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Now I know that I’ve made it as a DP teacher. I am quoted in the official IB community blog. (Yes it’s although way down in the 10th paragraph. Behind my friends Joel and Dennis,…
Now I know that I’ve made it as a DP teacher. I am quoted in the official IB community blog. (Yes it’s although way down in the 10th paragraph. Behind my friends Joel and Dennis,…
This year I have been very lucky to be a very small part of an incredibly impressive international team revamping the IBDP Information Technology in a Global Society course. As a part of that work…
Update: Our work is becoming official! The IBDP blog has just announced the upcoming new Digital Society Class. Check it out! I am very proud and so excited. https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2018/06/07/dp-digital-society-is-coming/ So the ITGS redesign is in…
I wanted to share my favorite ITGS project ever that my students and I have developed: Design a digital utopia. I used this project as a fun final “capstone” project for the two year course.…
All work below is belongs to ASM ITGS Class of 2017, please contact author for any permissions. (Shadrach thanks them all for their great work and permission to display them here. Great job!) For the…
At this time of year I read a lot of best book lists and this year I decided to create my own. At first I thought I might not have read enough books to make…
This year I am teaching the two year IB Diploma course Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS). One of my goals for my class is to incorporate a bit of history about IT into…
Well, the 2012 PISA scores are out and Finland, the darling of the Western education world, has pretty much fallen off a cliff, while Asian city states now dominate the rankings. This means students can…
My weekly reads of note: I agree with this article, I do think social media and the internet are improving students writing skills. I also think we are collectively getting better at tests, not getting smarter as our…
How I wish every economist would read these books! British Economist John Kay’s five books recommendations are simply phenomenal. (Of course I have read three of the five so I may be biased). I’ve been…