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!
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 8 of 13
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.
Read MoreFake news and FLoSR
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?
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 7 of 13
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 7 of 13
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 6 of 13
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 5 of 13
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.
Read More8 Possible Reasons Your Educational Technology is Underused
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 4 of 13
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 3 of 13
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 2 of 13
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.
Read MoreThe Great Training Robbery, Part 1 of 13
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.
Read MoreFake news, the great training robbery and a bunch of other stuff
The next issue of the Digital Education will soon be out. Here's a brief guide to what's in it.
Read MoreTake part in an education research survey
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.
Read MoreReview of FotoJet
Fotojet is an online design application. Here's what I thought of it.
Read MoreA rubric for assessment? What a joke!
A lighthearted look at rubrics as a form of assessment.
Read MoreComputing Curriculum Conundrum: an analogy
A comic strip that, for me at least, encapsulates what has befallen the Computing curriculum in England.
Read More
Photo by Jills, issued on a CC0 licence.
The Computing curriculum in England: A timeline of hopes and experience
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.
Read MoreDroning on: Review of Drones in Education
What a fascinating idea: using drones as part of the curriculum. This book tells you much of what you need to know.
Read MoreComing up in Digital Education
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.
Read More