So many authors think they ought to be the recipient of the Nobel prize for literature.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #5 The rule of encouragement (Updated)
How important is encouragement to Olympic class athletes? I’d like to start off with an admission of error….
Read MoreBook review: Terry Freedman's Dispatches from the Chalkface, reviewed by Connie Chelsea
Dispatches from the Chalkface is an important book because it provides a rare, inside look at the day-to-day reality of teaching in a classroom. Terry Freedman, the author, is a veteran teacher with over 30 years of experience, and in this book he shares his insights and wisdom gained from years of working with students.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #4 The rule of expert guidance (Updated)
A conversation that has never taken place, and probably will never take place.
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What if "she" decided whether or not you got the job?
8 ideas for story-writing in Computing
Here are 8 ideas for encouraging pupils to write stories on Computing and related topics.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #3 The rule of eclecticism (Updated)
I’ve called today’s rule the rule of eclecticism because it’s about learning from different, and disparate, disciplines.
Read MoreEsoteric programming languages (Revisited)
Programming languages are meant to be useful, right? I mean, I didn’t miss a memo or anything? That’s what I thought too. However…
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Lessons from the world of sports: #2 The rule of detailed analysis (Updated)
Anyone who voluntarily leaps off a board which is 10 metres high – imaging three double-decker buses stacked on top of each other with a car balancing on top – has to be nuts. That’s not me saying that, but Leon Taylor…
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Question mark - Terry Freedman
National Coding Week: why? (Updated)
I’ve always been of the strong opinion that (a) people should talk about programming, not coding, and (b) people learn best on a kind of need to know basis.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #1 The 1% improvement rule (Updated)
Small, perhaps seemingly insignificant, improvements can make a big difference.
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No laughing matter
It seems that everyone is worried about causing offence, or maybe just concerned about being accused of wasting time.
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Question mark, by Terry Freedman
Yes, But What Do I Actually Have To Do? (updated)
Would you know what to do if you were listening to you?
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Screenshot of part of the People Database, by Terry Freedman
An interesting way to make use of pivot tables
Pivot tables help you to see possible questions that might otherwise have remained hidden.
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My automated assessment machine
My issues with assessment by AI
I have serious misgivings about the use of AI to assess students’ work.
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Book review: Climate Change for Dummies
This book is as a timely addition to the debate around climate change.
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Book review: Engineering in Plain Sight
This book sets out to give assorted planners, architects, engineers and technicians their due, with its examinations of electricity distribution, communication platforms, roads, bridges and more besides.
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Book review: Story Machines
While the book is both detailed and enjoyable, it is not entirely convincing.
Read MoreMy Queen and I
A personal tribute.
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Book review: No Excuses Turning around one of Britain’s toughest schools
Written mainly in the form of a diary, this is an account of how Colwell’s headship changed the culture of a community’s school.
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Book review: Futureproof: A comprehensive framework for teaching digital citizenship in schools
The growing importance of digital citizenship isn’t just evident from what we hear in the news, but also recent findings from Ofsted that students often aren’t as digitally literate as teachers tend to assume.
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