I did find it annoying, and frustrating, though when a parent would sometimes tell me that they left school at 15 with no qualifications whatsoever, but that “it didn’t do me any harm”.
I always wanted to say, “How do you know?”
Read MoreTest your product!
I asked the person demonstrating the product what happens when bits are lost.
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Ear, by Terry Freedman
The art of listening
Some years ago my wife and I set off to discover if the salesmen (back then they were nearly all men) were sexist. (Spoiler alert: most of them were.)
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Mortar board, by Terry Freedman
Is it worth doing an MA?
A few weeks ago my lady wife asked me what benefits I’d enjoyed from having gained an MA in the distant mists of decades past. “Apart from opening doors”, she added.
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news by Terry Freedman
London Book Fair 2021
As always, the London Book Fair programme looks great.
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London Book Fair, by Terry Freedman
Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum 10 June 2021
It’s well-known that accessing academic articles can be a very expensive business. This year’s Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum, run in conjunction with the London Book Fair, is about developments in open access.
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London Book Fair seminar
What Works Conference
The London Book Fair people are once more putting on the What Works conference on 9th June 2021. The programme looks really interesting.
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Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Advertisement: Computing/ICT teacher vacancy
Would you love to work in a small international school with the flexibility to decide what you want to teach in KS3 Computing/ICT lessons, as well as teach the Cambridge IGCSE ICT and AS Level IT courses?
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Gloucester Road Station, by Terry Freedman
Who is responsible for a school's or a company’s image?
At one of the schools I taught in, the headteacher once made an announcement in the staffroom to this effect…
Read MoreIn the next issue of the Digital Education newsletter ...
A veritable cornucopia of good stuff for edtech people!
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e-stuff, by Terry Freedman
Publishers and E-books: making haste slowly?
Why are ebooks priced at almost the same level as printed books? (I’ve actually seen a Kindle book priced higher than the print version.)
Read MoreIn case you missed them...
Last week I published a few articles you might find useful, interesting or both.
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Time to get rid of some books <Sniff>
In the process of identifying which books to send off to a new home, I’ve discovered some books I’d forgotten about and now look forward to reading (again).
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slumped, by Terry Freedman
Longer School Days and Extra Workload: Mullah Nasrudin's Donkey
Many people seem to think that the solution to helping students catch up on their lost schooling is to have longer school days. Presumably these extra lessons will be taught by teachers, when they’re not marking and re-marking exam papers.
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Think outside the box, by Terry Freedman
Technology and communication: less leads to more -- Updated
When it comes to communication, being restricted is definitely better, ie more conducive to effectiveness, than having no limits at all.
Read MoreIn case you missed it: Converting an offline course to an online one -- ebook
This is a fairly comprehensive account of the steps I went through to convert a course from one I taught in a physical classroom to one I could teach online.
Read MoreIn case you missed it: Converting an offline course to an online one Checklist
In case you missed this when I posted it during half-term… I’ve written a long article about how I converted a course I’d taught in a classroom to one I was able to teach online. You can grab a checklist version of it in the form of a pdf by signing up to my newsletter, Digital Education, which is free.
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Is price the only, or even the best, way to compete? Picture: 30pc off, by Terry Freedman
How is your product different?
If you sell a similar edtech product or service to that of another company, what is it that makes yours stand out?
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The ICT in Education website, 2000, by Terry Freedman.
There's nothing new about snowflakes
My first reaction when I see people ranting about some trivial thing on social media is to envy them for apparently having nothing terrible to worry about.
Read MoreHow to improve your chances of winning an award
Having been a judge for a number of awards, I’ve come across good practice and poor practice by entrants.
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