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I think we've got something that does that - we also have an AEG oven, so maybe it's that. It seems even more odd that it goes from 24.00 to 0.01.
I was having a debate with the family about why the scrolling letters look sloped when the rows of LEDs are vertical. I reckoned it was an illusion caused by the LEDs refreshing a row at a time - and tried to capture photographic evidence.
Students using computers are much more likely to get distracted, e.g. by looking things up and checking out related resources. Hyperlinks in text provided by teachers are even a distraction if you don't click on them. There's mixed evidence about note-taking, but some see handwritten as better.
Old-school schools! www.reuters.com/world/europe...
This autumn, pupils in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books after a decade of state-backed promotion of laptops and other digital devices in the classroom.
How do you decide which programming tasks are suitable for GCSE? My rough rule of thumb is whether I can see a solution straight away, e.g. in less than a minute. Quite often, though, I have a better idea the next day, so I was interested to see this. neurosciencenews.com/sleep-decisi...
A new study reveals that while snap judgments heavily influence decisions made immediately, "sleeping on it" helps people make more rational choices.
I've been doing some research and it seems that there was quite a falling out. This article says that TNMOC was still being promoted in 2014, but we saw nothing on Sunday. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The world's first programmable computer, Colossus, is fenced off from visitors to the rest of the wartime codebreaking site in the latest chapter in a dispute between volunteers and management, writes...
On Sunday I went to Bletchley Park for the first time in about twenty years. It's changed a lot - it's less derelict now and has a car park and a gift shop, but last time we went to a talk on Lorenz, and this time there were no talks, little about Lorenz and no Colossus.
How many topics do you think there are in GCSE Computer Science? I think I might have got it down to three! www.advanced-ict.info/blog/reducin...
Can we reframe the GCSE content to make it easier to deliver?