing
Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education) has published its first report in ages into Computing as a subject. I've summarised the findings, and added some links and comments on my own in italics.
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Printing press, by Terry Freedman
Introducing teachers to desktop publishing
When I started at a school where part of my role was to encourage other teachers to use the education technology facilities, one of the strategies I used was to produce fake news stories using the school’s desktop publishing software.
Read MoreReview: The Self-Taught Computer Scientist: The beginner’s guide to data structures & algorithms
As its name suggests, this book is aimed at those who want to teach themselves computer science.
Read MoreThe Government’s Online Safety Bill – good news matters, but what else needs to be considered?
Mark Bentley shares his views on the Government’s Online Safety Bill.
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You don’t need an arrangement as elaborate as this! Photo: Press Association newsroom, by Terry Freedman
5 reasons to have a Computing news section of your lessons (Updated)
One of the ways in in which you can help enliven the Computing curriculum is to allocate some time in every lesson (yes, every lesson) to news. There are several reasons for this.Bett Bulletin (sort of): A new version of 2Publish is coming from 2Simple
Here is some news about an update to a program that enables children to write something and illustrate it. It was demonstrated at Bett.
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Bett20, by Terry Freedman
Bett Bulletin: Life-sized augmented reality
Discovery Education has launched an AR app called SandboxAR. It makes things appear life-sized, and the LGfL is involved, providing content.
Read MoreHead of department notes: who are the key people?
Is the most important person in your school or team is the one who has the key to the stationery cupboard?
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On this day: reasons to use education technology in lessons
Sometimes you need to convince colleagues to think about using educational technology in their lessons, or to identify where in their scheme of work they could incorporate it.
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Review: A student’s guide to Python for physical modelling
The book’s primary concern is enabling Python to be used for manipulating and plotting large datasets, dealing with image “noise” and other advanced topics.
Read MoreQuick look: Book Wars
As its subtitle indicates, Book Wars covers the analogue and digital battlefield in the world of books.
Read More"Facilitators" or "guides on the side"? No thanks
When the Computing Programme of Study was introduced in England, some people seriously suggested that the lack of suitably qualified teachers (i.e. not able to understand computing concepts or to do computer programming) was not a problem because classes could have “facilitators” instead.
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