As the British Library’s event, ‘Breaking the News’ exhibition demonstrates, fake news has been a feature of news reporting for at least 500 years.
Read More#Flashback Friday: Review of The Long Tail
The “Long Tail" has been lauded and quoted at length. But what does the book actually say, and how does it stand up to scrutiny. In this lengthy review I give it a cautious "thumbs up".
Read MoreReview of Tools for Teachers
My 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.
Read MoreQuick looks: Support Not Surveillance, by Dr Mary Bousted
As 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 MoreReview: The Self-Taught Computer Scientist: The beginner’s guide to data structures & algorithms
As its name suggests, this book is aimed at those who want to teach themselves computer science.
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Review: A student’s guide to Python for physical modelling
The book’s primary concern is enabling Python to be used for manipulating and plotting large datasets, dealing with image “noise” and other advanced topics.
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Quick look: The self-taught computer scientist
It’s a bit of a tall order, I think, to teach yourself computer science, as opposed to computer programming, because of the need to understand particular concepts.
Read MoreReview: The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
One of the things that I have found very puzzling is why victimhood has such a high status these days.
Read MoreTwenty things to do with a computer (Forward 50) -- My review for SchoolsWeek
This is hands-down the most interesting edtech book I received for review in 2021, and easily the most inspiring.
Read MoreReview: Teaching in the Online Classroom
An excellent observation is that even small changes can have profound effects.
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Review: Organise Ideas: Thinking by hand, Extending the mind
This book is by no means an easy read, but it’s worth persevering with. It explains why graphic organisers or, more accurately, word diagrams work, drawing on various cognitive-related theories to do so.
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Review: The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
This book will help teachers to address the parts of the Programme of Study concerned with computer systems, communications and online safety.
Read MoreReview: Audio for Authors (Yes, it IS relevant for teachers!)
Many moons ago I started my own podcast. It was called Terry Freedman’s Education Technology podcast, and it consisted of useful hints and tips for teachers of Computing and related subjects. I have to say that I found it hard going.
Read MoreReview: Teaching Machines
There seems to be no end of attempts to improve education by people who have either never worked in it, or not understood what they were looking at.
Read MoreReview: A Student's Guide to Python for Physical Modelling
While this book is comprehensive, and gives instructions step by step, it is not what you might call an idiot’s guide.
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Quick look: Organise Ideas (follow-up)
[When I was a teacher,] as with many of my blog posts these days, my own handouts and lesson summaries were festooned with drawings, diagrams and arrows.
Read MoreReview: Sort Your Brain Out
Instead of sitting down and having an actual break, you consume your lunch while diving into a pile of marking….
Read MoreReview: Teach Like a Champion
This book starts from the premise that while teaching is an art, it also relies on the mastery and application of skills.
Read MoreReview: Atlas of AI
This ‘Atlas’ takes students deep into the field of artificial intelligence which, according to Crawford, is actually neither artificial, nor intelligent.
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Review: Understanding and Using Educational Theories
What can the writings of a long-dead theorist tell today's teachers?
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