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Pupils working on computers, by Terry Freedman
On this day: How can a programming language be boring? (Plus Update)
Someone told me of an X exchange that took place a few weeks ago in which teachers were saying that their kids found Scratch boring. Well (he says, arms akimbo), here are my views on that.
Read MoreOn this day: Using codes when note-taking -- republished with a discussion
My various squiggles in my notebook or Evidence Form may not have meant much to anybody else, but it conveyed a lot of information to me.
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Questions, by Terry Freedman
Hot Potatoes Cloze Exercise
A simple, and very old-fashioned looking, cloze exercise!
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Conference: Next steps for AI in Education in England
Last year I attended and reported on a similarly-named conference. The Westminster Forum is running another one this year.
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Where are the girls in ICT and Computing? Still an apposite question (unfortunately)
I wrote and published this more than ten years ago (in 2014). Apart from the fact that some terminology has changed and some resources are no longer available, it is still relevant. What a sad situation.
Read MoreCompetition deadline situation: imminent
This collection of work by Gay Talese is utterly brilliant, and contains items that haven’t seen the light of day in a long time.
Read MoreOn this day: Hazardous Environments
Hazardous environments: I like to think of this as being a metaphor for any situation in which one is challenged.
Read MoreHow I reduced my marking time from 4 hours a week to 15 minutes
Reading each student’s work each week, at a rate of ten minutes each, took nearly two and a half hours. Thinking of suitable comments, adding them in to the appropriate place in Google Classroom, and updating my spreadsheet markbook took another hour and a half.
Something had to be done.
Read MoreShould the Computing curriculum be ditched?
This is a serious question. What is the point of teaching kids computer programming, when AI can do all the hard work?
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An awful shock, by Terry Freedman
Training sessions that threatened to go wrong -- and how I rescued them
The chapters in this article were originally published as separate articles. For a pdf version, sign up to the free Digital Education newsletter and download it from the Digital Education Supplement area, where it goes under the title of My Worst IT Training Days.
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An AI experiment to summarise student feedback
An AI summary of feedback received on a course.
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An unrestricted link
Last week I announced a competition to win a copy of A Town Without Time, the new collection of work by Gay Talese. Here is the link again, this time with an unrestricted link!
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A Town Without Time
We all need a break from work, so why not curl up with a good book?
This is a great boook, full of interesting and wonderfully-written stories, and the publisher has made a copy available to win as a prize.
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A big question mark, by Terry Freedman
The DfE's foray into AI for education: the good news and the (potentilly) bad news
We don’t have very long to wait before the educational AI projects funded by the Department for Education are unveiled, if all goes to plan. But I have some concerns.
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Questions, by Terry Freedman
What is 'mastery'?
The devil is in the detail, and the subject is not apolitical.
Read MoreQuick look: Bad Education
Goodwin covers the reasons he left academia, scholars, students and the system. Then he proposes some solutions.
Read MoreWhen AI can write as well as this, I'll worry! Plus a prize competition.
To paraphrase what Arthur C Clarke said about teachers, any writer that can be replaced by a computer probably should be.
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Review: The Shortest History of Music -- two reviews in one!
The music programme of study requires students to possess an understanding of the music they perform and that which they listen to, as well as a grasp of music history, and an appreciation of different musical styles.
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Review: The Art of Uncertainty (two reviews in one)
The Computing department would find the section on facial recognition interesting, because apart from possible ethical concerns, the fact is that even if the system has high accuracy, most of its identifications will be wrong.
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