There is still a great interest in writing blogs. One of the reasons I know this is that my course on blogging currently has twelve sign-ups. That may not sound a lot, but many courses at the City Lit have far fewer.
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What if an amazing technology like time travel were used purely and simply as a form of punishment?
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The writer does an excellent job of both reflecting the annoyance of dealing with a computer program that has no flexibility as well as no intelligence, and highlighting the need for programs to invite human input when the consequences of not doing so can be catastrophic.
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Every so often I read some pundit, or usually a journalist pretending to be a pundit, suggesting that blogs are dead. What can I say? They’re not.
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Here is a list of predictions I made in 2001 about the classroom of the future, with an evaluation of its accuracy.
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I used Google’s Notebook LM to summarise this report. I have done this to bring the report and its main points to your attention, and to put Notebook LM through its paces.
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My views on what constitutes a book on edtech are fairly catholic. Indeed, it would me more accurate to denote the books I review as books for teachers of ICT, Computing, digital literacy etc etc,, rather than books on edtech. The latter tend to have titles like “How to teach Computing”, or “How to use Excel in the classroom”.
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So many authors think they ought to be the recipient of the Nobel prize for literature.
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It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.
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Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...
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Sometimes, the elevator speech I hear was presumably crafted whilst going from the top floor to the bottom floor in a very tall building.
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I’ve been experimenting a lot with using AI, especially for summarising long documents. But the summaries lacked the human touch.
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The Computing curriculum report from Kings College makes some great recommendations for fixing the failures of the current curriculum.
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