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.
Read More7 Expectations for Computing lessons (update)
I don’t think rules, as commonly formulated, are very useful in the context of Computing lessons.
Read MoreReview: Support Not Surveillance: How to solve the teacher retention crisis
Dr Bousted makes a strong case for major reform of the parts of the education system in England that has a direct impact on teachers – and therefore on students.
Read MoreComing soon in Digital Education July 2022 (updated)
At some point soon I shall be sending out the latest issue of Digital Education. It contains a lot of useful links, analysis of recent reports and some very interesting reading. It should have gone out this weekend, but I’ve added more to it.
Read MoreComing soon in Digital Education July 2022
At some point this weekend I shall be sending out the latest issue of Digital Education. It contains a lot of useful links, analysis of recent reports and some very interesting reading.
Read MoreThe likely effects of the commercialisation of higher education were hiding in plain sight for decades
Some people think that if people want to study a subject that doesn’t benefit anyone else, why should everyone else pay for it? However…
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Terry: dreading the bombardment of ill-informed views!
Twitter toxicity: Beware the ultracrepidarians - revisited
It all started with Brexit. At least, that’s when I first became aware of the preponderance of people who are more than happy to pontificate about, and lecture the rest of us on, a subject of which they have no expertise.
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