My key messages to would-be bloggers.
Read MoreSubscriptions: too much of a good thing?
It’s incredibly easy to ask people to pay for your content these days. Is that an entirely good thing?
Read MoreWhat will ed tech demonstrator schools demonstrate?
Is the Department for Education’s Demonstrator Schools initiative likely to be useful, or just a red herring?
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Research reading, by Terry Freedman
Teaching Computing: What the research says
What do we know about the pedagogy of teaching Computing? Do teachers spot students’ misconceptions? Can general principles of instruction be applied to the teaching of Computing? Plus other interesting questions.
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Questions, by Terry Freedman
The best part of the Initial Teacher Training Core Framework is the References section
Is it surprising that the recently-published initial teacher training core framework contains no reference to education technology?
Read MoreAlexa, don't do as you're told
Should we be polite to virtual assistants?
Read MoreAsk the expert UPDATED
What can a Zen outlook teach us about educational ICT and Computing?
Read MoreChoosing the right education technology conference UPDATED
How to decide whether the so-called “experts” at a forthcoming conference are likely to impart any useful, actionable information.
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Review of Computing and Related Qualifications
Bob Harrison writes: “We have a computing curriculum and suite of qualifications which neither meet the needs of all pupils nor the needs of a rapidly evolving digital workplace and world.”
Read MoreNot So Fast (Updated)
I once worked out, around 10 years ago, that there was a new education initiative on average every two weeks.
Read More4 Reasons that doing IT on the cheap is an error of judgement UPDATED
I’ve read about schools beating the budget blues by building their own visualisers, interactive whiteboards and computers. In my opinion these measures are a mistake. When it comes to education technology, the focus should be on value for money and cost-effectiveness rather than simply saving money.
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Review of Dear Data
This book covers an immense range of the kinds of data that we ‘store’. The authors spent a year sending each other weekly, themed postcards. These contained not words, but pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read MoreThe value of email in a recession UPDATED
Here’s a cartoon you may find amusing in these rather austere times!
Read MorePictures as stimulii UPDATED
You should encourage your students to always carry a camera of some description with them at all times. And if you are a Head of Department, encourage your staff to do the same.
Read MoreQualitative data is important too UPDATED
I'm a great believer in using different kinds of data to measure how well pupils are doing, not all of which are quantifiable in the usual sense.
Read MoreWhat’s the story? UPDATED
How I hate the word “narrative”! At least, I detest the way it has been usurped by smart-suited political advisers who say things like “We need a new narrative”.
But sometimes, like now, I get what they are talking about, though I prefer to use the word “story”. And my question is: what is the story, what is the whole experience, of Computing in your school?
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Pardon? By Terry Freedman
The usefulness of data
A technical support reporting system is only as good as the information you can extract from it.
Read More5 Must-have conference apps UPDATED
If you go to at least one conference a year, you should consider using one or more of these apps.
Read More11 criteria for evaluating a school’s education technology UPDATED
Whether you are moving to a new school, or staying where you are, it’s good to stand back and try to gauge what the school’s education technology is like. Why you would want to do that if taking up a new post is obvious: you want to see how the land lies so that you can start to identify any improvements that could be made.
Think outside the box, photo by Terry Freedman
Tony Parkin's "Non-review" of the Bee Digital Marketing to Schools Summit 2019
“Disruptive technologist” Tony Parkin has performed a valuable service by collating the tweets relating to the recent Marketing to Schools Summit. Here is a link to his round-up.
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