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researchEDHome 2020 Jon Hutchinson: Seven Distinctions Every Subject Leader Should Know About (Notes)

  • Posted on May 14, 2020May 13, 2020

As part of my lock down, I’m determined to improve my knowledge when I get back to leading my department and teaching in-front of students (instead of behind a screen as I am doing now). One of things I’m trying to do is read more…

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Why Don’t Students Like School by Daniel T. Willingham (Notes)

  • Posted on May 13, 2020

As a birthday present to myself, I bought myself a used Kindle of eBay. Wow, why didn’t I do this before? It has revolutionised my time in lock down and vastly increased the amount of fiction and non-fiction I’m reading. My first non-fiction read was…

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How to Design Programs (HTDP) – Prologue Notes Part 2

  • Posted on April 30, 2020April 29, 2020

These are my notes from the book How to Design Programs available online here, using Racket and the Beginner Student Language (BSL) which is lot like the Scheme dialect of LISP. Look at Part 1 here. Prologue Part 2 Most of the code is commented out so…

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How to Design Programs (HTDP) – Prologue Notes Part 1

  • Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

These are my notes from the book How to Design Programs available online here, using Racket and the Beginner Student Language (BSL) which is lot like the Scheme dialect of LISP. Prologue Most of the code is commented out so I can run the latest…

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Computing Britain Episode 1 – Electronic Brains

  • Posted on April 28, 2020April 26, 2020

I recently stumbled across a brilliant podcast series called Computing Britain from the BBC. The first episode is the role Britain took in developing electronic memory, or “Electronic Brains“. It was originally from the BBC’s “Make it Digital” campaign that brought us the Micro:bit. It…

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