cup of tea, by Terry Freedman
I installed a Buy Me A Coffee button on my Eclecticism newsletter, but felt so “icky” about it that I took it down after a couple of weeks.
Before we can go any further, is this an educational issue? I believe it is, or could be, for the following reasons
Read MoreThis wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace and a host of other areas and people.
Read MoreTwo books on the Nazi era.
Read MoreNo book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?
Read More
It’s amazing what you can achieve with a paintbrush and a fork.
Read More
Terry's desk, drawn by Terry Freedman
I was recently commissioned to write a blog post for an organisation. They gave me loads of stuff in different formats to draw on. Here’s how I coped!
Read MoreWhen I first launched the ICT in Education website (since renamed to the ICT and Computing in Education website), it was hard going. Despite using Microsoft Front Page, and experimenting at various times with various HTML editors, it was hard work, in two respects.
Read More
robot, by Terry Freedman
Have you noticed that more and more companies seem to have outsourced their customer service to an AI bot?
Read More
Click the cover to see this book on Amazon (affiliate link)
If you’re of a mathematical bent this could be just the book to delve into.
Read MoreAn AI expert recently advised people to just subscribe to the premium version of one of the AI apps, rather than waste time hopping between several free ones all the time. Hmmm….
Read MoreI came across a “resource” recently that consists of hundreds of “ready-to-wear” AI prompts.
Read More
Click the pic to see this book on Amazon (affiliate link)
Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.
Read MoreHow might you use fiction as a vehicle for teaching computational thinking? Here are some ideas.
Read More
“Erm, what?” Photo by Tadeusz Lakota on Unsplash
From ICT and Computing in Education, 6th May 2022
The Department for Education’s newly beefed-up National Tutoring Scheme enables schools to arrange tutoring for their students at discounted rates. It’s purely voluntary, but…
Read MoreSince a couple of courses I signed up for moved online, along with my own courses, I find it interesting to observe the issues people have (and to discover new ones).
Read More
That didn’t impress me much
"The degree of ignorance displayed by people who seemed not to have read the Programme of Study, or to understand what the unintended consequences might be. “
Read MoreThere is a danger in overselling your services. Being too overbearing simply does not work.
Read MoreI submitted my review of this book to Teach Secondary magazine, an educational magazine in the UK. The first review is what the magazine published. The second one is what I actually wrote! In substantive terms there is little difference between the two, but you may find it interesting to see what the editor altered.
Read MoreI keep coming across articles and research about schools’ AI policies — or the lack of them. It seems to me that we’ve been here before, with policies about teachers’ and departments’ use of technology, and e-safety. There is a familiar pattern…
Read MoreI submitted my review of this book to Teach Secondary magazine, an educational magazine in the UK. The first review is what the magazine published. The second one is what I actually wrote! In substantive terms there is little difference between the two, but you may find it interesting to see what the editor altered.
Read More(c) Terry Freedman All Rights Reserved