So lovely to welcome our new secondary PGCE trainees to campus yesterday. Looking forward to working with computing trainees.
And more (from HMI in 1988): "The teacher supply situation in computing continues to be desperate ... pupils are being deprived of opportunities to develop specialist interests in computing as a creative technological activity"
By 1988: "SoS has responded to HMI's report and to pressure from IT advisers by setting up a working group to report on ways in which IT training can be given to all teachers in ITT, and how good practice might be spread"
"The use of IT in learning is now sufficiently common in schools that it should be included in the curriculum of all students in initial training" HMI, back in 1987! I'm spending the afternoon in the archives...
Delighted to see the publication of The Royal Society's Mathematical Futures report today, which it's been a huge privilege to contribute to. See royalsociety.org/news-resourc... for the report...
The Mathematical Futures programme aims to build a new vision of mathematics education that anticipates needs and reinforces the role of mathematics in society.
Lots of fun (and learning?) getting Bard to role play as historical figures - I think it gets into the spirit of this much more than ChatGPT does. Of course, it may still make things up, which would never happen with a human historian. cc @mrshistorylee.bsky.social
Hi Eylan - yes, am Oxford bound next Thursday :-)