How to boast without boasting?
Read MoreHumble brag, by Terry Freedman
Something ain't right, by Terry Freedman
(Bad) management
If you head up a department in a school, or hold a similar post, here are some examples of how not to manage people.
Read MoreBook review: Talk Triggers
Talk Triggers is a word-of-mouth marketing guide with a difference: lots of examples of success stories, but also a logical analysis of why they worked.
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Online timer, by Terry Freedman
Micromanagement? No thanks!
If you’re tempted to cross every ‘t’ and dot every ‘i’ during this pandemic, my suggestion is: don’t!
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HEMS, by Terry Freedman
Set trivial assignments for students of Computing stuck at home
Why set students real-world, life-changing, humanity-saving problems when trivial challenges are likely to prove equally, if not more, useful?
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blank screen, by Terry Freedman
Problems in the edtech classroom #5: Where's my website?!
In 2006 my website went down right in the middle of a lesson. Here’s what I wrote about it at the time.
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Terry reflecting, by E Freedman
Reflections from a teacher training course 2
I believe in simple instructions. Here are the instructions I gave to a new cohort of teacher trainees, plus a short commentary on what went right — and what didn’t.
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Kindle Fire, by Terry Freedman
How to make use of your Kindle pdf annotations
If you’ve annotated a pdf document on your Kindle, how do you then get those notes into a word processor? This article describes a way of doing so.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
Do teachers have the right to not make decisions about the curriculum?
Why should students be expected to help the teacher decide what goes into the syllabus?
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Think outside the box, by Terry Freedman
How to enhance your free offer to schools
Lots of edtech companies are offering free stuff to schools. How can yours stand out from the crowd?
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Reflections
Reflections from a teacher training course 1
My reflections on a first session I taught on a teacher training course are still apposite today.
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Listening, by Terry Freedman
Articles you can listen to
Here’s a list of the articles you can listen to on the ICT & Computing in Education website.
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Concerned, by Terry Freedman
Should teaching be a Masters profession?
I for one am heartily sick of people thinking that anyone can teach just because it involves, as they see it, standing in front of a class of kids and spouting forth.
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Blog reading, by Terry Freedman
Getting new blog posts to come to YOU
You don’t have to visit lots of different blogs to discover the latest articles on them.
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Paper work, by Terry Freedman
Book review bulletin 1
I’ve recently reviewed four ed tech-related books. Here are links to them. They are: Teachers vs Tech? * How charts lie * Little quick fix: finding the theme in your data * Hello world: how to be human in the age of the machine
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A Minor Harp, by Terry Freedman
Covid-19: No escape from the blues
An unfortunate consequence (for me) of the current lockdown.
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Should all learning take place in the cloud?
Covid-19: Is an online school the answer?
Would an online-only school be a feasible proposition for all pupils?
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A Minor Harp, by Terry Freedman
Leaders are like harp players
The best leaders I’ve come across do not constantly interfere. They are not there “playing notes”, trying to show you how brilliant they are.
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Book review: Teachers vs Tech?
Two cheers for this well-researched book. If I were still a head of department in a school I would buy a copy or two to lend to interested colleagues, especially NQTs, despite my criticisms.
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Think outside the box, by Terry Freedman
Fiction and computational thinking (Updated)
How might you use fiction as a vehicle for teaching computational thinking? Here are some ideas.
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