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conference session, by Terry Freedman

What I Look For in a Conference revisited

December 28, 2023

I attend a lot of conferences, and over the years I've developed a useful set of criteria by which to evaluate them. Here, then, in no particular order, are my top 14 characteristics of a good conference.

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In News & views Tags conference, conferences, kids at conferences

8 Reasons educators should blog

December 28, 2023

I think everyone involved in education should have a blog! Here, in no particular order, are my reasons.

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In News & views, Professional development Tags blogging, rreasons to blog, why blog

Pragmatism (Updated!)

December 27, 2023

Updated! It’s fine being a visionary, but somewhere along the line someone has to actually do something.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags miracles, pragmatist, pragmatism

On this day: 27 December 2019 and 2022

December 27, 2023

On the ICT & Computing in Education blog I had one of my peridodic digs at politicians. Over on my Eclecticism newsletter I wrote about my writing process.

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In Blast from the past, From the Archives Tags on this day

From a spreadsheet created by Terry Freedman

AI gave me a sense of bereavement

December 20, 2023

A few years ago at a conference, an erstwhile colleague who was giving the keynote presentation referred to “My ex-colleague Terry Freedman, the Excel guru.” While flattering, it was more the case that I made a great deal of use of, at the time, Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications.

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18 Essential Elements of a Digital Financial Literacy Course

December 11, 2023

Here are my 18 suggestions for inclusion on a digital financial literacy course. This is an update of an article first published in 2011.

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In News & views Tags digital financial literacy, digital safety, e-safety, financial literacy, safeguarding

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Review: From EdTech to PedTech (excerpt)

December 10, 2023

Those of us who have held responsibility for embedding digital technology across a school will all have tales of well-meaning management who, frankly, didn’t have a clue.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags edtech, pedtech, pedagogy, reviews

History class. Photo by Terry Freedman

Banal projects

December 7, 2023

Boring projects are the worst kind of thing to give students. My way of thinking is simple: if you can’t think of anything exciting, get them to come up with something themselves.

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In Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags projects
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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