Here is a set of links to the educational computing books I’ve reviewed up till 22 September 2019.
Incidentally, if you’re fed up with books you have to read, and would prefer an unreadable one with lots of tables to consult instead, then check out my latest opus. It’s called Computing and related qualifications, and is intended to make it quicker and easier for the Head of Computing in English schools to find a computing qualification that would suit some or even all of their students.
Here’s the link: Computing and related qualifications
It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.
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...
Before you rush off on the grounds that this book has nothing to do with Computing, let me reassure you that it does.
The original work on which this volume is based has perhaps been honoured more in the breach than in the observance.
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.
Introverts thrive by being allowed to be quiet, having time for reflection and not being required to 'perform' all the time.
The idea of desirable difficulties has always appealed to me. In my teaching I’m partticularly in favour of applying Vygotsky’s concept of the zone of proximal development.
Most people would agree that collaboration is a good thing – so how can we collaborate more effectively in school settings?
This book might not directly address obvious aspects of the music curriculum, but it can certainly give teachers access to a rich seam of facts and anecdotes with which to embellish their lessons.
A book on temporal adventures may seem like an odd inclusion here, but it can actually be used in many ways.