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When my room was flooded at three in the morning while staying in a Marriott hotel in Los Angeles, an assistant helped me to relocate to a different – and drier! – room. As compensation for the inconvenience, she gave me a voucher for a free breakfast in the morning. Bleary-eyed, I accepted it. On waking…
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There has been quite a bit of research carried out concerning the effects of technology on health, mental health and wellbeing. Although the picture is not 100% positive, there seems to be more on the credit side of the balance sheet than on the debit side.
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What can the writings of a long-dead theorist tell today's teachers?
Read MoreIf you need to run webinars or video conference calls for your customers, or make recommendations regarding one for your schools, what are the options?
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Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman
The first thing that struck me when doing the research for this article is how often the terms “blended learning” and “hybrid learning” seem to be used to mean whatever the writer wants them to mean.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
In my experience, an expectation of compliance was baked in to the system, and that really does mitigate against innovation.
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Even where there is no outright fraud involved, simple statistical errors, “publication bias” and perverse incentives can render “breakthroughs” less noteworthy when the studies reporting them are looked at more closely.
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Shopping mall, by Terry Freedman
It’s difficult to predict the future, so please regard this article as a reflection of what may happen and probably should happen in the area of marketing in the coming year.
Read MoreThis is an example of why hype can, in own way, be dangerous. It detracts time, energy and financial resources away from interventions that may be less exciting to look at but which actually work better.
Read MoreThe potential for the education of blockchain technology is huge. It’s largely associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but it has far wider implications.
Read MoreCan technology have a beneficial effect on mental health and wellbeing?
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Footprints -- Covid19, by Terry Freedman
What has been the experience of teachers during this pandemic? An interim report will be discussed in a couple of virtual symposia.
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Is this book useful as a quick way in to educational research that’s relevant to classroom practice?
Read MoreWill robots and AI take over from teachers?
Read MoreI’ve gone slightly off-topic with this book review, but I thought it provided an interesting thesis which may be useful to consider as part of bigger picture than only technology.
Read MoreCan a book that summarises educational theories in a series of vignettes be a substitute for in-depth study?
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If 10% of studies in neuroscience are flawed, how can you know which ones are OK?
Read MoreYou could imbibe the entire day’s news just by reading the first paragraph of each article in the newspaper. But what you would miss out on is any nuance or deep explanation. Unfortunately, when research in ed tech is reported in news outlets, the nuances and caveats, and useful information like sample size, are lost as well.
Read MoreAn interesting experiment was carried out a few years ago in the USA. A school sent out postcards to parents simply asking them to improve their child’s attendance.
Read MoreTalk Triggers is a word-of-mouth marketing guide with a difference: lots of examples of success stories, but also a logical analysis of why they worked.
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