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July 18, 2018
Hi Students, Often you can be stuck for inspiration and a design concept: you may have the constructive discontent but then reach a point where you are simply not inspired. At this point trying to...
July 16, 2018
I have received some questions about the Comparative Study from visual arts students. I can obviously answer them individually, but it might be more useful to others if I share the questions – and my...
July 13, 2018
Formaldehyde was recently in the news … But more of this later. To start with, you may be asking, what is formaldehyde? Formaldehyde is the non-UPAC name for methanal, CH2O, the simplest of all aldehydes....
July 11, 2018
All philosophies tend towards the same goal: the acquisition of wisdom, be it through transcendental meditation, spiritual contemplation or rational investigation. In a world open to all sorts of false claims, dangerous reinterpretations and approximations...
July 9, 2018
It seems that recently, my tech and education reading has been full of information and opinions about AI, Machine Learning and Robots. In this post I present you with a collection of articles exploring how...
July 6, 2018
In his 1910 doctoral thesis entitled Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) argued against the received quantifying method of dividing time into countable units which ignored...
July 4, 2018
A week or so ago I stumbled across an article on the BBC website talking about isomers of water. At first, I thought a mistake had been made and that the article should have used...
June 27, 2018
Newton is such a giant in the history of Maths and Physics that it isn’t really possible to do him justice in a short blog post. The basic facts first. Newton was born in Lincolnshire,...
June 25, 2018
Below are a series of wonderful examples of the use of sustainable design in its many forms to get students juices flowing in terms of ideas to inspire them: 1) PET lamps weave textile traditions...
June 22, 2018
Assuming that you’re on this site because you’re interested in the kind of reading and writing that your literature and language courses may or may not involve, these three (or maybe more) blog entries will...
June 18, 2018
The most important thing for students to do is to choose a straightforward, answerable question on a suitable topic. The Subject Avoid ‘well worn paths’. There is little new that you could add to our...
June 18, 2018
Although Biomimicry is not set within the Design Technology IB syllabus…I always utilise it as a wonderful way to add inspiration to a specific project as part of a design brief. It hopefully gives students...