I attend a lot of conferences, and over the years I've developed a useful set of criteria by which to evaluate them. Here, then, in no particular order, are my top 14 characteristics of a good conference.
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I think everyone involved in education should have a blog! Here, in no particular order, are my reasons.
Read MorePragmatism (Updated!)
Updated! It’s fine being a visionary, but somewhere along the line someone has to actually do something.
Read MoreOn this day: 27 December 2019 and 2022
On the ICT & Computing in Education blog I had one of my peridodic digs at politicians. Over on my Eclecticism newsletter I wrote about my writing process.
Read MoreAI gave me a sense of bereavement
A few years ago at a conference, an erstwhile colleague who was giving the keynote presentation referred to “My ex-colleague Terry Freedman, the Excel guru.” While flattering, it was more the case that I made a great deal of use of, at the time, Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications.
Read More18 Essential Elements of a Digital Financial Literacy Course
Here are my 18 suggestions for inclusion on a digital financial literacy course. This is an update of an article first published in 2011.
Read MoreReview: From EdTech to PedTech (excerpt)
Those of us who have held responsibility for embedding digital technology across a school will all have tales of well-meaning management who, frankly, didn’t have a clue.
Read MoreBanal projects
Boring projects are the worst kind of thing to give students. My way of thinking is simple: if you can’t think of anything exciting, get them to come up with something themselves.
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