I’ve compiled a number of reviews of non-fiction books that either deal with helping people detect untruths (such as in so-called scientific research) or presenting something as true when, in fact, it isn’t.
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You can build up a body of work without having to try going through gatekeepers.
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These links were first highlighted in the Digital Education newsletter.
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I have lots of thoughts about education in general too. Here’s some information about another newsletter I write, about education in general.
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I have recently had a glimpse of techno-utopia. It is not pretty.
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Governments should not interfere in the education marketplace
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So many authors think they ought to be the recipient of the Nobel prize for literature.
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I’ve always been of the strong opinion that (a) people should talk about programming, not coding, and (b) people learn best on a kind of need to know basis.
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It seems that everyone is worried about causing offence, or maybe just concerned about being accused of wasting time.
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Just before the end of the last school year I published an article about memory, and a review of a book about memory.
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I’ve started to compile a list of books and other kinds of reading matter you might wish to explore over the holidays. They’re not all to do with edtech — we all need a break!
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For my end-of-term newsletter I’ve compiled a short reading list, not all the items on which are concerned with edtech. After all, everyone deserves a break.
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My position is that I think the idea of ‘working memory’ is misapplied and, in any case, unnecessary.
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Every so often I read a blog post or a ‘commentary’ on Twitter by some self-appointed guru or other saying that blogging is passé.
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At some point soon I shall be sending out the latest issue of Digital Education. It contains a lot of useful links, analysis of recent reports and some very interesting reading. It should have gone out this weekend, but I’ve added more to it.
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At some point this weekend I shall be sending out the latest issue of Digital Education. It contains a lot of useful links, analysis of recent reports and some very interesting reading.
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Some people think that if people want to study a subject that doesn’t benefit anyone else, why should everyone else pay for it? However…
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It all started with Brexit. At least, that’s when I first became aware of the preponderance of people who are more than happy to pontificate about, and lecture the rest of us on, a subject of which they have no expertise.
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In 1994 I set out with my wife to discover the best place to buy a computer system -- and discovered a lot of sexism along the way.
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