Dick Sblog

There’s an interesting discussion going on in ZD Net’s forum pages about the use of Google Apps in schools. For those of you not familiar with this bit of the Googlempire, it’s an online suite of applications that can be accessed on an anytime/from anywhere basis via a browser: it was one of the first [...]

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Starting on World AIDS Day on 1 December, the World Community Grid will sponsor a month-long challenge via its FightAIDS@home project, with the goal of increasing the number of computers and computer cycles available to researchers conducting HIV/AIDS research. At the laboratory of Arthur Olson in the molecular biology department at The Scripps Research Institute [...]

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The European Schoolnet has recently produced an interesting brochure on iClass, a system developed to support self regulated personalised learning. Behind this term is “what teachers have always been trying to achieve in schools: motivate the learners by empowering them, teaching them how to make meaningful choices and reflect on them.
The iClass system translates the [...]

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I’m always entertained by peoples’ differing views of what’s valuable in the application of science and technology. For me, this is best illustrated by the resurgence of civil nuclear power in the UK. With the increasing dependency on overseas energy and the entirely [in my opinion] justified concerns about climate change, nuclear power is being [...]

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Last week I attended a consultation meeting held by e-Skills UK to look at issues relating to the ICT GCSE curriculum. The participants were a mix of awarding bodies and businesses – most of the latter were big corporates. I’m part of a two person company.  The focus of the meeting was about engaging businesses [...]

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