Welcome to the pedagogical site of Nigel Ward, teacher of ICT, integrated science and physics at the European School 3 in Brussels, Belgium.

I have made this site to help my students in their various classes - use the pull-down menus above or the table of contents to navigate through the hundreds of pages here. Or use this Google search:

This is not an official school site.

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The topic of our 2010 'Topoi' project was 'Illusions'. About 130 of my ICT students of all language sections have addressed the question of whether technological 'progress' is really more of an illusion. The negative side effects of so-called 'advances' in technology can be blamed for many of the worst problems faced by mankind and planet Earth in 2010, such as global warming, acid rain, ozone layer damage, unemployment and the threat of nuclear oblivion. Is it possible that our technological 'advances' are actually causing more harm than good?

The students (in years s1 to s5) participated in on-line discussions, the transcripts of which can be seen HERE using the name 'student' and the password which has been communicated to all my students. To supplement the central question of whether technological progress is an illusion the students also discussed many controversial issues related to technology such as:

Please visit our online discussion forums and see how our students feel about technology. You can even contribute your own comments by sending them to me at
nigel.ward-at-eeb3.be !

REVOLUTION!

The topic of our 2009 'Topoi' project was 'revolution'. The most revolutionary change in our lives is likely to be the integration of computer technology and the human brain. It is estimated that computers will exceed the capacity of the human brain in about 2029, in less than twenty years. Paralleling the rapid advance in computer science, neuroscience is expected to progress to the extent that in twenty years' time it may be possible to read all our thoughts, and thus all our mind. Combining these advances we can predict that it may be possible to transfer a human mind to a computer. The implications would be enormous - nothing less than immortality for the human mind (could we still call it human?) and vastly-enhanced thinking abilities. Of course this is all highly controversial and clearly has a dark side...