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8 Ways to make physical computing work in a NORMAL classroom

June 9, 2025

If you insist on getting the kids to make or use physical computing kits/robots in the classroom, here arte 8 suggestions for making sure it’s all useful.

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Tags robots, robotics, physical computing
They're not that shocking, surely?

They're not that shocking, surely?

6 Outlandish things to do in your Computing lesson

June 9, 2025

Why not try something different in your Computing lessons? Here's a short list of suggestions.

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In Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags ideas, outlandish ideas

Reasons to teach coding through problem-solving

June 6, 2025

Should you start with the raw components when teaching coding, or get the kids problem-solving immediately? This article argues in favour of the latter.

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In Computing Tags problem-solving, coding, programming
Be aware! By Terry Freedman

Be aware! By Terry Freedman

Robotics is STILL a waste of time

June 6, 2025

I’d rather teach pupils to program without going through the intermediary process of building a robot or anything else. Despite all the hype, I regard it as a massive waste of time.

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In News & views Tags robots, robotics, physical computing, maker, maker movement
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Review: Social Media for Academics

June 6, 2025

This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags social media, academia, reviews

Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

June 1, 2025

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

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In AI, Quick Looks, Reviews Tags reviews, VIBE, programming, Artificial Intelligence

Why you should review your education technology purchasing plans

May 30, 2025

Having taken a decision, you can’t just leave it. You have to review it at some point.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags plan, planning, spending, strategic planning
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Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

May 29, 2025

Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags Game Changers, reviews, PSHE, games
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Review: The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History

May 29, 2025

In some respects one could view this book as a single warning repeated 64 times.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, history, dicttors
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Review: The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street 

May 28, 2025

Taking readers from the Middle Ages to (more or less) the present day, Gray charts how the places where we do our shopping and what we buy have changed over the centuries.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags history, the bookshop, reviews

On this day: Set trivial assignments for students of Computing stuck at home

May 28, 2025

Why set students real-world, life-changing, humanity-saving problems when trivial challenges are likely to prove equally, if not more, useful?

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In Blast from the past, On this day, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags trivial, code, programming, HEMS, problem-solving

Review: Extraordinary Learning For All

May 28, 2025

As a source of potential ideas and inspiration, the book could be very useful indeed.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags Reviews, Extraordinary Learning for All

Collective nostalgia about computer programming

May 25, 2025

Almost nobody needs a gasp of computer programming, and even fewer need to know how computers actually work.

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In News & views Tags Computer Science, Elearning Foundation, Lord Puttnam, computer studies, programming
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Computing discussion topic

May 23, 2025

A topic to discuss with your students perhaps: the hidden bias in algorithms.

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In Computing, News & views, Discussion topic, AI Tags discussion, algorithms, bias, objectivity, AI, Artificial Intelligence

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22 reasons that education technology projects fail

May 21, 2025

Why do some school and local authority initiatives, not to mention government initiatives, fail, especially when they concern education technology?

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags education technology projects, failure, projects, system failure
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Review: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

May 20, 2025

One has the impression that the main role of the university these days is to maximise profit, while that of the majority of teaching staff is to ensure the ‘correct’ views are passed on to students. All the while, students’ main concern seems to be to seek protection from anything that might make them feel unsafe.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, Bad Education, Matt Goodwin, SchoolsWeek

On this day: City Learning Centres: The end?

May 19, 2025

A failure to ask the question, when encouraged to adopt a new thing, “So what?”. I'm by no means a Luddite, but I think critical judgment is rather important.

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In News & views, On this day, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags CLC, City Learning Centres, budget, cuts, archive
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Some notes on failing in ICT and Computing

May 15, 2025

Failure seems to be the zeitgeist  at the moment. How should schools deal with students’ mistakes?

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In News & views, Unintended consequences Tags failure

Rules of Engagement Updated

May 15, 2025

Do we need gimmicks, new-fangled techniques to keep kids engaged in lessons?

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In News & views Tags AfL, assessment for learning, classroom experiment
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Free ebooks on teaching online

May 14, 2025

These pdfs, on converting a course to an online course, and tips for teaching online, were written a few years ago but still contain actionable suggestions.

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In Digital Education, Tips for teachers, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags teaching online
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Recent book reviews
Backlist: The Written World
Backlist: The Written World

Writing was invented ‘only’ a few thousand years ago. It’s a fascinating story.

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Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce
Backlist: What I'm reading: Bounce

What does it take to become an expert? And what can the Computing teacher do about it?

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Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution
Backlist: The Fourth Education Revolution

The title of this book invites curiosity: what were the other three ‘revolutions?

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A book review for your English department colleagues perhaps
A book review for your English department colleagues perhaps

Some of these stories are so richly told, it can almost seem as though you’re right there with him.

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Review: Pen Names
Review: Pen Names

OK, so this has nothing to do with education technology, but we all read (I hope!). A very interesting examination of the pen names some authors have adopted, and why.

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Review: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History
Review: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

There's a really interesting section in this book about how ceramic storage of data and information is probably the most likely medium to stand the test of time.

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A book review for your biology colleagues perhaps
A book review for your biology colleagues perhaps

The subject under discussion here is how human physiology has developed in different ways, in response to different conditions around the world.

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Review: Social Media for Academics
Review: Social Media for Academics

This book is very readable, and if I sound surprised that is because it’s not always true of academics!

Read More →
Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example
Quick looks: VIBE Coding by Example

For the time being, this book is free in Kindle format.

Read More →
Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
Review: The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too

Despite the relative paucity of immediately obvious National Curriculum links, teachers will find several of sections of this book to be highly engaging.

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