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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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The other day a friend asked me what “ROFL” meant. It’s IM-speak for “Rolling On the Floor Laughing” and I’ve just found a great place to use it. One of the more dubious privileges of running a business is that you meet quite a lot of marketing consultants who patronise you about your website/mailshots/adverts/blog and…
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Exactly one month ago today, I enjoyed a lengthy chinwag with Steve Margetts about wikis in education. Having set the world to rights, and (perhaps rashly) promised Steve free hosting, I blogged the conversation and forgot all about it. Steve didn’t. He got busy, and exactly four weeks later I find WikiTextbook has sprouted, beanstalk-like,…
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Jef Raskin, the original developer of the Macintosh, died on Saturday. Goodbye old friend (whom I never met, and knew only through your designs), and thank you for 20 years of pleasurable computing.
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It was exactly 403 years to the day that Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary: …to the Opera, and there saw Romeo and Juliet, the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life… (full entry) Well, I beg to differ, Mr…
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The BBC blithely reports Government spin that Asian and black pupils made the greatest rate of improvement in GCSEs in England last year. Underneath the headline, here are the proportions of students getting 5 or more Cs at GCSE, by race: Black Caribbean 35.7% Black African 43% Pakistani 45.0% White 52.3% Indian 66.6% Chinese 74.2%…
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