Child Exploitation in Mining Cobalt

March 15, 2017

More than half of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Cobalt is a key element in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries required for mobile consumer products such as cellphones, laptops and other mobile devices....

Encoding and Decoding

March 13, 2017

Anyone connected to ICT and education is familiar with the word “code” – and recently “Teach the kids to code” is all the rage. It usually implies that we should teach kids the fundamentals of computer programming. (In this post I’m...

The Right Questions

March 6, 2017

This morning I read this post by David Hoffeld, on FastCompany: Want To Know What Your Brain Does When It Hears A Question? “Questions hijack the brain. The moment you hear one, you literally can’t think of anything else. And that can be a powerful...

Check Twitter Settings

February 27, 2017

The use of Twitter by Donald Trump has prompted a hacker, WauchulaGhost, to point out security precautions to the President and also serve as an alert to any Twitter user. Many IB teachers use Twitter and post to IB-related hashtags # and follow @ postings relating to...

Terminology – Getting ITGS Right

February 22, 2017

It is not possible to communicate ITGS unless an appropriate range of ITGS terminology has been developed.  This does not only mean for use in class discussions, but equally important for writing both documentation for ITGS Projects and responding to questions on ITGS...

Alternative Facts

February 13, 2017

This week a post on The Adventures of Library Girl (a blog by written by Jennifer LaGarde,  the Lead School Library Media Coordinator/Digital Teaching and Learning Specialist for New Hanover County Schools in Wilmington, NC.) titled Fake News, Alternative Facts and...