Time to Understand Blockchain

March 26, 2018

What is blockchain? A blockchain is a digital scaffolding for transactions.  We’ve heard a lot about it recently in relation to Bitcoin. Blockchain was developed about 10 years ago to scaffold cryptocurrency transactions.  Investopedia explains...

News Flash: Change for M18 HL Paper 1 Section B

March 9, 2018

This news flash may have escaped your attention. It was posted on 29 Jan 2018 to DP Coordinators. From the May 2018 examination session onwards, Section B of ITGS HL Paper 1 will consist of three questions from which candidates must answer one. This will mean that on...

How to Prepare Students for ITGS Examinations?

March 7, 2018

The months time between the Mock Examinations and the M18 ITGS Examinations is an intensive time for preparing students for  upcoming exams. Some starting points that may be incredibly helpful for guiding ITGS students: The M17 ITGS Subject Report is most...

Wikispaces is Closing

March 5, 2018

Wikispaces, a part of TES, announced last week that the site will close starting 31 July 2018. Why is Wikispaces closing? It costs too much: ‘Over the last twelve months we have been carrying out a complete technical review of the infrastructure and software we...

Planning Your Digital Afterlife

February 5, 2018

Do you own a portable phone? tablet? computer? Who do you/would you trust with the passwords, pins, puks, for the physical machines? Do you know how many online accounts do you have?  Who do you/would you trust with the passwords, security questions’ answers,...

MOOCs, Artificial Intelligence, and Models of Thinking

January 15, 2018

A little background reading for this post: First, a quick Wikipedia definition of MOOC: ‘A massive open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed...