This book is as a timely addition to the debate around climate change.
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Book review: Engineering in Plain Sight
This book sets out to give assorted planners, architects, engineers and technicians their due, with its examinations of electricity distribution, communication platforms, roads, bridges and more besides.
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Book review: Story Machines
While the book is both detailed and enjoyable, it is not entirely convincing.
Read MoreMy Queen and I
A personal tribute.
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Book review: No Excuses Turning around one of Britain’s toughest schools
Written mainly in the form of a diary, this is an account of how Colwell’s headship changed the culture of a community’s school.
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Book review: Futureproof: A comprehensive framework for teaching digital citizenship in schools
The growing importance of digital citizenship isn’t just evident from what we hear in the news, but also recent findings from Ofsted that students often aren’t as digitally literate as teachers tend to assume.
Read MoreBook review: Brave New World -- the graphic novel version
in some respects, Brave New World seems closer to our lived reality than does Orwell’s 1984.
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In case you missed them (or had forgotten about them): memory articles
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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What makes a good training day? 12 suggestions and a link
Training days don't have to be dire. If you have choice in how you spend at least some of the day, here are twelve suggestions, plus a link to a humorous audio recording.
Read MoreAmazon Study
Amazon has launched Amazon Study. It comprises free resources in maths and science for different age groups.
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4 things to bear in mind when using Google Classrooms as a teacher
These are the things I’ve discovered from personal experience.
Read MoreSummer reading #3: Algorithms
Jeff Erickson has made his book on algorithms (the title is a bit of a giveaway) available for free.
Read MoreSummer reading #2: What's the problem? Won't Google Translate sort it?
Why bother asking someone to translate anything, given that Google Translate will probably do a reasonable-ish job in a fraction of a second?
Read MoreWestminster Forum conference on Computing education: First impressions
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!
Read MoreSummer reading #1: OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature
I’ve started to compile a list of books 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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Reading, by Terry Freedman
Coming soon: my summer reading list
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.
Read MoreSome thoughts on memory, and especially 'working memory'
My position is that I think the idea of ‘working memory’ is misapplied and, in any case, unnecessary.
Read MoreFeedback From A Course Called Writing The Oulipo
It’s been estimated that if you were to read one a minute for 24 hours a day it would take you around 200 million years to get through them all.
Read MoreReview: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
This book differs from many of the books and articles I’ve read about memory because it delves into the physical changes that occur in different situations.
Read MoreBlogging is alive and kicking, and a good thing to do
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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