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 MoreI daresay there are schools in which teachers are expected to divide all their lessons into manageable chunks in accordance with Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). The fact that CLT is light on the specifics and is a load of rubbish is seemingly no deterrent.
Read MoreI have republished this post, or a version of it, on my Substack newsletter. The comments are interesting!You can use a spreadsheet to solve even relatively trivial problems — but why should you do so?
Read MoreFrom Tom Gauld’s Revenge of the Librarians
A depressing future for writers?
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT to write some dialogue advertising my newsletter in the style of a 1930s wise guy gangster.
Here’s what it came up with….
Read MoreSeason’s greetings from Freedman Towers.
Read MoreIt was when my wireless router told me that there was no printer on the network that I finally flipped.
Read MoreImage by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
This is a blast from the past. But kids are kids.
Read MoreSnow on tracks by Terry Freedman
Here in England it’s cold, though not quite as cold as it has been, and walking and cycling are treacherous.
Read MoreToo many brilliantly-working things are screwed up for it to be just accidental.
Read MoreIt seems to me that if you’re going to encourage students to use computer programming in literature studies, one very worthwhile project would be to get them to create a random book review or literary essay generator.
Read MoreA zombie, by Terry Freedman
“It never occurred to me at the time that we have zombies amongst us in the form of ex-Secretaries of State — not just in education, but in other areas too.”
Read MoreJust a couple of cogitations – hopefully worthy -- about technology and our relationship with it.
Read MoreI should have booked in person. Liverpool Street Station, by Terry Freedman
Can using a computer be injurious to one's health? If you're trying to book a particular rail journey via a particular website in the UK, the answer is a resounding "Yes".
Read MoreAs always the secret motto seems to be: “When in doubt, reorganise”. It doesn’t have to deal with the real problem, but it does have to look like activity.
Read MoreWhen it comes to jargon, the Building Schools for the Future programme in England takes a lot of beating. I’ve railed against the Department for Education for its awful predilection for driving agendas forward and delivering targets or whatever, but really they’re just amateurs at this stuff.
Read MoreIf you’re the education technology lead in your school, and your job involves encouraging other teachers to use education technology, what’s the best approach?
Read MoreOn top deck of a number 8 bus, by Terry Freedman
It is a sad but incontrovertible fact that one of the unfortunate effects of technology is that it provides some people with the excuse they need to abrogate all sense of personal responsibility or discretion.
Read MoreChristmas at Selfridges, by Terry Freedman
Unfortunately, my end-of-year message got a bit mangled, but I’m posting it here anyway. See if you can figure out what it is supposed to say.
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