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There’s nothing like a good book — except maybe several good books! Photo by Elijah Hail on Unsplash Licence: CC0

There’s nothing like a good book — except maybe several good books! Photo by Elijah Hail on Unsplash Licence: CC0

14 ways to keep on being a learner

September 27, 2018

Learning is necessary, useful and pleasurable! Here are 14 suggestions for continuing to learn, ranging from some pretty easy almost costless ways to a major commitment. Hopefully there’s something for everyone in this article.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development Tags professional development
The Homework Excuse Management System, by Terry Freedman

The Homework Excuse Management System, by Terry Freedman

Blast from the past: the homework excuse management system

September 25, 2018

You can use a spreadsheet to solve even relatively trivial problems — but why should you do so?

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In Blast from the past, On the lighter side, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags spreadsheet, HEMS, homework
Yes, OK, I’ll try out the computers, but please leave me alone! Photo by Anh Nguyen on Unsplash

Yes, OK, I’ll try out the computers, but please leave me alone! Photo by Anh Nguyen on Unsplash

Bombarding colleagues with research results regarding ed tech doesn't work

September 21, 2018

Gathering research findings into how beneficial education technology could be, er, beneficial. But there are caveats.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, Research Tags mistakes, 7 mistakes, research
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From Getstencil.com Licence: CC0

This is what all ed tech co-ordinators should do if possible

September 20, 2018

In this new series, I look at 7 mistakes I made as an ICT-Co-ordinator. This first article is more of an omission, with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight!

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development Tags mistakes, 7 mistakes, ICT Co-ordinator, Ed tech co-ordinator
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Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash

Read all about it: what does the research REALLY say?

September 14, 2018

Even if a piece of education research is flawless (which itself is relatively unlikely), experience suggests that it's unlikely to be reported completely accurately, despite journalists' best efforts. Why does this happen?

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, News & views, Professional development, Research Tags newspapers, research, education research

My best IT training days #1: The Science Department

September 13, 2018

As a complement to my series of articles about my worst training days, I’ve started a series about my best ones. I believe we can learn from both sorts. In this article, I relate an experience of running a twilight training session for a secondary school science department.

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In Professional development, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags best IT training, spreadsheets, pivot tables, science department
Scream, by Terry Freedman (with apologies to Edvard Munch)

Scream, by Terry Freedman (with apologies to Edvard Munch)

My Worst IT Training Days #2: Another Internet Training Day

September 11, 2018

It’s always a good thing to stipulate in advance all the things you need in order to run a training session —including even the most basic and obvious ones…

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In Professional development Tags worst IT training
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Photo by sebastiaan stam on Unsplash

How to deal with negative or spam comments on your blog

September 9, 2018

Worried about negative comments on your blog? Here are a few suggestions.

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In News & views Tags comments, comments policy, trolls, don't feed the trolls
Covers of my forthcoming books

Covers of my forthcoming books

Books in progress

September 7, 2018

A progress report on the three books I’m currently working on — and information about a freebie!

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In News & views, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development Tags books, wriiting
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Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash

Fake news, or just poor reporting?

September 6, 2018

Is the reporting of educational research merely poor or, worse, is it just made up? Here are a few notes in advance of my talk at ResearchEd on Saturday 8th September 2018.

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In News & views, Professional development, Research Tags researched, research, education research, newspapers
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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