If you are responsible for the ed tech/Computing/ICT training in your school, here are a few questions which you might like to consider.
Read MoreTraining manual, by Terry Freedman
Training manual, by Terry Freedman
Ideas for In-Service Training for ed tech teachers
The dreaded training day season looms. But the event doesn’t have to be awful as it frequently is.
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Angry, by Terry Freedman
16 pet hates about presentations and presenters
The season of training days and outside speakers is upon us. Here are 16 presentation and presenter quirks that drive me nuts.
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Hearts, by Terry Freedman
My Best IT Training Days #6: It's like dating for the first time!
An interesting piece of feedback related to training in using education technology in lessons!
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The Scream, by Terry Freedman (with apologies to Munch)
Viruses and other nasties are a leadership issue
How vulnerable are schools to viruses and so on? Here are the results of a survey, plus some comments on the role of the ed tech leader in the school.
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Frustration, by Terry Freedman
How to fix a paper jam that doesn't exist
If your printer keeps telling you there’s a paper jam when there isn’t, you aren’t necessarily going insane. This suggestion worked for me.
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
My Best IT Training Days #5: The girl with the website
Why knowing what the pupils in a class do digitally in their spare time can be a good idea.
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Whiteboard, by Terry Freedman
My worst IT Training Days #5: Whiteboard not working
Worthy cogitations about what I might have done to avoid being faced with a non-working whiteboard — and why that situation arose in the first place.
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A page from Cool Coding.
What I'm reading: Cool Coding
A few initial thoughts on a book about programming and how computers work.
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Class, by Terry Freedman
My best IT Training Days #4: Using Year 7 kids
What were the benefits of using children to take a staff IT training session?
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admin burden, by Terry Freedman
My worst IT training days #4: Too much admin on a course
How the admin involved in a course led to its being abandoned by one group of trainers.
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A world run by artificial intelligence: Zed
Technology has always provided a rich seam of possibilities to be mined by authors. In this book Joanna Kavenna imagines a dystopian future in which an AI company is running things.
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What I've been reading: Offline
Why do many people seem to be addicted to their smartphones? This book explains how we get drawn in to constantly checking for updates, and suggests what we might do about it.
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The Press Association, by Terry Freedman
My Best IT Training Days #3: A visit to the Press Association
In this article I itemise the things which made a teacher visit to the Press Association in London so valuable. Perhaps it can serve as a checklist of “like-to-haves” for any teacher visit that you are organising.
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Books for the classroom, by Terry Freedman
How to get the most from school author visits
As well as having an ed tech library, why not look into inviting an author of a computing book to speak to your pupils?
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Windows LiveWriter, by Terry Freedman
My Best IT Training Days #2: Website development
How can you ensure that teachers who have signed up for your training day get the most out of it? The answer may prove unintuitive.
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Oh no! by Terry Freedman
My worst IT training days #3: Large-scale training
Using an external IT trainer is risky. Here are a few things to insist on to reduce the likelihood of a ruined training day.
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Handshake, by Terry Freedman
Breaking the social media contract
Why I’m unfollowing people more and more.
Read MoreTerms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel
If only all terms and conditions were presented like this!
Read MoreSolving the driverless car problem Part 3
The problem referred to in the title may be summarised as: who ya gonna kill? The car is hurtling along the road when a child steps out in front of it. The car is faced with a dilemma: kill the child, or the pedestrian waiting to cross the road, who would be in the car's path should it swerve to avoid the child. Terry Freedman explains why this whole thing is a red herring.
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