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The latest Digital Education newsletter

August 16, 2017

Exclusive article about the forthcoming changes in the EU's data protection laws, pseudoscience (?), biological determinism, back to school resources and more are in the current issue of the Digital Education newsletter. 

Read on for the full list of contents of this free newsletter.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags Digital Education
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Social media traffic sources: a self-fulfilling prophecy?

August 16, 2017

Where is your website and blog traffic coming from? In this article I discuss the problem of self-fulfilling prophecies, and suggest three ways to find out where your audience is.

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In Computing, News & views, Research Tags social media, traffic sources, analytics

Getting the most out of education conferences

August 15, 2017

This book has received 22 five star reviews in total so far, and is the TESOL Institute's featured book. Read on for more information, and for details on how you can buy a personalised version.

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In Bookshelf, News & views Tags education conferences, TESOL
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Digital Education newsletter: what's in the next issue?

August 11, 2017

There's a lot of food for thought in the forthcoming issue of the Digital Education newsletter, plus useful resources and tips. Read on for more information.

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In Digital Education, News & views Tags Digital Education

The Great Training Robbery, Part 13 of 13

August 9, 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 Elements of a stimulating computing classroom

August 8, 2017

How can you make your computing classroom a vibrant, exciting place of learning?

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Tags environment, classroom environment, Digital Learning Environments

The Great Training Robbery, Part 12 of 13

August 8, 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 11 of 13

August 7, 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 10 of 13

August 4, 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 early August issue of Digital Education is out now!

The early August issue of Digital Education is out now!

Fake news, bad algorithms and drones -- in the latest issue of Digital Education

August 3, 2017

Algorithms are based on maths, and maths is objective, right? You might change your mind about that when you've read Weapons of Math Destruction, which I've been reading.

You can read my review in the latest issue of Digital Education, plus information about drones, fake news, and going back to school after the summer break, plus a good money-saving offer on an online graphics application, plus a bunch of other stuff. Read on for more details and for a sign-up form.

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In Digital Education, News & views, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Digital Education

The Great Training Robbery, Part 9 of 13

August 3, 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

What I've been reading: The Art of People

August 2, 2017

One of the most fundamental of so-called '21st century skills' is surely knowing how to interact with other people. This book contains some interesting strategies, though I am not sure all of them will work in the UK!

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In Bookshelf, Digital Education, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags Dave Kerpen, Art of People, book review, review, 21st century skills

The Great Training Robbery, Part 8 of 13

August 2, 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 and FLoSR

August 1, 2017

Why is it that whenever a problem arises in society, some people's first recourse is to say that schools need to deal with it? And in the context of fake news, what can media organisations do to address the issue?

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In Digital Education, News & views, Thinking aloud Tags fake news, FLoSR

The Great Training Robbery, Part 7 of 13

August 1, 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 7 of 13

August 1, 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
Recent book reviews
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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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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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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

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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