John Giles looks at the implications of upcoming reforms to the ICT curriculum Read More

Click here to read Part 1 of the lesson plan! We left the first lesson at the stage of near completion of the GUI. The focus of this second session is to add some functionality, making the picture appear/disappear, but for the more able student other functions of the… Read More

The Ebola outbreak in western Africa has been making headlines for the last few months. Help your secondary science students understand the science and history behind the spread of disease with this great article on pandemic diseases throughout history. Plus there are ideas for classwork, links for reading around the subject and examples of relevant syllabus content. Read More

Engage your Biology students with this lesson plan centred on the topical issue of Ash Dieback disease Read More

The intention of this session is to move the students on to using code to create events, in this case programming buttons to make a calculator, although once the basic principles are mastered, there are other opportunities which the students could investigate. Arrangements needed prior to the lesson 1. Students… Read More

Introduce your ICT students to basic programming with this lesson plan based on the Visual Basic application Read More

Click here to read Part 1 of the lesson plan! We left the first lesson at the stage of near completion of the GUI. The focus of this second session is to add some functionality, making the picture appear/disappear, but for the more able student other functions of the… Read More

Following the theme of my previous blog, I’ve been mining seams of statistics.  There certainly seems to be a problem in recruiting suitable talent to work in the IT industry, the Office for National Statistics figures show current vacancies hovering around 26 to 30 thousand each month over the last… Read More

Well, Moses has descended and we have listened; the problem is what does he mean? We have the commandments, “Thou shall honour thy computing”, “Thou shall not worship false idols such as IT or even ICT”. We might like these commandments, but how do we make a religion from them?… Read More