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I prefer a malignant super computer to a benificent one

May 31, 2024

Imagine being in the situation where your kitchen won't allow you to rustle up an egg in case you burn yourself.

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In AI, Discussion topic Tags AI, artificial intelligence, singularity

From online to offline: how I prepared for one of my courses

May 28, 2024

In the Digital Education Supplement there is a document about how to convert an offline course to an online one. This is the inverse of that process in some ways.

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In Tips for teachers Tags course preparation

Review of Destination Time Travel, by Steve Nallon

May 17, 2024

A book on temporal adventures may seem like an odd inclusion here, but it can actually be used in many ways.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Discussion topic Tags Destination Time Travel, time travel, Steve Nallon, reviews

Review: The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI, by Justin Hutchens

May 17, 2024

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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In AI, Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, e-safety, Deception, Hutchens, AI, Artificial Intelligence

Review of Tips for teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching

May 16, 2024

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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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags teaching ideas, reviews

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Money, money, money -- again

May 2, 2024

This is an updated version of an article I published on my writing website in 2015. In my experience, it absolutely applies to artists, teachers and other creatives as well as writersor consultants.

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In Discussion topic Tags remuneration, money

Snowball, by Terry Freedman

I don't like ice-breakers

May 1, 2024

One of the more unfortunate effects of lockdown and its concomitant requirement of online learning is the application of different kinds of ice-breaker. To be fair, most ice-breaker activities leave me cold…

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In Discussion topic Tags ice-breakers
Recent book reviews
Review: Social Media for Academics
Review: Social Media for Academics

This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!

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Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example
Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

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Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.

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Review: The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History
Review: The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History

In some respects one could view this book as a single warning repeated 64 times.

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Review: The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street 
Review: The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street 

Taking readers from the Middle Ages to (more or less) the present day, Gray charts how the places where we do our shopping and what we buy have changed over the centuries.

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Review: Extraordinary Learning For All
Review: Extraordinary Learning For All

As a source of potential ideas and inspiration, the book could be very useful indeed.

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Review: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
Review: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

One has the impression that the main role of the university these days is to maximise profit, while that of the majority of teaching staff is to ensure the ‘correct’ views are passed on to students. All the while, students’ main concern seems to be to seek protection from anything that might make them feel unsafe.

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Review: Next Practices - An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers
Review: Next Practices - An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers

Is a 2014 book on managing the computing provision in a school still worth buying?

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Still relevant (sadly): How to lie with statistics, by Darrell Huff
Still relevant (sadly): How to lie with statistics, by Darrell Huff

Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.

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Quick looks: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them
Quick looks: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

It was a great source of pride to me, getting hundreds of students through their A levels and encouraging them to go to university. But for some time I have asked myself a question: would I recommend this route now?

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