Follow the signs to a couple of new newsletters. Photo: Signpost pointing right, by Terry Freedman
After a year of weighing up the pros and cons I decided to start a couple of publications on Substack. One is about literature and life in general, and the other one is focused on education more generally
Read MoreMy review of this book has just been published in Teach Secondary magazine. The review there is slightly different from the one I submitted, so I’ve included my original one here as text, and the Teach Secondary one as a scan.
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Printing press, by Terry Freedman
When I started at a school where part of my role was to encourage other teachers to use the education technology facilities, one of the strategies I used was to produce fake news stories using the school’s desktop publishing software.
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A still-relevant article from a few years ago.
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Handshake, by Terry Freedman
Why I’m unfollowing people more and more.
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TfL data by Terry Freedman
Elaine keeps telling me to remember to clock in and out at stations, even if the barriers are open. She’s right.
Read MoreThere are some interesting-looking books at the top of the to-be-reviewed pile. This is one of them.
Read MoreThere are some interesting-looking books at the top of the to-be-reviewed pile. This is one of them.
Read MoreAs far as I’m aware no Education Secretary has had the ability or the courage to deal with the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Read MoreOverall the book is a good investment, although I did have some quibbles with it.
Read MoreIf you want to see the humble brag elevated to an art form, this is the book for you.
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Crowds and queues, by Terry Freedman
When I saw several hundred people lining up for some sort of job registration recently, I immediately thought of the challenges of assessing pupils’ educational technology capability. A bit of a stretch? Not necessarily.
Assessment machine, by Terry Freedman
If AI generates an essay, and another AI grades it, has anything useful actually happened?
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“Erm, what?” Photo by Tadeusz Lakota on Unsplash
The Department for Education’s newly beefed-up National Tutoring Scheme enables schools to arrange tutoring for their students at discounted rate is purely voluntary, but…
Read MoreEvery time I attend an educational ICT conference, at least one of the speakers talks about how little we know about the future. But their argument doesn’t make sense.
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Lights and alleyway, by Terry Freedman
Has there ever been such a frenzy of thinking and activity over a concept which does not even exist? I am referring, of course, to the ridiculous notion of so-called '21st century skills'.
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Dystopian Visions, by Terry Freedman
What really happens when a computer is invented that can make every decision in a war?
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Dystopian Visions, by Terry Freedman
The potentially devastating consequences of a drive for efficiency to the nth degree are shown in this science fiction story.
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Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
You want the review to be fair, but you also want it to be honest. Maybe being honest is neither objective nor neutral.
Read MoreWell, it's spring again, and time for a good clean-up. Here is a checklist for the ed tech co-ordinator.
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