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The future of AI in Education: notes on a Westminster Education Forum Conference

September 30, 2024

A few months ago I attended a Westminster Education Forum about the use of AI in Education. I spent quite some time going through the transcript and making notes, but then I thought: why not use AI to do the work?

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In AI, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence, Westminster Education Forum

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Quick look: The Art of Uncertainty: How to navigate chance, ignorance, risk and luck

September 26, 2024

The first thing that struck me is that it is quite readable.

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In Quick Looks Tags Art of Uncertainty, Bayesian, quick look

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Quick look: Hitler's People

September 24, 2024

Yes, I know that this has nothing (ostensibly at least) to do with ICT or Computing, but I thought it might be an interesting book in general, and for history teachers in particular.

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In History, Quick Looks Tags Hitler's People, quick looks

Review: Making Sense Of Chaos – A Better Economics for a Better World

September 20, 2024

Before you rush off on the grounds that this book has nothing to do with Computing, let me reassure you that it does.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, chaos, economics

Bjork & Bjork’s Desirable Difficulties in Action

September 19, 2024

The original work on which this volume is based has perhaps been honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, Desirable difficulties

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Review: Coderspeak – The language of computer programmers

September 18, 2024

This book won’t necessarily help a student pass a computing exam, but it will almost certainly make them a more aware, and thus better, programmer.

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In Bookshelf, Computing, Reviews Tags reviews, Coderspeak

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Using AI to mark students' work: postscript

September 16, 2024

I didn’t think AI's answer was good enough. I didn’t ask how ethical the proposals were. I asked it to mark an Economics essay.

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In AI, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags AI, artificial intelligence, grading, marking, essay-marking

Using AI to mark students' work

September 13, 2024

The Department for Education in England is running a study on how AI might be used for marking work. I thought I’d test AI’s ability to mark a student’s economics essay.

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In AI, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence, marking, essay-marking

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Suggestions for using AI in education

September 11, 2024

I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI. Not for creative writing I should add: I think AI has a long way to go before it will tempt me to eschew the likes of David Foster Wallace, Nabakov or Orwell. But for helping one think and, I’m sure, for admin, I think it’s a game-changer.

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In AI, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence

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EdTech Guide 1: 55 things to do at the start of the school year

September 10, 2024

This guide was first made available to subscribers to Digital Education, my free newsletter.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, EdTech Guide Tags edtech guide, 55, start of year

EdTech Diary: Expectations

September 5, 2024

I want to be able to have as much access to technology when I'm in a school as what I enjoy in my own home. I don't think that is too much to ask, but maybe that's me.

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In From the Archives, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags expectations

Coming soon: 55 things to do at the start of the school year

September 3, 2024

This guide contains 55 suggestions for the head of computing/technology co-ordinator/head of ICT etc to get the new school year off to a flying start. Available NOW for subscribers, or wait a week.

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Getting touchy and feely about Computing -- illustrated

September 3, 2024

Making it possible for students to come face to face with real things from times gone by can have an electrifying effect on them. This is especially so when teaching Computing.

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In Computing Tags Eniac, Science Museum, Difference Engine, Babbage, Ada Lovelace
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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