Mumbai is dirty! There are piles of refuse and waste littering the streets, the waterways are black and their banks littered with plastic. Its Hot, sweaty, smelly and crowded. There seems to be no plan in how the city has developed.
Mumbai is a city of contrast, with extremes from “wow!! to whoa!?”. From poverty to [...]
My time in Mumbai has been frantic. Over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I ran 12 one and half hour long sessions on the ITGS syllabus and assessments. It was intensive, demanding and immensely beneficial.
I frequently refer to Dale’s learning cone in my presentations and consider it as I teach, but this workshop reinforced the accuracy [...]
Wow, what a month. I am sitting rather comfortably in the lounge at Auckland Airport waiting for the first leg of my flight to Mumbai, India.
The last two weeks have been filled with preparing the 12 x 1.5 hour sessions for the workshop I am running. I had thought that my knowledge of the IB [...]
Part of the IB ITGS course is examining the role of AI, Robotics and Autonomous system.
Students are asked to engage in discussion and debate about the social and ethical issues arrising from these technologies and there impact on society. Here are two great articles for starting this debate.
1. Autonomous tech ‘requires debate’
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology [...]
Yesterdays sessions split into our program areas as well as the morning together. The first one and 1/2 days sessions were very insightful as one of tasks we undertook was tracing through all three programmes (PYP, MYP and DP). We looked at the progression between the different common aspects of the courses. In our groups [...]
One of the aspects that I have found most useful about this course so far is the emphasis on Adult education. One part we looked at today was some of the chatractoristics of adult learners. These are quite different in many ways to student learners. Here is my take on some of the:
Adults are self [...]
Well getting to the WSL (Workshop Leaders Course) was interesting. Singapore Airlines service was excellent, but before we even got on the plane we had an adventure. The steward gets on to the PA as we are all crowded into the lounge and announces….
“The flight has been delayed as the engineers have found a crack [...]
