If you’re looking for a course in computing or a related area, and you live in England, look no further! This ebook contains over 200 entries all in one place.
If you’re looking for a course in computing or a related area, and you live in England, look no further! This ebook contains over 200 entries all in one place.
Read MoreIf you still have, or are planning to have, a computer lab, then these 24 things are essential to include.
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Harmonicas by Terry Freedman
How can you encourage other teachers to use the ed tech facilities? You may not know this, but there is not a lot of difference between a Lee Oskar diatonic harmonica (the type used by blues and folk musicians) and a Hohner Blues Band harmonica. The Lee Oskar is said to have been engineered to give a “sharper” edge to the tone, which suits the blues sound, whereas the Marine Band, being slightly “softer”, works well for folk music too. Unless you’re a purist, there is probably not much in it. As someone once said:
Read More“A difference is only a difference if it makes a difference.”
Digital News Report 2019 from Reuters
The Reuters Institute’s report on Digital News 2019 has just been published. Here are a couple of extracts.
Read MoreGood news: the prize draw for How to Think Like a Coder will be run very soon, for subscribers to the Digital Education newsletter. Here’s what you need to know.
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TPEA conference
Good news if you’re thinking about going to the TPEA conference in July.
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Trust Me, I’m Lying
This book lifts the lid on the practices that various media use to promulgate fake news even while appearing to be squeaky clean.
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Discussion before the discussion by Terry Freedman.jpg
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.
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