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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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What a strange book this is!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreOn this day, by Terry Freedman
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 More“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 MoreRobot, 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
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 MoreIf 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.
Read MoreDiscussing, by Terry Freedman
Is there anyone in the Department for Education who understands that education is more than issuing edicts?
Read MoreConference, by Terry Freedman
* UPDATED * The folks at Westminster Forum are running a very timely conference on 11 March 2020, about the future of edtech.
Read MoreThis 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 MoreI’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.
Read MoreThis is the sort of feedback you want.
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.
Read MoreComputing Outdoors. Cover by William Lau.
How can you learn some Computing without being cooped up in front of a screen? William Lau has the answer.
Read MoreQuestion mark, by Terry Freedman
Running a conference, a webinar or a series of webinars, can be a very useful marketing tool for a company.
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