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Covid-19 and the World of the Digitally Disadvantaged
Adjusting to life at the moment can be hard, for many they can turn to the internet, face time, news, online entertainment, statistics etc. A world outside at our fingertips. For some however this isnt an option as they dont have the technology or means to buy it. Bridging the gap to the Digitally Disadvantaged…
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Taking Scouting OnLine – 1st YouTube Scout Group
With all that is going on in the world a the moment everyone is thinking outside the box to work differently and interact virtually. As some of you may have seen from some of my posts I spend some of my free time as a Scout Leader providing experiences and opportunities to young people. Now…
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3 Resources for Entertaining your Children whilst Working from Home
In these unprecidented times everyone who can is staying at home. Firstly a big thank you to all those essential front line staff our Health Services and those key workers that keep the country working and support the national infrastructures around the world. With Schools closed and Working From Home (WFH) becoming a normality for…
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STEM Activity 2018-19
Having just received my STEM Badge for 2018/19, I was very pleased to be awarded a “30 Hours of Engagement” badge. Over the year I have visited schools, events and other youth organisations such as Scouts to promote STEM, run and take part in activities and show why STEM subjects are important for young people…
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The Distraction of our Digital Eyes
As the world evolves our need to consume information grows at an exponential rate. Since the advent of the screen our for appetite for smaller, better screens to display information has increased. Developments in Virtual and Augmented Reality have provided a way of displaying information in different formats. We have in recent times been distracted by…
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Sageous Advice from Daily Stoics
Furthering my Personal Journalling I have decided that for 2020 I would give the “Daily Stoic” book and journal a go. I am doing this along side my normal daily journaling and keeping the two separate for now at least. I’m up to Journal number 28 with 4380 pages written so far and still going…
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Personal Knowledge Management System – Revised for 2020
As the new year has begun, its time to review my Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS) on how I consume information and knowledge, I have blogged about this before and have updated for 2020. I still split and keep apart my personal and professional lives on Social Media, although occasionally they may cross where appropriate.…
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Knowledge Fit for 2020
Here we are at the start of 2020 and the time of many New Years resolutions and good intentions. A good proportion of these will be about dieting and getting fit, but what about getting a learning plan for the new year and boosting your knowledge. Depending on your life, career path this can be…
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Six Lessons on Bouncing Back
Occasionally I have written about supporting STEM and Scouting in my blog around computing and science, however this piece from Bear Grylls in the Times newspaper in response to a Young Peoples survey has swayed me to write about it. At a recent Scout meeting the context of this survey was explained to the Scouts,…
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A night at the Museum – Late Session
I recently had the opportunity to help run a stand at one of the Science Museum in London, Lates sessions with some colleagues. The topic of the table was “Privacy vs National Security”. This was a drop in table to provoke discussion around this topic. The main point of this topic was to engage with the…
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Max Hemingway 