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Can you remember a time when “bookmarking”  a website (or creating a “favorite”) meant saving its URL address somewhere in your computer, perhaps with a note or commentary, perhaps with a tag or keyword, and perhaps...

There are a few hints that can make a difference in your outcome.  What would I, as an examiner recommend?  Based on the May Subject Reports for 2013, here are 5 things that can make...

Since the May 2013 Subject Report was released in September I was asked to write this month’s teacher’s blog on it.  It is available on the Online Curriculum Center (OCC) on the home page of...

Last years subject exam reports highlighted that the students lost lots of marks and so grades from answering long answer questions in Paper 2 and 3 poorly as can be seen from some of their...

Is there such a thing as ‘bad’ philosophy? For Plato, philosophein is simply the best possible human activity, the closest thing to the leisurely existence of the Greeks gods. For this reason, the practically-minded Sophists...

The 4/PSWOT form and filling it in can be daunting at first – but one thing is always important to realise when finishing and sending off the portfolios of student work. This is that only...

I feel compelled to comment on the poor science that is in The Tomorrow People that I watched on television last night. The main protagonist (Stephen) has super powers that he has just discovered (I can...

  Yesterday the BBC published a curious article “Why is the number 1729 hidden in Futurama episodes?”. It is written by Simon Singh whose popular books about mathematics and science have been hugely successful. Some of them...

If you did not know after each examining session the IB publishes a subject report looking at the specific subject area and feedback from examiners on each of the examined parts of the syllabus. This...

This entry will be a little dry, as it really is just a list of key tips to help your students be more successful in their Independent Projects (IP) and Research Investigations. The assessment task...

This entry will be a little dry, as it really is just a list of key tips, to help you be more successful in your Independent Project (IP). The assessment task will be broken down...

Over the years I have written a large number of examiners reports. What is slightly depressing, but also inevitable, is that over that time they became quite repetitive. Put simply, every year students throw away...