A week or so ago we were chatting to a neighbour. She said she thinks her daughter, who looked about six years old, should learn how to code, as that’s the future. Didn’t I agree? I’m afraid I said that didn’t.
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One of the few good things about the emphasis on ‘coding’ now is that as most people acknowledge that they know nothing about it, they leave the people teaching it in peace.
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*UPDATED* What are the attributes of a good ICT and Computing scheme of work? Here's the list of characteristics I've always looked for.
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This resource comprises a number of prompts to kickstart a discussion in your classroom about AI and its effects in society.
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Boring projects are the worst kind of thing to give students. My way of thinking is simple: if you can’t think of anything exciting, get them to come up with something themselves.
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It’s almost unheard of for me to read advertorials or sponsored posts, especially when the words “Advertisement” appears in small print somewhere other than the headline. But the title made me curious.
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What makes an excellent ICT or Computing lesson? In this document I've tried to encapsulate the answer to that question.
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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.
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If I had to choose just one causal factor to focus on, as to why students find ICT lessons boring, it would be the start of the lesson.
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I will be running another online course in blogging in the evenings of the 17th and 24th November 2023.
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Here are some resources/links you might find useful for Ada Lovelace Day. I think it’s a good idea to not think just in terms of the day itself, but of how you can build on it for future lessons.
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A couple of people and I started to discuss how we might use technology to process a block of text.
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Spaces and learning; spaces should be designed according to the kind of learning that people would like to experience in them.
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In this article I bring my AI experiment to its logical conclusion. I’ve asked AI to create personas for my blog, asked it to suggest some article titles, and selected an article and asked it to write an outline of points to be covered. In this article, I asked it to write the article.
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In preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this phase I used a blog outline generator.
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In preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In the first part I used ChatGPT to develop a few personas, ie representatives of my target readership. In this article I report on using AI to generate ideas for blog posts.
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In preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this first part I report on using ChatGPT to create a few personas.
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A development that I think is potentially interesting is the embedding of generative AI in the tools we already use.
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I checked if my websites had been scraped, and this what I discovered…
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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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