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The Great Training Robbery, Part 6 of 13

July 31, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 5 of 13

July 28, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

8 Possible Reasons Your Educational Technology is Underused

July 27, 2017

If you're the ed tech co-ordinator in your school, and the facilities just aren't being used by other teachers, here are some possible reasons why that's the case.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags ICT facilities, ed tech facilities, leading ICT, use of technology

The Great Training Robbery, Part 4 of 13

July 27, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 3 of 13

July 26, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 2 of 13

July 25, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

The Great Training Robbery, Part 1 of 13

July 24, 2017

What can you do to prevent your training materials being used to run a course -- without your permission or involvement, much less any compensation? This 13 part series suggests a few ideas.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags training, theft

Fake news, the great training robbery and a bunch of other stuff

July 20, 2017

The next issue of the Digital Education will soon be out. Here's a brief guide to what's in it.

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In Bookshelf, Digital Education, Research, News & views Tags Digital Education, Fake news, training, theft

Take part in an education research survey

July 20, 2017

Professor Sarah Younie and her colleagues are undertaking research about, er, research. Do you find educational research useful in your teaching? What would make it more useful? Please take part in a brief survey that is looking into questions like these.

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In News & views, Research Tags Mesh Guides, Sarah Younie, research, Educational research, survey

Review of FotoJet

July 11, 2017

Fotojet is an online design application. Here's what I thought of it.

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In Reviews Tags Fotojet, graphics

A rubric for assessment? What a joke!

July 7, 2017

A lighthearted look at rubrics as a form of assessment.

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Tags rubrics, assessment

Computing Curriculum Conundrum: an analogy

July 6, 2017

A comic strip that, for me at least, encapsulates what has befallen the Computing curriculum in England.

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In Computing, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, On the lighter side, Unintended consequences Tags Curriculum, Computing curriculum
Photo by Jills, issued on a CC0 licence.

Photo by Jills, issued on a CC0 licence.

The Computing curriculum in England: A timeline of hopes and experience

July 5, 2017

Has the Computing Programme of Study been an unequivocal success? In my article It Wasn’t Me Wot Done It, Sir! The Depressing State Of Computing As A Subject, I said that many students were voting against Computing qualifications with their feet, and also that girls were under-represented. Moreover, I stated that the situation was entirely predictable (many of us indeed had predicted it).

In this article I set out what I see as the key milestones in the journey to where we are now. I have included quotes from the sources, and also given the source in each case so that you can check out the sources yourself. 

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In Computing, History, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Research Tags Computing curriculum, Computing

Droning on: Review of Drones in Education

July 4, 2017

What a fascinating idea: using drones as part of the curriculum. This book tells you much of what you need to know.

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In Bookshelf, Computing, Digital Education, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags drones, book reviews, book review

Coming up in Digital Education

July 3, 2017

The next issue of Digital Education is just about to be published. It includes a chance to get a free book, and a competition. Read on to find out what else is in it.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Professional development Tags Digital Education
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This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!

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

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

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