A history of data storage and recovery
I once mentioned to the kids I was teaching how useful I found having CD-ROMs to store stuff on. “What?!”, they said. “You had CDs back then?”
Young people always seem to have a working assumption in life that the technology they use only came into existence when they did. Anything else is ancient history. With that in mind, perhaps your pupils will find the infographic below useful and interesting. It charts the development of data storage and recovery from the time of Babbage, in 1834. Along the way there are interesting articles, photos and videos.
Report on RM Apple Seminar
EdExec Live - ICT Matters: A conference worth going to
- Good topics, by which I mean not only ones about the latest fad but useful, down-to-earth ones too, and ones that make you think and reflect
- Good speakers, by which I mean people who are experts in their field, and not merely good entertainers
- An opportunity to meet and network with others
10 reasons to attend BETT
Computational thinking and spreadsheets
The BETT Blog Begins!
Ed Tech is fast, but education policy is faster
EdExec Live ICT Matters Conference coming soon
What is Computational Thinking?
British Gas and the Internet of Things
“Dear British”
and go on to say how pleased I am to receive the latest bill and how much pleasure I have in enclosing payment.
Blog Review: nhowie
Conference catch-up
It's been a busy period conference-wise. In the near future I hope to report on all of them: dealing with the new Computing Programme of Study, dealing with data and Ofsted, an RM Apple day and the awe-inspiring Apps World 2013.
A self-marking spreadsheet
I like a challenge so I thought I’d try to create a self-marking spreadsheet in Excel. (Look, some men like fast cars, some like sport, and some like womanising. Me? I like spreadsheets. OK?)
I was inspired to have a go at this by someone called Lee Rymill, who uploaded a self-marking spreadsheet to the CAS resources area. However, I wanted to take it a few steps further…
Read MoreWe don’t need no official scheme of work for Computing
Good riddance to levels in ICT and Computing
Yet this is precisely what the government expects.
9 Challenges of Project-Based Learning
Writing a book as a blog
More unintended uses of “Smart Glasses”
Running a successful Education Technology Project
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.
That well-known expression applies as much to running an ed tech project successfully as to anything else. In other words, for an ed tech project to succeed, you need to think about more than just the technology, or even the pedagogy. You have to think about management as well.