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This article summarises what I’ve learnt about the benefits of hiring outside help like an agency or a consultant, from my experience of doing so and also as (now) an ed tech consultant myself. I hope you find it useful.
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Assessment machine, by Terry Freedman
I’m all in favour of making teachers’ lives easier, but automated essay marking is not the answer.
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Forward 10 places!
If you insist on getting the kids to make or use physical computing kits/robots in the classroom, here arte 8 suggestions for making sure it’s all useful.
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Wait! By Terry Freedman
A lot of Virtual Reality ‘solutions’ I’ve seen are just a massive waste of time and resources.
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Be aware! By Terry Freedman
I’d rather teach pupils to program without going through the intermediary process of building a robot or anything else. Despite all the hype, I regard it as a massive waste of time.
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Big Data, by Terry Freedman
Unless data can be turned into information, what’s the point of collecting it?
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Spreadsheet manual by Terry Freedman
Do you really need software and hardware manuals in school? (Spoiler alert: yes.)
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Terry’s desk, by Terry Freedman
Here are 4 useful bits of news. Topics covered: a forthcoming prize draw, podcast posts, a great-looking conference and my elbow.
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Fake news, by Terry Freedman
Here is a very brief report of a conference about fake news, and an article about what the Department for Education could do to help tackle it.
Read MoreThe headline is a bit of a misnomer: in fact, there are 7 podcasts for teachers and one for kids. But that would have made for a pretty awkward title!
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Filming in progress, by Terry Freedman
UPDATED Here are ten video channels of potential interest to teachers of Computing.
Read MoreUPDATED Here are ten podcasts that will help you understand more about computing or give you some ideas of things you can discuss in your lessons
Read MoreUPDATED This article introduces two further articles: 10 podcasts for Computing teachers, and 10 video channels for Computing teachers.
Read MoreI recently received this massive tome, the Excel 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
Read MoreI recently received this hefty volume, the Access 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
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This article details the steps that a few of us in ISTE, ITTE, TPEA and others have taken to investigate whether the ISTE Standards for Computer Science teachers, and their list of Computational Thinking Competencies, could be adapted for use in the UK. There’s also an opportunity for you to give us your opinions if you wish to.
Read MoreThis book aims to teach you how to think like a coder, rather then merely learning how to code. How far does it succeed?
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parking, by Terry Freedman
Both young and old can suffer from digital exclusion.
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assessment and the black swan problem by Terry Freedman
Here’s a round-up of a few articles I’ve written about assessing Computing and ICT over the years. Although some of them were written a while ago, I believe they are still useful and relevant.
Read MoreThe recent ed tech strategy from the Department for Education leaves much to be desired, not least because it’s so boring to read. I ran it through a word cloud and a textual analysis application. Here are my findings, along with recommendations and the introduction of my new SnoreMaster Awards.
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