Fancy a Christmas puzzle, a cat video, and loads of useful ed tech links? I don’t blame you! Read on…
Read MoreTips for teaching online -- get it while stocks last!
A few weeks ago I put together a collection of articles on using Zoom, good practice, etc etc, and bundled them into a PDF. You can get this for free just by signing up to my newsletter, Digital Education, but time is running out! The offer ends at 11:59pm on 20th December 2020.
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
On this day #14: Enforced independence
For those of us who are bemused by the Department for Education’s new-found interest in digital matters (starting in 2019 with their Education Technology strategy), this might be of interest.
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Exclamation mark, Terry Freedman
The latest department for education update
Not like the DfE to make announcements before 5pm on the last day of term.
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Target, by Terry Freedman
Hitting the target but missing the mark?
In my opinion, not implementing such changes is at best thoughtless, and at worst indicative of a lack of understanding of the pressures schools are under at the best of times, let alone now.
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Terry: dreading the bombardment of ill-informed views!
Twitter toxicity: Beware the ultracrepidarians
It all started with Brexit. At least, that’s when I first became aware of the preponderance of people who are more than happy to pontificate about, and lecture the rest of us on, a subject of which they have no expertise.
Read MoreReflections on Technology in Schools in the time of Covid: Part 2
The potential for the education of blockchain technology is huge. It’s largely associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but it has far wider implications.
Read MoreInformation technology in schools in 2000
“78% of full-time teachers participated in courses in the past 12 months about the integration of educational technology in their own subject. The perceived usefulness of such courses was directly related to their length.”
Read MoreTech training then and now: spot the difference
It would be great if the DfE could organise laptop schemes that work properly, and identify the schools and teachers who have managed to achieve great things in online learning and disseminate information about how they did it.
Read MoreThe state of information and communications technology in the year 2000
Apart from the name change, are things any different now?
Read MoreOn this day #13: Welcome back, VBA!
To borrow from Mark Twain, reports of the death of Visual Basic for Applications as a viable programming language to teach in schools are exaggerated.
Read MoreInformation Technology in schools in the year 2000
Is this still the case: “The popular image of the ICT Co-ordinator is still, I think, that of a man with a beard, and a top pocket bulging with pens, screwdrivers, and bits of integrated circuit boards.”?
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Reflecting, by Elaine Freedman
Reflections on Technology in Schools in the time of Covid: Part 1
A major thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has done is to give us all a huge kick up the backside. We’ve had the technology to enable working from home for years, but there was not much incentive to implement it very widely. It’s a testament to the commitment and flexibility of companies and educational institutions that the educational system didn’t simply collapse.
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
On this day #12: usability, assessment, tiffs, pointless data and Computing
Gosh! I don’t know if there is something special about the date December 6th — like the Ides of March, say — but I seem to have been astonishingly prolific on that date.
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On this day #11: Making ICT and Computing real
This article, published on 5 December 2015, was one of a 7 part series on ways to make Computing be more interesting.
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On this day, by Terry Freedman
On this day #10: Important questions to ask about speakers
Given how much competition there is for our time now that so much is on offer online, I think these suggested questions are as important as ever.
Read MoreOn this day #9: Web 2.0
An old article about Web 2.0
Read MoreQuick look: Science Fictions
It’s really rather annoying when a non-fiction book received for review is not only useful, but readable. And not merely readable, but enjoyable, even entertaining.
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On this day, by Terry Freedman
On this day #8: You mean this technology is new???
It really is quite an eye-opener when you discover kids’ idea of tech history!
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Who?
Does anyone know Adam from Adam?
I have to say I think it is really insulting to have someone who looks like he has just finished studying for ‘A’ Levels himself telling us why exams are best.
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