TESS Article

Tom Conlon (TESS article) is more restrained than he usually is and some of his points are valid.  There are lilkely to be security issues.  Some teachers will ignore the benefits. But unfortunately TESS has chosen to air the views of somebody who for as long as I can remember has been negative about ICT in Scottish schools.

TESS should be told of the buzz there is amongst classroom teachers who experience Glow and of the learning taking place when pupils use Glow – Jaye Richards’ research.  Just today the Making Connections event in Dundee really hummed with enthusiasm.  There is no doubt in my
mind that in the long and short run ICT such as Glow will play an important role in education here in Scotland. 

 

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Financial Crisis

It is no surprise to me that the banks are failing to pass on interest rate cuts to their customers.  The people who landed us in the present mess are still mostly in post today.  They are still motivated by short term goals, themselves first, the shareholders including many of them second and customers a long way last.  They do not have the acumen to see that this strategy will harm everyone and prolong any depression we go through.  They fail to realise that their shareholders live in the world which their actions are damaging and that minor dividend increases and rebuilding of asset bases will be totally negated by the business failures the banks themselves contribute to.

The economic model the banks believe in has already been swept away by the government interventions both here, in Europe and the USA.

Something that very few commentators have noticed is how the cash and resource rich countries such as China, India, Russia and the Arab states are taking this opportunity to increase their influence within Western economies.

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