If part of your job is to encourage other teachers to use technology in their lessons, this article, based on my own experiences, may help. Now updated with additional points.
Read MoreA history lesson in the Atari room
My feet after visiting Bett
Last chance to register online for Bett (for free)
I’ve just discovered that today (3rd March 2023) is the last day to register online for free for the edtech show known as Bett.
Read MoreUpdated! Supporting teachers through a challenging period
Updated! Discounts for Teachers is a free membership scheme which joins forces with retailers to help all staff, in any role working across the education sector to save money.
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More on our corrections policy
Just to let you know, this website is being reviewed by Newsguard.
Read MoreOur corrections policy UPDATED
UPDATED My corrections policy wasn’t easy to find so I’ve created a dedicated page for it.
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From Tom Gauld’s Revenge of the Librarians
Is this the future of ChatGPT for authors?
A depressing future for writers?
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My depiction of ChatGPT getting more and more frazzled by the number of assignments I throw at it — Drawing by Terry Freedman
Coming soon... Digital Education ezine, focusing on ChatGPT
Yes, it’s all over the internet, but ChatGPT is still worth looking at. I am compiling a list of useful (I trust) links, and have a few things to add to the plethora of comments already out there.
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Review of the hieroglyphs exhibition
Taking place at the British Museum in London, the exhibition could be used to provide interesting perspectives or links to several subjects — including programming.
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Experiment by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
Three experiments (and a bonus one)
As a teacher, you’re meant to be the fount of all knowledge, right? Even if your teaching style is to be a guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage, you’re still expected to actually know stuff. Well, sometimes it pays not to know, or at least to appear not to know.
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Video by Terry Freedman — nothing to do with the exhibition, but I thought it looked science fictiony.
Review of a science fiction exhibition
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 MoreCan ChatGPT write decent course outlines?
I’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 MoreAn advertisement for my newsletter -- courtesy of ChatGPT
I 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 MoreHow can CHatGPT be used in education? And can it write decent book reviews?
I asked ChatGPT, and here’s what it said…
Read MoreReview: The Science of Learning
Evidence-based education tends to be regarded in much the same way as Oscar Wilde viewed advice: useful for other people.
Read MoreReview: The power of professional learning networks: full review
The 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 MoreReview: 20 Things to do with a computer (full review)
Back 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!
Season’s greetings from Freedman Towers.
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Section of an artcile records spreadsheet, by Terry Freedman
Using ChatGPT as a search engine
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
On This Day: Why I Dread The Thought Of Benign Algorithms (Updated)
What if intelligent computers decide to look after us, and protect us from ourselves?
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Review: The turning point for the teaching profession -- full review
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?
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