I’m hoping to get things back to normal soon, that is, publishing articles several times a week.
Read MoreDo not adjust your set, by Terry Freedman
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Review of Science Fictions (Teach Secondary)
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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Review of The Read Aloud Cloud
What a strange book this is!
Read MoreChecklist: Converting an offline course to an online one
In case you missed this when I posted it during half-term… I’ve written a long article about how I converted a course I’d taught in a classroom to one I was able to teach online.
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On this day, by Terry Freedman
On this day #22: When to be over-cautious
I’ve seen a lot of half-baked initiatives emanating from schools. As for governments, well it’s almost what we’ve come to expect.
Read MoreResearch, teacher training, teachers' email addresses -- in the year 2000
“It seems to me that the folks at the Teacher Training Agency have not so much *lost* the plot as are still looking for it.” Another delve into the edtech issues of the day in the year 2000!
Read MoreFree books on Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Deep Learning and others
Robot, by Terry Freedman
Author Mark Watson has generously made some of his ebooks available free of charge. See the books section of his website:
If you wish to pay for them, there is a choose-your-price (within certain limits) over at Leanpub, where you can also see the books’ tables of contents and blurbs.
Terry Freedman qualified as a teacher in 1975, has written for educational publications since 1989, and has published this website since 1995.
Don’t frustrate your visitors! Drawing by Terry Freedman
We have contact... or do we?
The average attention span of internet users is virtually zilch. According to an article, people spend under 6 seconds looking at a website’s content. Can your contact details be found in less time than that?
Read MoreBroadband in schools -- circa 2003
If you look up broadband in schools, the story these days is that the provision is deemed “inadequate”. I think that’s a lot to do with how aspirations have risen over the past couple of decades, and is therefore a good thing.
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Discussing, by Terry Freedman
Discussing exam grades with students
Is there anyone in the Department for Education who understands that education is more than issuing edicts?
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Conference, by Terry Freedman
Conference: The future of education technology UPDATED
* UPDATED * The folks at Westminster Forum are running a very timely conference on 11 March 2020, about the future of edtech.
Read MoreConverting an offline course to an online one: ebook
This is a fairly comprehensive account of the steps I went through to convert a course from one I taught in a physical classroom to one I could teach online.
Read MoreConverting an offline course to an online one checklist
I’ve written a long article about how I converted a course I’d taught in a classroom to one I was able to teach online.
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How to run an event without tears
I’ll never forget once at a conference where the organisers, rather unfairly I thought, put on a talk by an unknown teacher at the same time as a keynote speech by a big name speaker. The latter’s talk was on the challenges faced in running a school, and what to do about them – even though he had never run a school.
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Computing Outdoors. Cover by William Lau.
Review: Computing Outdoors
How can you learn some Computing without being cooped up in front of a screen? William Lau has the answer.
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Question mark, by Terry Freedman
Why should an edtech company run a conference?
Running a conference, a webinar or a series of webinars, can be a very useful marketing tool for a company.
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Archives, by Terry Freedman
The Key Stage 3 ICT Scheme of Work, NOF Training, and other issues in 2000
“There are people around now who are 17 years old. They started formal schooling when they were 5 years old -- in 1988. And some of them have come out of school not knowing one end of a computer from the other!” I hope this still isn’t the case today, but then I tend to be an optimist.
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Me after writing the article
Completed at last: my longest blog post ever
Adult learners may have different characteristics from younger ones (at least theoretically), but decisions like matching the technology to ones pedagogy, how to assess progress, what resources to use, how to conduct discussions — all these, surely, are pretty much the same challenge in both cases?
Read MoreShould Writers and other content creators Enjoy Copyright Protection?
We don’t say, “Nice factory you’ve built up there, but it’s unfair that you get to keep it for more than a few years, and even if you do, you can’t pass it on in your will.” Who would bother investing their own time and money in the enterprise if they thought that would be the outcome?
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In the cloud, by Terry Freedman
Taking a course online
This morning I completed my magnum opus (nearly 3,500 words) on the process I went through when converting a course from one I’d taught in a physical classroom to one I could teach online.
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