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ITGS is a dynamic subject and this is evident in news-breaking stories everyday. News items seem fall into several categories some of which evolve over time. News items can be: one off occurrences that are...

It is most encouraging to see the growing number of candidates achieving a high grade in the Internal Assessment paper. Any competent student of Philosophy should approach this task with great confidence and a way...

In Ontario there has been a move away from the standard terms of ‘formative’ and ‘summative’ assessment to: Assessment as learning Assessment for learning (Formative) Assessment of learning (Summative) Assessment as learning got me thinking....

In my last post, we explored social bookmarking with Diigo as a way to collect and share Internet resources.  In this post, we’re going to take  a step further, and look at “curating” with Flipboard....

This years examiner’s report offers the usual recurring complaints of the failure of candidates to meet the formal requirements for each assessment component, which are frankly unforgivable mostly of the teachers in supervising these candidates,...

Recently I have discovered by chance a book that many of you may already know – “Thinking Mathematically” by J.Mason, L.Burton and K.Stacey.   As it is usually the case, one thing leads to another (click after...

This is what the Observer offers on this short narrative about ‘the Queen’ passionately taking up reading.  Alan Bennett tells a great tale, with a two-fold benefit:  a short respite from cockroach despair, the guillotine,...

As I read examination papers from the November session,  I see, that as always, students seem perennially challenged by  spelling two important literary terms: RHYTHM and RHYME.  I was curious to see if anyone on...

Both British writers and philosophers C.S Lewis and Aldous Huxley share the strange privilege of dying on the same day as J.F Kennedy, on 22 November 1963. Despite their international notoriety, their death was overshadowed,...

“We know who you are, where you have been and what you will be doing in the future”. The film ‘Minority Report’ released in 2002, predicted a future where billboards recognised passers-by via facial recognition,...

As international agencies struggle to deliver much needed supplies to survivors, there are reports that more storms might be on the way. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-12/philippines-braces-for-high-death-toll-new-storm/5084700?section=australianetworknews In response to the destruction, the loss of life, and the severe...

Do you teach basic drawing skills?   In February 2012 the always creative and occasionally provocative Jayson Paterson started a thread on the OCC forum entitled “Is Drawing Dead?” Since then there have been 16...