A couple of weeks ago, I picked up an Inventorium flyer in Tog (wonder who left them there!), and I thought I would register/apply for their symposium in the Science Gallery, now tomorrow night, as the themes appear to touch on many of the education and tech topics that …

I added a notice to my previous courses notes to indicate that they are now available under the CC-BY-NC license. I don't know if it'll be in any way useful -- as I'm well aware the courses could use a huge amount of improvement (working on it!) -- but it seems worth …

I got "How to survive your first year in teaching" after finding some very positive reviews and it's been worth every cent -- from the beginning I had to stop reading to take notes and add bookmarks for future reference. The target is "real" teachers (at the primary and secondary level …

After a bit of tension over securing a room, someone sorted us out and I will therefore be teaching another introduction to programming with Python, to a group of beginners, starting Monday! Exciting. I have a draft of everything I want to do on the first day, I need to …

Here's an interesting article, "Cheating in Computer Science", that was recently posted on the IAEP mailing list. It's quite short and the problems it describes are worth mulling over:

• Why do we call "cheating" what will later in life be called "collaborating" and be a critical quality for success?
• Why …