What is the “Digital World” Anyway?
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…
Category Archives: Innovation
Back to the HQ! – (June 2018 Exciting Update!)
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…
Creating a Digital Utopia
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.…
Life Cycle Consumer Electronic Project, Design to 3D (ITGS – Year 1)
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…
2015: Books I liked
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…
The Innovators: Ada Lovelace – Kindling the Fire
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…
What’s on the Web?
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…
What’s on the web?
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…
Economics Books Recommendations
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…
What’s on the Web?
I love tilt-shift photography. This amazing video, The Lion City from Keith Loutit shows why. It’s simply spectacular. Singapore has never seemed so ethereal yet vibrant. When I was a kid I loved playing with models for days…