by studeapps | Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 | Uncategorized
Bill Gates, are you serious? Bill Gates has spoken about education. Speaking principally about the US education he speaks of his dream about good teaching: “you can take that top 10% and have them help the others to get best practices, the best teaching ideas to...
by studeapps | Sunday, November 26th, 2017 | Uncategorized
The chancellor, in between cough sweet and The Grand Tour jokes in parliament mentioned that there would be a tripling of trained computer science teachers to 12,000. While it is good to see this increase in prestige and focus for both Computer Science and...
by studeapps | Sunday, November 5th, 2017 | Uncategorized
The iPhone X launched last Friday for the incredible price of £999 in the UK, and that is before you take into account a case, calls or Apple’s AppleCare + insurance. Apple are an amazing company and make large margins with their iPhone. Can they make such an...
by studeapps | Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 | Uncategorized
A minister is apparently asking teachers at Universities for lists of lecturers who are teaching about Brexit (source: here). Perhaps the comparisons to 1984 and McCarthyism are overblown (although the principle that this Government may be benign, but the idea that...
by studeapps | Sunday, October 22nd, 2017 | Uncategorized
What does free mean? When people use the NHS, a service free at the point of delivery they may believe they are truly getting a free service. However this is demonstrably not true; the NHS is funded by taxpayers and the payment is indirect. When resources are given...
by studeapps | Saturday, October 21st, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Sir, my computer won’t turn on” says pupil turning the monitor on and off I often encounter teachers with complaints like the above. Follow-on discussions range from “Digital Natives: what can you do?” to “…and staff too.”....
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