So many authors think they ought to be the recipient of the Nobel prize for literature.
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Review: Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.
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Review: Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry
Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...
Read MoreElevator speeches
Sometimes, the elevator speech I hear was presumably crafted whilst going from the top floor to the bottom floor in a very tall building.
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The human touch
I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI, especially for summarising long documents. But the summaries lacked the human touch.
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The KCL Report on the future of Computing Education
The Computing curriculum report from Kings College makes some great recommendations for fixing the failures of the current curriculum.
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The future of AI in Education: notes on a Westminster Education Forum Conference
A few months ago I attended a Westminster Education Forum about the use of AI in Education. I spent quite some time going through the transcript and making notes, but then I thought: why not use AI to do the work?
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Quick look: The Art of Uncertainty: How to navigate chance, ignorance, risk and luck
The first thing that struck me is that it is quite readable.
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Quick look: Hitler's People
Yes, I know that this has nothing (ostensibly at least) to do with ICT or Computing, but I thought it might be an interesting book in general, and for history teachers in particular.
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Review: Making Sense Of Chaos – A Better Economics for a Better World
Before you rush off on the grounds that this book has nothing to do with Computing, let me reassure you that it does.
Read MoreBjork & Bjork’s Desirable Difficulties in Action
The original work on which this volume is based has perhaps been honoured more in the breach than in the observance.
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Review: Coderspeak – The language of computer programmers
This book won’t necessarily help a student pass a computing exam, but it will almost certainly make them a more aware, and thus better, programmer.
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Using AI to mark students' work: postscript
I didn’t think AI's answer was good enough. I didn’t ask how ethical the proposals were. I asked it to mark an Economics essay.
Read MoreUsing AI to mark students' work
The Department for Education in England is running a study on how AI might be used for marking work. I thought I’d test AI’s ability to mark a student’s economics essay.
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Suggestions for using AI in education
I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI. Not for creative writing I should add: I think AI has a long way to go before it will tempt me to eschew the likes of David Foster Wallace, Nabakov or Orwell. But for helping one think and, I’m sure, for admin, I think it’s a game-changer.
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EdTech Guide 1: 55 things to do at the start of the school year
This guide was first made available to subscribers to Digital Education, my free newsletter.
Read MoreEdTech Diary: Expectations
I want to be able to have as much access to technology when I'm in a school as what I enjoy in my own home. I don't think that is too much to ask, but maybe that's me.
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Coming soon: 55 things to do at the start of the school year
This guide contains 55 suggestions for the head of computing/technology co-ordinator/head of ICT etc to get the new school year off to a flying start. Available NOW for subscribers, or wait a week.
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Getting touchy and feely about Computing -- illustrated
Making it possible for students to come face to face with real things from times gone by can have an electrifying effect on them. This is especially so when teaching Computing.
Read MoreEdtech Diary: Wake up and smell the coffee
When I worked as a Technology Coordinator, a large part of my job was to encourage teachers in all subjects to make use of educational technology in their lessons and, even better, to build it into their schemes of work. It was something of an uphill struggle sometimes...
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