Burglar! By Terry Freedman
There must surely be few things more annoying than, having put a lot of work into a course, you discover that someone has ripped you off. They are using your materials in their course. They might even be selling your materials somewhere online.
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On December 7th, 2015, I wrote an article explaining how you could set up a spreadsheet in Excel to help you predict and analyse students’ grades.
Read MoreThere seems to be no end of attempts to improve education by people who have either never worked in it, or not understood what they were looking at.
Read MoreI was once offered discounts on buying a suite of computers for my school if I persuaded my colleagues to take out an insurance policy!
Read MoreI like to try and give people the benefit of the doubt, but is that always the right approach? Ambrose Bierce defined a cynic as someone who sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
Read MoreBack in the year 2001 Google was still very much the new-ish kid on the block.
Read MoreWhile this book is comprehensive, and gives instructions step by step, it is not what you might call an idiot’s guide.
Read MoreThis article was originally published on the Bee Digital Marketing website. Although it was mainly aimed at companies, many of the principles apply to anyone wanting to implement a new application in school.
Read MoreHere is a very strange paradox. On the one hand, everyone agrees that a key ingredient for success in life is having great teachers. On the other, there’s a relentless narrative that education is somehow broken and that fixing it entails replacing teachers or transforming some or all of what they do.
Read MoreIs it really true that classrooms haven’t changed since the year 1600?
Read MoreIt seems to me that one of the most important skills a salesperson should possess is to be able to listen. Yet some salespeople and technical support people launch into a script or a flowchart when you call the company, or when you meet them.
Read MoreYour article is not available at the moment. Ain’t that a shame?
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The Homework Excuse Management System, by Terry Freedman
You can use a spreadsheet to solve even relatively trivial problems — but why should you do so?
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Are your students yawning, checking their email, launching paper aeroplanes in your lessons? Perhaps you’re making one of these mistakes.In my experience, many teachers make poor use of teaching assistants, regarding them as a sort of junior helper on the same level as a school pupil doing a holiday job. This is unfortunate.
Read MoreIf book blurb writers had any sense, they wouldn’t put wordy descriptions on the back cover of books. They would put a graph there instead.
Read MoreHaving to make the case for actually registering for an event is, in my opinion, treating teachers as if they were (a) non-professionals and (b) children.
Read MoreYou can just imagine the family rows of the future, should technology ever reach the point where it isn't possible to distinguish between humans and non-humans merely by looking at them.
Read MoreThe attractive thing about badges is that a school can invent their own categories and achievement levels.
Read MoreThe answer to the question “Who is responsible for a company’s image (or a school’s image)?” is, of course, everyone who works for it. But what does this mean in practice?
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