Video by Terry Freedman — nothing to do with the exhibition, but I thought it looked science fictiony.
There’s a great science fiction exhibition on at the Science Museum in London at the moment — until 4 May 2023. Science |Fiction is a great medium for discussing technology…
Read MoreI’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT to write course outlines, and for one of the courses I compared the result with the outlines I had already written (and taught to). The results were interesting.
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT to write some dialogue advertising my newsletter in the style of a 1930s wise guy gangster.
Here’s what it came up with….
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT, and here’s what it said…
Read MoreEvidence-based education tends to be regarded in much the same way as Oscar Wilde viewed advice: useful for other people.
Read MoreThe idea of professional learning networks, or PLNs, has been around a long time. So what is there to say about them with regard to teachers’ professional development and wellbeing?
Read MoreBack in 1971, when computers in schools were barely conceivable, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon produced a revolutionary paper. Reproduced in this book, their Twenty Things to Do with a Computer introduced teachers to the idea that programming could be used to engage children, release their creativity and still learn stuff.
Read MoreSeason’s greetings from Freedman Towers.
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Section of an artcile records spreadsheet, by Terry Freedman
Although I haven’t been overly impressed with ChatGPT as a creative force, I have to say that I am impressed with it as an alternative to Google.
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
What if intelligent computers decide to look after us, and protect us from ourselves?
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Given that the government has laid down what must be taught, periodically pontificates on the ‘best’ teaching methods, goes so far as to indicate a preference for particular resources and has appointed an external organisation to oversee quality control, can teaching be truly thought of as a profession?
Read MoreAs ChatGPT is on everybody’s lips at the moment, I thought I’d revisit an article I wrote several years ago.
Read MoreAn interesting and lighthearted look at some of the problems arising from the Back to the Future movies.
Read MoreIt was when my wireless router told me that there was no printer on the network that I finally flipped.
Read MoreIt is a sad confirmation that the trope that education lacks any sort of collective memory is in fact well observed.
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Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
This is a blast from the past. But kids are kids.
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.
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Snow on tracks by Terry Freedman
Here in England it’s cold, though not quite as cold as it has been, and walking and cycling are treacherous.
Read MoreIt is easy to believe that ‘fake news’ is a modern phenomenon, brought about by social media and promulgated by politicians. Yet as the British Library’s event, ‘Breaking the News’ exhibition demonstrated, fake news – or that unforgettable phrase ‘alternative facts’ – have been features of news reporting for at least 500 years.
Read MoreThe Oak provided useful resources during the lockdowns, and continues to create them. But there are four things wrong with the DfE's plan…
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