Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman
In 2019 I taught an introductory course on blogging, for adults. I was invited to teach it again. Then a small event called a pandemic intervened, so I was told that the course would be moved from a physical classroom to an online one. My reaction? Excellent.
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For years it’s been the case, or at least seems to be the case, that satisfying Ofsted inspectors who may not know anything about ICT or Computing is a safer bet than trying to be innovative.
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In The Snowball Effect, by Katherine Maclean, the focus is on mathematics, or an innovation called “social mathematics” to be accurate. This probably sounds rather dry, but it was really quite prescient.
Read MoreI’m always wary of books that are written while the issues that it addresses are new and current.
Read MoreThis book addresses online learning from the point of view of the learner, rather than the teacher or the institution
Read MoreI like where this book is coming from. It regards teachers as experts.
Read MoreThis article outlines some general factors that prevent heads of department and other school leaders from buying products and services.
Read MoreI wrote this article for a readership of edtech companies. But the suggestions would work just as well for any organisation that wishes to keep in touch with its members/clients/visitors etc.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
In my experience, an expectation of compliance was baked in to the system, and that really does mitigate against innovation.
Read MoreThere’s something a bit “iffy” about inserting an advert into a programme that wasn’t there originally.
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It’s astonishing to realise that a year ago today I wrote about education technology in the context of dealing with the educational fallout from Covid19.
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Most press releases are boring. Even worse, some are annoying. And the people who send them can be even more annoying. I can tell you these things with some authority because I receive dozens of them a day.
Read MoreIf you set surveys, have a look at Tripetto. It has some lovely features.
Read MoreMy various squiggles in my notebook or Evidence Form may not have meant much to anybody else, but it conveyed a lot of information to me.
Read MoreWhat if an amazing technology like time travel were used purely and simply as a form of punishment?
Read MoreWhy feedback matters.
Read MoreI ran the Department for Education’s educational technology strategy through a word cloud generator to see if it really was about educational technology.
Read MoreAt best, “corporate guff” deadens the senses of the reader, and is simply regarded as a written equivalent of background noise.
Read MoreA lot of inspectors judged how good the subject was being taught by how nicely formatted the kids' work was.
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Once a school has purchased your ed tech product or service, what then? In my experience, a lot of great products are let down by terrible documentation.
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