conference session, by Terry Freedman
I attend a lot of conferences, and over the years I've developed a useful set of criteria by which to evaluate them. Here, then, in no particular order, are my top 14 characteristics of a good conference.
Read MoreI think everyone involved in education should have a blog! Here, in no particular order, are my reasons.
Read MoreUpdated! It’s fine being a visionary, but somewhere along the line someone has to actually do something.
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On the ICT & Computing in Education blog I had one of my peridodic digs at politicians. Over on my Eclecticism newsletter I wrote about my writing process.
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From a spreadsheet created by Terry Freedman
A few years ago at a conference, an erstwhile colleague who was giving the keynote presentation referred to “My ex-colleague Terry Freedman, the Excel guru.” While flattering, it was more the case that I made a great deal of use of, at the time, Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications.
Read MoreHere are my 18 suggestions for inclusion on a digital financial literacy course. This is an update of an article first published in 2011.
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Those of us who have held responsibility for embedding digital technology across a school will all have tales of well-meaning management who, frankly, didn’t have a clue.
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History class. Photo by Terry Freedman
Boring projects are the worst kind of thing to give students. My way of thinking is simple: if you can’t think of anything exciting, get them to come up with something themselves.
Read MoreHere at Freedman Towers I have been trawling through the archives, hoping to salvage something of my legacy to donate to the nation, or indeed the world. Anyways, all joking aside, I came upon this email I wrote…
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
It’s almost unheard of for me to read advertorials or sponsored posts, especially when the words “Advertisement” appears in small print somewhere other than the headline. But the title made me curious.
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A lesson, by Terry Freedman
What makes an excellent ICT or Computing lesson? In this document I've tried to encapsulate the answer to that question.
Read MoreTo the casual listener, stride piano, boogie woogie piano and rock-n-roll piano all sound pretty much the same. Yet Fats Waller, perhaps the most famous stride pianist, detested boogie woogie.
Read MoreIf I had to choose just one causal factor to focus on, as to why students find ICT lessons boring, it would be the start of the lesson.
Read MoreNot all youngsters are bored in their ICT lessons, of course, but it’s a sufficiently common complaint to have made me do a mental double-take when Maddi, an Australian teenager, happened to mention that she actually enjoyed her ICT lessons.
Read MoreShould you ever find yourself in the unlikely circumstance of having to choose between me administering medication or waiting for a paramedic, my advice would be to wait.
Read MoreI asked the AI module built in to Squarespace to write a paragraph on why music is relevant to teachers of Computing. Here’s what it said…
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Come back! Drawing by Terry Freedman
I've been reading the transcript of a conference called Computing in England's schools, from July 2022. Yes, I'm a bit behind the times on this, so I apologise. However, I think anyone who has been involved in educational computing for any length of time…
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Difference engine #2. Photo by Terry Freedman
We need to know how an AI decision-making tool arrives at it's conclusions, which might be hard given that even the designers of these tools don't always know.
Read MoreThe next issue of my newsletter, Digital Education, will be available soon. It contains articles on AI, smartphones, Calvino and more.
Read MoreI will be running another online course in blogging in the evenings of the 17th and 24th November 2023.
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