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This book covers an immense range of the kinds of data that we ‘store’. The authors spent a year sending each other weekly, themed postcards. These contained not words, but pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read MoreYou should encourage your students to always carry a camera of some description with them at all times. And if you are a Head of Department, encourage your staff to do the same.
Read MoreI'm a great believer in using different kinds of data to measure how well pupils are doing, not all of which are quantifiable in the usual sense.
Read MoreHow I hate the word “narrative”! At least, I detest the way it has been usurped by smart-suited political advisers who say things like “We need a new narrative”.
But sometimes, like now, I get what they are talking about, though I prefer to use the word “story”. And my question is: what is the story, what is the whole experience, of Computing in your school?
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Pardon? By Terry Freedman
A technical support reporting system is only as good as the information you can extract from it.
Read MoreIf you go to at least one conference a year, you should consider using one or more of these apps.
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Whether you are moving to a new school, or staying where you are, it’s good to stand back and try to gauge what the school’s education technology is like. Why you would want to do that if taking up a new post is obvious: you want to see how the land lies so that you can start to identify any improvements that could be made.
Think outside the box, photo by Terry Freedman
“Disruptive technologist” Tony Parkin has performed a valuable service by collating the tweets relating to the recent Marketing to Schools Summit. Here is a link to his round-up.
Read MoreI like a challenge so I thought I’d try to create a self-marking spreadsheet in Excel. I was inspired to have a go at this by someone called Lee Rymill, who uploaded a self-marking spreadsheet to the CAS resources area. However, I wanted to take it a few steps further, using the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.
Read MoreRubrics look like an easy way to tackle assessment. But they can be deceptive in that respect, and can cause the unwary to slip up. This article was published on this day 3 years ago. I’ve had to clean up a few links and delete some out-of-date references, but otherwise the article still makes some useful points about assessing Computing and related subjects using rubrics.
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Print Friendly. Screenshot by Terry Freedman
The layout of articles on some websites may be beautiful on screen, but make it a nightmarish experience to print the articles out. Print Friendly is a good solution to this problem.
Read MoreWhat is the Marketing to Schools Summit, and what was good, and not so good, about it?
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Exclamation mark, by Terry Freedman
An apparently pointless article but one that has a point if you think about it.
Read MoreUltracrepidarians, disrespectful people —- why bother with Twitter?
Read MoreIn TMIL, Holiday demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate the news. A must-read for teachers of media or digital literacy.
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The UserID interface, by Terry Freedman
We should encourage pupils to write useless bits of code. Here’s why.
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What?! by Terry Freedman
A girl had been made to leave her lesson, and wanted to help me teach spreadsheets. My mind said “No way”, my intuition said “Why not?”
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newsguard toolbar shield, screenshot by Terry Freedman
Newsguard is a service that rates websites for honesty, transparency and trustworthiness. It evaluates websites against several criteria, such as whether information is gathered and presented responsibly. A browser extension will enable you to see at a glance whether or a not a site they have evaluated is trustworthy.
Read MoreThe Edusummit conference has a different format from most. This is a report on the conference, which will be publishing a call to action and an ebook of papers in the near future.
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