Tag: DFEY
5 posts
Be Passionate and Determined
26 July 2014
This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge Be Passionate and Determined? I can think of three things that embody this: Scouting access for an unclimbed Mountain in Kyrgzystan: Undocumented location, undocumented transport logistics, undocumented passport logistics, undocumented human logistics (who? language? make friends with them?) With only 10 days to […]
Remembering being taught Applied ICT at A Level
Remembering being taught Applied ICT at A Level
14 November 2011
I recently noticed that I got quoted in The Information Age, at the beginning of the year due to the UK Cyber Security Challenge.: "Tim Dobson, a 20-year-old university student, does not remember his IT A-level course fondly. “In one lesson, our teacher asked us how to find the YouTube website,” he recalled. Dobson added […]
A tribute to Richard Rothwell
A tribute to Richard Rothwell
22 July 2009
Many reading my blog will not have heard the name Richard Rothwell and thus will have very little idea of his significance in the early days of DFEY. I first encountered Richard, like many others, via the Schoolforge-uk (SF-UK) mailing list, with his posts on free software and LTSP related subjects. Ben Webb and I, […]
What is the most useful thing you will do towards a future career when you're young?
What is the most useful thing you will do towards a future career when you're young?
18 May 2009
This XKCD cartoon strangely captures essence of most of my complaints with the way ICT and technical subjects are taught in schools. For me, it was a extensive number of weekends trying to make various different project work and multiple evenings getting to know the right people in the tech industry – thanks to the […]
HOWTO help children imagine they are at home *OR* HOWTO setup a home computer like they are at school (for adults)
HOWTO help children imagine they are at home *OR* HOWTO setup a home computer like they are at school (for adults)
3 December 2008
I recently spotted a message to the BECTA Safetynet Mailing list from Miles Berry and Terry Freedman. The message mentioned how they are doing a presentation at BETTS conference in January (apparently some big education conference thingy!) and since they are doing it on What are your kids learning when you're not looking? where they […]
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