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The airline industry were amongst the first to use simulations for learning. At Asian Aerospace today, I asked 3 of the simulator exhibitors to give me a fly, but they politely refused. Damn – it would have been a lot of fun: One of the exhibitors was showing this scenario-based simulation for military training: Learning [...]

It wasn’t all about the military at Asian Aerospace today. The Airbus A380 was there – an impressive piece of machinery: And in the flesh, sporting the livery of Singapore Airlines (when SIA finally get one, it will be the world’s first in service): These guys were enjoying the airshow. The show didn’t work all [...]

The Asian Aerospace / Asian Defence Technology event at Changi today was more disturbing than enjoyable. What is it with this crazy world? Governments and revolutionaires are willing to pay billions for incredibly sophisticated weapons. If the wealthy countries (especially the US) took only 10% of what they spend on military hardware and spent it [...]

Passwords are driving me nuts. Let’s see how many I’ve got – all with different passwords: Intranet at work Email × 5 accounts Student system × 2 Forums × 4 Servers × 5 Banks × 4 Other financial institutions × 3 Google accounts × 3 Yahoo account Airlines × 3 (frequent flyer, etc) Plagiarism company [...]

You may have noticed the recent inclusion of Google ads on this site (and also on Interactive Mathematics). One of the first things I had to do was filter out undesirable ads. Those for paper mills (sites that sell essays to students, like ExampleEssays.com), just had to go.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between plagiarism and cheating. Cheating is a deliberate attempt to mislead, but plagiarism may or may not have an evil intent. Often, it is just due to ignorance about how to properly reference sources. But a key issue is why plagiarism occurs in the first place. Often, [...]

Errors suddenly appeared on this blog in the last day or so. Precondition Failed We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for [...] on this server. This error was only affecting IE users. It turns out the problem was the anti-spam plugin for WordPress called “Bad Behaviour”. I have disabled the plugin and [...]

Squidoo is an interesting knowledge management concept. It is similar to Wikipedia in that anyone can contribute, but it is different in that there can be several pages (called “lenses” in Squidoo-speak) on each topic. Squidoo is an interesting place to explore. You will come across the current most popular topics (“sushi”, “cartoons”, “online poker” [...]

Quote from a TERC (Technical Education Research Centers) Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (1989) Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) in math teaching: “In reality, no one can teach mathematics. Effective teachers are those who can stimulate students to learn mathematics. Educational research offers compelling evidence that students [...]

The Americans continue to worry about the state of their nation – especially what it means for the future with China and India experiencing rapid growth. Some gems from a USA Today article: a Raytheon Corporation survey of 1,000 11-to-13-year-olds released last month found that 84% said they would “rather clean their room, eat their [...]