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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As the British Library’s event, ‘Breaking the News’ exhibition demonstrates, fake news has been a feature of news reporting for at least 500 years.
Read MoreIn 1994 I set out with my wife to discover the best place to buy a computer system -- and discovered a lot of sexism along the way.
Read MoreA letter to one of my secondary school teachers.
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One of your tasks, along with your new colleagues, is to recruit people to be in your team. What a wonderful feeling that must be!
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books to be reviewed by Terry Freedman
One of the first things I look for when reviewing a non-fiction book is whether or not it contains an index. If it does, the next thing I check is whether the index is actually useful.
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Conference, by Terry Freedman
The following events may be of interest to teachers.
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Starting a new job as head of the Information Technology and Business Studies department in a school, I was filled with excitement, and a certain amount of anxiety — but not entirely for the usual reasons…
Read MoreOfsted (the Office for Standards in Education) has published its first report in ages into Computing as a subject. I've summarised the findings, and added some links and comments on my own in italics.
Read MoreThe “Long Tail" has been lauded and quoted at length. But what does the book actually say, and how does it stand up to scrutiny. In this lengthy review I give it a cautious "thumbs up".
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This is another book to be reviewed for Teach Secondary magazine.
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Follow the signs to a couple of new newsletters. Photo: Signpost pointing right, by Terry Freedman
After a year of weighing up the pros and cons I decided to start a couple of publications on Substack. One is about literature and life in general, and the other one is focused on education more generally
Read MoreMy review of this book has just been published in Teach Secondary magazine. The review there is slightly different from the one I submitted, so I’ve included my original one here as text, and the Teach Secondary one as a scan.
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Printing press, by Terry Freedman
When I started at a school where part of my role was to encourage other teachers to use the education technology facilities, one of the strategies I used was to produce fake news stories using the school’s desktop publishing software.
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A still-relevant article from a few years ago.
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Handshake, by Terry Freedman
Why I’m unfollowing people more and more.
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TfL data by Terry Freedman
Elaine keeps telling me to remember to clock in and out at stations, even if the barriers are open. She’s right.
Read MoreThere are some interesting-looking books at the top of the to-be-reviewed pile. This is one of them.
Read MoreThere are some interesting-looking books at the top of the to-be-reviewed pile. This is one of them.
Read MoreAs far as I’m aware no Education Secretary has had the ability or the courage to deal with the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
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